Friends and family!!
Well this week was filled with transfers! Elder Chan got safe and
sound to the lake Otis ward and I got my new companion! Elder vaioa!
He is from Samoa and from the island I served on! He is soooo funny
and we have the best time together and I've learned so much Samoan
from him. So one cool thing is he served in Samoa for a bit while he
was waiting for his visa and he knows my trainer and other
missionaries and it's super cool! While transfers were going we got to
have elder Judd come and stay with us for a night and so that was
pretty fun to catch up with him!
So one really cool thing that I forgot to mention in my last email was
I finished the Book of Mormon for the 3rd time on my mission! It's
weird to think that because if you knew me before the mission you
would know that you couldn't pay to read a book haha! So it was a cool
little accomplishment and my goal is two more times! But I know it's
true and there's now way it can't be. And if you question if it is...
READ IT! I'm grateful for the knowledge it gives us and it just makes
everything make sense!
We have a new investigator we are teaching and His name is tommy isaia
and his wife is a member and most of his family! He was a former
investigator and a couple weeks ago we went over and just tried to
visit him and he let us in and we taught him he restoration and then
last Monday night we had another lesson with him and we read the Book
of Mormon with him. He reads it on his own and always tells us how he
is just looking for the truth and he thinks he might have found it!
Haha so it's been super cool to teach him and help him find the truth!
The struggle we run into with him is he works all week including all
day Sunday so we are going to help him understand the importance of
church.
And well I don't know how it is in Utah but out here there is so much
snow! It's been snowing the last couple days and the snow plows are
staying busy for sure!
And well that's some of the highlights of the week! Thank you for all
that you do for me! Stay safe everyone and always remember CPR!
(C-Church P-Pray R-Read) to keep yourself alive you need to do those
things!
Alma 37:37
Counsel with the Lord in all thy doings, and he will direct thee for
good; yea, when thou liest down at night lie down unto the Lord, that
he may watch over you in your sleep; and when thou risest in the
morning let thy heart be full of thanks unto God; and if ye do these
things, ye shall be lifted up at the last day.
Love, Elder Tyler John Fawson
#1- we found this cool snow fort thingy with stairs
#2- SNOW!
#3-4- some moose we found a but ago but I didn't send the pictures!
Monday, February 27, 2017
Friends and family!
Well this week was full of tons of cool news! So first off we got
transfer calls and elder Chan Is leaving to the lake Otis Samoan ward
and I'm staying and getting elder vaioa! I haven't really met him but
he hasn't been out too long and is hilarious and awesome from what
everyone says so I'm excited!
On Friday we had zone meeting and it went really good! So something
really cool is church headquarters has made some changes to the
missionary schedule. So they basically leave it up to you how you want
to schedule it. Basically you are given the times of how long you need
to do certain things but you can schedule them however you want. It's
pretty cool! So between 6:30 and 10 you have to do an hour of personal
study and a half hour to plan your day! And we don't plan at night
anymore. So you just have to get those done anytime between those
hours! And then p day is a little longer! That was probably really
confusing and you probably don't think it's that big of a deal.... but
ITS A BIG DEAL! Haha
But also at zone meeting we talked about ether 12:27 and going through
trials and tribulations. If you haven't seen it I invite all you to go
watch the "bearing our burdens with hope" Mormon message. We all have
trials and hard things to go through but our trials and burdens are
what help us become who god knows we can become. So keep enduring and
soon you'll see change!
This week we went on exchanges with the Spanish elders and I actually
went to the Spanish ward for a day and it was really cool! I was with
elder henderson who has been out 6 weeks now so it was really fun!
He's so funny! We had a really cool experience teaching this lady
about the plan of salvation. She had just lost her friend to suicide
and her husband was going through some hard things and she thought it
was perfect! It was cool to see the comfort she felt when we taught it
to her!
And well we did lots of oyming and visiting former investigators this
week! And I think that's a little bit of our week for you guys! Thanks
for everything you all do for me! Love you guys!
Love, Elder Tyler John Fawson
Picture #1 so elder Chan and I were walking back from a house and
getting back in the truck and he slipped and fell in the snow and I
took a picture of it! Haha I'm such a good companion! And then he was
getting in and slipped and fell again! Haha it was funny for me to
watch but not for elder Chan!
Picture #2 I'm gonna miss elder Chan!!
Well this week was full of tons of cool news! So first off we got
transfer calls and elder Chan Is leaving to the lake Otis Samoan ward
and I'm staying and getting elder vaioa! I haven't really met him but
he hasn't been out too long and is hilarious and awesome from what
everyone says so I'm excited!
On Friday we had zone meeting and it went really good! So something
really cool is church headquarters has made some changes to the
missionary schedule. So they basically leave it up to you how you want
to schedule it. Basically you are given the times of how long you need
to do certain things but you can schedule them however you want. It's
pretty cool! So between 6:30 and 10 you have to do an hour of personal
study and a half hour to plan your day! And we don't plan at night
anymore. So you just have to get those done anytime between those
hours! And then p day is a little longer! That was probably really
confusing and you probably don't think it's that big of a deal.... but
ITS A BIG DEAL! Haha
But also at zone meeting we talked about ether 12:27 and going through
trials and tribulations. If you haven't seen it I invite all you to go
watch the "bearing our burdens with hope" Mormon message. We all have
trials and hard things to go through but our trials and burdens are
what help us become who god knows we can become. So keep enduring and
soon you'll see change!
This week we went on exchanges with the Spanish elders and I actually
went to the Spanish ward for a day and it was really cool! I was with
elder henderson who has been out 6 weeks now so it was really fun!
He's so funny! We had a really cool experience teaching this lady
about the plan of salvation. She had just lost her friend to suicide
and her husband was going through some hard things and she thought it
was perfect! It was cool to see the comfort she felt when we taught it
to her!
And well we did lots of oyming and visiting former investigators this
week! And I think that's a little bit of our week for you guys! Thanks
for everything you all do for me! Love you guys!
Love, Elder Tyler John Fawson
Picture #1 so elder Chan and I were walking back from a house and
getting back in the truck and he slipped and fell in the snow and I
took a picture of it! Haha I'm such a good companion! And then he was
getting in and slipped and fell again! Haha it was funny for me to
watch but not for elder Chan!
Picture #2 I'm gonna miss elder Chan!!
Friends and family!
Well I guess first off happy New Years everyone! I hope you all had a
great holiday season! I can officially say I come home this year so
that's a bit weird to get used to.
This week we got to have zone conference and it was really good! There
was some really good trainings and I learned a lot. We talked a lot
about obedience, caring for your companion, staying focused and being
the light! We are all as members of the church the light to the world.
We need to all be ready and prepared to share the gospel with anybody
and well.. lighting the world with our actions!
We went on exchanges this week and I was with elder bacon again! I
served with him out in kodiak when I first got there so it was really
good to be with him again! We did a lot of street contacting and
talking to people!
This week we did a lot of oyming and trying former investigators. We
talked to tons of people downtown and well.. everywhere we could! We
didn't get to teach as much us we wanted to but we talked to tons of
people so it was good!
We got a referral for this lady and we went and tried to visit them
and a younger kid answered so we talked to him for a while and he
wasn't a member but was from Kansas and asked about Joseph smith so we
explained who He was and it went pretty good! Then his aunt came in
and she was actually someone we ran into at Walmart one time and she
said she wanted to come to our church but we lost her number so we
couldn't talk to her but god led us to her! So we got to talked to her
for a bit and so this week we hopefully will get to visit with them
more!
Overall it was pretty good! It still blows my mind it's 2017! Maybe we
all remember and keep our New Years resolutions! Haha love you all!
"I cannon never accomplished anything, I can try has wrought wonders."
Love, Elder Tyler John Fawson
Anchorage north zone
Top of a parking garage pics
Well I guess first off happy New Years everyone! I hope you all had a
great holiday season! I can officially say I come home this year so
that's a bit weird to get used to.
This week we got to have zone conference and it was really good! There
was some really good trainings and I learned a lot. We talked a lot
about obedience, caring for your companion, staying focused and being
the light! We are all as members of the church the light to the world.
We need to all be ready and prepared to share the gospel with anybody
and well.. lighting the world with our actions!
We went on exchanges this week and I was with elder bacon again! I
served with him out in kodiak when I first got there so it was really
good to be with him again! We did a lot of street contacting and
talking to people!
This week we did a lot of oyming and trying former investigators. We
talked to tons of people downtown and well.. everywhere we could! We
didn't get to teach as much us we wanted to but we talked to tons of
people so it was good!
We got a referral for this lady and we went and tried to visit them
and a younger kid answered so we talked to him for a while and he
wasn't a member but was from Kansas and asked about Joseph smith so we
explained who He was and it went pretty good! Then his aunt came in
and she was actually someone we ran into at Walmart one time and she
said she wanted to come to our church but we lost her number so we
couldn't talk to her but god led us to her! So we got to talked to her
for a bit and so this week we hopefully will get to visit with them
more!
Overall it was pretty good! It still blows my mind it's 2017! Maybe we
all remember and keep our New Years resolutions! Haha love you all!
"I cannon never accomplished anything, I can try has wrought wonders."
Love, Elder Tyler John Fawson
Anchorage north zone
Top of a parking garage pics
Friends and family!
Well MERRY CHRISTMAS Everyone! I hope you all had an awesome Christmas!
This week was awesome for us! We got to visit lots of people and
invite them to our ward party and church on Sunday and most of them
came! I feel like maybe it was because we told them it was only
sacrament meeting on Christmas! Haha
We had our ward party on Friday and it went super good. There were
TONS of people that showed up! We of course had tons of food then they
did some dance performances and it was so good! The Samoan wards know
how to party!!
So Christmas Eve was probably one of the coolest and funniest times of
my mission! So us and some other missionaries decided to go out carol!
So we all met at the chapel at 7pm and if turned into a mini football
game somehow haha! But them we went to a couple of house and carolled
and it went super good and so we decided hey let's go do this
downtown! We will walk around and sing! So we all went downtown and
start just singing "angels we had heard on high" and "come all ye
faithful" to random people on the streets and then a bar called us in
and we all sang to them! Then... the next door restaurant called us in
to sing for them! It was seriously the best thing ever! It made so
many people smile so hopefully we made a difference in some people's
lives! And that's the super awesome Christmas Eve story! I'll send the
video of us singing in the parking garage after we were done!
Christmas was really awesome! It was so good to talk to my family! One
1 more skype day left so that's pretty weird!
Well I guess that's a little bit of our Christmas week for you guys! I
hope you all have a great week and I'm grateful for all of you. And
I'm grateful for my savior and his love. He is the reason for season
and he is the reason why we are who we are and how we can become who
god wants us to become!
Love, Elder Tyler John Fawson
Well MERRY CHRISTMAS Everyone! I hope you all had an awesome Christmas!
This week was awesome for us! We got to visit lots of people and
invite them to our ward party and church on Sunday and most of them
came! I feel like maybe it was because we told them it was only
sacrament meeting on Christmas! Haha
We had our ward party on Friday and it went super good. There were
TONS of people that showed up! We of course had tons of food then they
did some dance performances and it was so good! The Samoan wards know
how to party!!
So Christmas Eve was probably one of the coolest and funniest times of
my mission! So us and some other missionaries decided to go out carol!
So we all met at the chapel at 7pm and if turned into a mini football
game somehow haha! But them we went to a couple of house and carolled
and it went super good and so we decided hey let's go do this
downtown! We will walk around and sing! So we all went downtown and
start just singing "angels we had heard on high" and "come all ye
faithful" to random people on the streets and then a bar called us in
and we all sang to them! Then... the next door restaurant called us in
to sing for them! It was seriously the best thing ever! It made so
many people smile so hopefully we made a difference in some people's
lives! And that's the super awesome Christmas Eve story! I'll send the
video of us singing in the parking garage after we were done!
Christmas was really awesome! It was so good to talk to my family! One
1 more skype day left so that's pretty weird!
Well I guess that's a little bit of our Christmas week for you guys! I
hope you all have a great week and I'm grateful for all of you. And
I'm grateful for my savior and his love. He is the reason for season
and he is the reason why we are who we are and how we can become who
god wants us to become!
Love, Elder Tyler John Fawson
Friends and family!
Well everyone I hope you had a great week! We had a nice and cold week up here!
Tuesday we went to a big community service thing at the Sullivan arena
here and it was basically helping to give out food and presents all
day for Christmas! It was really cool and we got to talk to tons of
people as we went through the line with them. Then on Friday afternoon
we went and helped and member move some stuff to a new house. We moved
a matress and box spring, a couple dressers, a big couch,
entertainment cabinet and some other stuff in one load with 3 Nissan
frontiers.. so you can imagine how creative we got to load it all up!
On Wednesday we got the opportunity to go to the temple and that was
awesome it was my first time in a little while so it was good to be
back!
We got to teach one of our investigators Natasha this week and so just
a little backstory with her she grew up Jewish so she doesn't believe
in Jesus Christ or the New Testament or anything but it's been
interesting teaching her and helping her learn who he is. She is open
to learning and she is beginning to grow in her testimony so that's
good!
One new thing we tried this week was calling just random people in our
contacts that we didn't know and it's been interesting but also we
have found some people from it! In fact we called a family and they
aren't members. It they are coming back up in January and said they
want to learn more about the church! It was super cool!
On Sunday our talks went really good! I talked about ways we can put
Christ in Christmas! I talked about doing service, showing gratitude,
and being together with family. It's crazy to me that Christmas is so
soon! It feels like it was a month ago we had Christmas! Times flies!
I hope you all have a merry Christmas and remember to put Christ in
Christmas! I'm thankful for all of your and your examples to me. I'm
thankful for my savior and everything he has done for me. And I'm
excited to skype home on Sunday also! And I'm grateful for Skype too!
Haha
I love you all and merry Christmas 🎄🎁
Love, Elder Tyler John Fawson
Well everyone I hope you had a great week! We had a nice and cold week up here!
Tuesday we went to a big community service thing at the Sullivan arena
here and it was basically helping to give out food and presents all
day for Christmas! It was really cool and we got to talk to tons of
people as we went through the line with them. Then on Friday afternoon
we went and helped and member move some stuff to a new house. We moved
a matress and box spring, a couple dressers, a big couch,
entertainment cabinet and some other stuff in one load with 3 Nissan
frontiers.. so you can imagine how creative we got to load it all up!
On Wednesday we got the opportunity to go to the temple and that was
awesome it was my first time in a little while so it was good to be
back!
We got to teach one of our investigators Natasha this week and so just
a little backstory with her she grew up Jewish so she doesn't believe
in Jesus Christ or the New Testament or anything but it's been
interesting teaching her and helping her learn who he is. She is open
to learning and she is beginning to grow in her testimony so that's
good!
One new thing we tried this week was calling just random people in our
contacts that we didn't know and it's been interesting but also we
have found some people from it! In fact we called a family and they
aren't members. It they are coming back up in January and said they
want to learn more about the church! It was super cool!
On Sunday our talks went really good! I talked about ways we can put
Christ in Christmas! I talked about doing service, showing gratitude,
and being together with family. It's crazy to me that Christmas is so
soon! It feels like it was a month ago we had Christmas! Times flies!
I hope you all have a merry Christmas and remember to put Christ in
Christmas! I'm thankful for all of your and your examples to me. I'm
thankful for my savior and everything he has done for me. And I'm
excited to skype home on Sunday also! And I'm grateful for Skype too!
Haha
I love you all and merry Christmas 🎄🎁
Love, Elder Tyler John Fawson
Thursday, December 8, 2016
Samoan again!
Friends and family!
Well this week was awesome! It was so busy that I feel like we didn't
have much downtime at all! So we flew in to anchorage Monday around
noonish so I spent the day with the dimond elders and we went and
played basketball with the zone and it was so fun! It's so fun to be
around and play basketball with missionaries now! Then I spent Tuesday
in a trio with them too and elder palmer said bye to everyone and he
got ready to leave. Wednesday was super busy. It was transfer day! We
got to have elder tuimoloau spend the day with us! (For all those who
don't remember who that is... it's my companion that I trained and it
was so good to see him again!) we dropped elder palmer off and took
some other elders to the airport! Elder tuimoloau was transferred to
Fairbanks! A Samoan in Fairbanks! Haha
So on like Tuesday night we were at the chapel where northern lights
meets for mutual and I got to see everyone and it was so cool to see
them again! It was cool to just see that they remembered me and
everything! All the youth yelled elder Fawson and came and said when I
walked in the gym! It was so cool!
Its super cool to come back to the Samoan ward! I love it! It feels
like home! So there are 3 Samoan wards here in anchorage. (Northern
lights, dimond, and lake Otis) and I am in the dimond ward now! Elder
chan is so fetching awesome! He just barely finished his training and
is ready to work! He was raised in American Samoa but recently lived
in California! The ward is really awesome too! So we cover downtown
anchorage and a lot more! If you look on a map it's basically
everything west of the Seward highway. It's a huge area and did I
mention it's really cold? Haha
Thursday it snowed here so to kick off the Christmas initiative with
some service we went and shoveled drive ways with some other
missionaries! We got to meet lots of people and hopefully helped them!
Friday night our ward did a missionary fireside and it went really
awesome! So basically it was centered on the plan of salvation
questions. (Where did I come from? Why am I here? And where am I
going?) and they decorated 3 rooms for each question and did a little
rotation thing and a 15 min lesson or so in each one then a little
video at the end. And don't forget about all the awesome food at the
end!! We got teach the why are we here room and it went really good!
Sadly there was only one non member there but it showed the ward that
things like this are possible and work!
It's so fun to serve back here in anchorage with the Samoan people! I
love it here and I love my companion! Thanks for everything you do for
me!
"Get on your knees and pray, then get on your feet and work."
Love, Elder Tyler Fawson
Setting up for our fireside!
Elder chan!!
The elders serving in northern lights now!
Well this week was awesome! It was so busy that I feel like we didn't
have much downtime at all! So we flew in to anchorage Monday around
noonish so I spent the day with the dimond elders and we went and
played basketball with the zone and it was so fun! It's so fun to be
around and play basketball with missionaries now! Then I spent Tuesday
in a trio with them too and elder palmer said bye to everyone and he
got ready to leave. Wednesday was super busy. It was transfer day! We
got to have elder tuimoloau spend the day with us! (For all those who
don't remember who that is... it's my companion that I trained and it
was so good to see him again!) we dropped elder palmer off and took
some other elders to the airport! Elder tuimoloau was transferred to
Fairbanks! A Samoan in Fairbanks! Haha
So on like Tuesday night we were at the chapel where northern lights
meets for mutual and I got to see everyone and it was so cool to see
them again! It was cool to just see that they remembered me and
everything! All the youth yelled elder Fawson and came and said when I
walked in the gym! It was so cool!
Its super cool to come back to the Samoan ward! I love it! It feels
like home! So there are 3 Samoan wards here in anchorage. (Northern
lights, dimond, and lake Otis) and I am in the dimond ward now! Elder
chan is so fetching awesome! He just barely finished his training and
is ready to work! He was raised in American Samoa but recently lived
in California! The ward is really awesome too! So we cover downtown
anchorage and a lot more! If you look on a map it's basically
everything west of the Seward highway. It's a huge area and did I
mention it's really cold? Haha
Thursday it snowed here so to kick off the Christmas initiative with
some service we went and shoveled drive ways with some other
missionaries! We got to meet lots of people and hopefully helped them!
Friday night our ward did a missionary fireside and it went really
awesome! So basically it was centered on the plan of salvation
questions. (Where did I come from? Why am I here? And where am I
going?) and they decorated 3 rooms for each question and did a little
rotation thing and a 15 min lesson or so in each one then a little
video at the end. And don't forget about all the awesome food at the
end!! We got teach the why are we here room and it went really good!
Sadly there was only one non member there but it showed the ward that
things like this are possible and work!
It's so fun to serve back here in anchorage with the Samoan people! I
love it here and I love my companion! Thanks for everything you do for
me!
"Get on your knees and pray, then get on your feet and work."
Love, Elder Tyler Fawson
Setting up for our fireside!
Elder chan!!
The elders serving in northern lights now!
Monday, November 28, 2016
Transfers
So long Kodiak, hello Anchorage Samoan Ward!!!
Well this week was awesome! We got transfer calls this Friday and they
were surprising! Haha so I will be going back to the Samoan ward in
anchorage! Haha a different one though so that's good! My companion
will be elder chan and he is awesome! He just finished his training so
he's pretty new! But it will be exciting to go back to anchorage and
eat golden carol every night again! Haha but it is sad to leave kodiak
for sure! I have come to love so many of the people here! I'm so
grateful for the opportunity to serve here and help the work here! But
I am excited to serve around other missionaries again. It will be fun
to play ball with everyone again!
This week in kodiak we did so much service! We did some service for
someone everyday this week! We got to move a dresser, do some yard
work, cut some pipe, move some couches, desks, and tables! Haha it was
crazy! We definitely got our exercise in this week! Haha!
Thanksgiving was awesome this week! We got to spend time with tons of
different families and lots of food! And played some ping pong! Haha
Sorry I didn't have a lot of time this week to email because we fly
out this morning to anchorage but I'm grateful for all you guys and
everything you do for me!
D&C 6:36 Look unto me in every thought; doubt not, fear not.
Love, Elder Tyler Fawson
Happy thanksgiving!!
Some awesome families!! The blacks and morrisons!!
So long kodiak!
Lots of great memories!
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