Friday, September 25, 2009
Tyson's Missionary Moment Spot Light (thanks to Loie!)
To view this, click on the picture and you will be able to read it!!
Thursday, September 24, 2009
Tyson's update September 24 with photos!
Picture of the zone leaders, President and sister Murray and Elder and sister Lynn G. Robbins. Tyson is on the right side, on the end. On the right, Tyson and Elder Claussen. 
Love this picture! What a great smile!!
Well family this week was another good one.
I had the opportunity this Saturday to be a part of some personal training from Elder Lynn G Robins of the first quorum of the seventy. We held a Zone Leader Council where he gave us about a 4 hour training on a variety of subjects. It was one of the most fantastic things that I have had the opportunity to be a part of. Some of the things that we were trained on was the understanding that we as a church know the doctrine of having been given by God 100% Agency and we accept that. But what we often look over is that 100% Agency also equals 100% Responsibility. He spent three hours of the four training us on this so it is a little hard to relay that information to you as well in a quick email. But in short it was some the most important training I have received, not only for my mission but in every aspect of my life. He gave us examples of what people do as a reaction to avoiding responsibility. We came up with a list and after we wrote down the things we could come up with for possible ways to get out of responsibility, he wrote on top of that list " The Anti-Faith list". It was a pretty powerful lesson taught. O how I wish I could have all of you sit in a room and relay all that I learned so you could understand in portion what I learned. Sadly emails just won't do what I learned justice, but I hope you understand it in at least a small part. My mind was about to explode after that training session so that was great. So much to learn so little time.
Luckily we have had the great chance to train some other elders on it through exchanges and in a District Leader Training we held with our District leaders right before Zone Conference on Monday. So it has helped me to ingrain it into my mind a little deeper. So like I mentioned in a previous statement we had a Zone Conference on Monday afternoon. It was great, both President and Sister Murray gave training, as well as Sister and Elder Robins. So as a Zone Leader I was just able to sit back and learn as much as possible. Again the statement rings true so much to learn so little time. It was great the spirit testified of the truth of what was being taught to all of us that evening. Directly after that we went straight to some exchanges with some other elders. (Exchanges are where we as missionaries go to another elders area and give some training and see how we can help them). We have been running around like crazy this past week, it has been great.
Well family I believe that is all I have for you this week.
P.S. worldly note it was sad to hear the Utes and cougs lost to teams outside the conference what a bummer.
Love you,
Elder Andrus
I had the opportunity this Saturday to be a part of some personal training from Elder Lynn G Robins of the first quorum of the seventy. We held a Zone Leader Council where he gave us about a 4 hour training on a variety of subjects. It was one of the most fantastic things that I have had the opportunity to be a part of. Some of the things that we were trained on was the understanding that we as a church know the doctrine of having been given by God 100% Agency and we accept that. But what we often look over is that 100% Agency also equals 100% Responsibility. He spent three hours of the four training us on this so it is a little hard to relay that information to you as well in a quick email. But in short it was some the most important training I have received, not only for my mission but in every aspect of my life. He gave us examples of what people do as a reaction to avoiding responsibility. We came up with a list and after we wrote down the things we could come up with for possible ways to get out of responsibility, he wrote on top of that list " The Anti-Faith list". It was a pretty powerful lesson taught. O how I wish I could have all of you sit in a room and relay all that I learned so you could understand in portion what I learned. Sadly emails just won't do what I learned justice, but I hope you understand it in at least a small part. My mind was about to explode after that training session so that was great. So much to learn so little time.
Luckily we have had the great chance to train some other elders on it through exchanges and in a District Leader Training we held with our District leaders right before Zone Conference on Monday. So it has helped me to ingrain it into my mind a little deeper. So like I mentioned in a previous statement we had a Zone Conference on Monday afternoon. It was great, both President and Sister Murray gave training, as well as Sister and Elder Robins. So as a Zone Leader I was just able to sit back and learn as much as possible. Again the statement rings true so much to learn so little time. It was great the spirit testified of the truth of what was being taught to all of us that evening. Directly after that we went straight to some exchanges with some other elders. (Exchanges are where we as missionaries go to another elders area and give some training and see how we can help them). We have been running around like crazy this past week, it has been great.
Well family I believe that is all I have for you this week.
P.S. worldly note it was sad to hear the Utes and cougs lost to teams outside the conference what a bummer.
Love you,
Elder Andrus
Sunday, September 20, 2009
Last of Summer - Alas!
My final pictures of Hailey and Gavin swimming (most likely) this summer! We had a great summer in the pool. Gavin just hangs out and loves kicking in the water.
Hailey is so fun. You can see here that she is swiming with Ariel. She has daddy flounder and baby flounder she likes to swim with also! What a riot.
Hailey is so fun. You can see here that she is swiming with Ariel. She has daddy flounder and baby flounder she likes to swim with also! What a riot.
Monday, September 14, 2009
Tyon's Update - 12 more weeks!
September 10, 2009
Well Family how are you this week?
Things are going great up here in Scranton. I thought I was going to wait till I knew for sure, but I will just let you know right now. I talked to President about two days ago. He said, that the thought process that this will be my last area was a little wrong. It looks like I will have one more transfer up here in Scranton and then for my last six week I will be put somewhere else and that is all I know. I am not sure I will be in leadership or not, but I will go where the Lord wants me to go. I will be receiving a new Companion and his name is E. Claussen. He came out with me in the MTC so that will be an exciting thing. We have been great friends since the start of our missions. I am excited to tear it up with him as Zone Leaders up here. But of course since we are the same mission age, you could not leave us both up here for the last transfer and then have a double vacancy for Zone Leaders. That is a little too much for someone to handle. So I will leave for the last six weeks. Now of course for those of you that know me I don’t really like to talk about compliments I receive and put myself up, but president told me something that I feel I could share with you. He told me that I was one of the anchors of the mission. That was an interesting thing for me to hear because I don’t really think of myself as such but I thought you would be interested to hear that as well. I'm sure that most of you have already thought this but it just struck me that I only have twelve more emails left. That is a crazy thought. Well on the secular news...wow BYU beat Oklahoma that is incredible! I'm glad to hear the Utes won as well. Well family I love all of you dearly and I thank you for your support. One commitment I will leave with all of you is to pray we can find someone that is ready to receive the fullness of the gospel and act on it. Also I will leave all of you to teach someone that is not a member of the church and teach them a restored truth and identify that it as a unique teaching to our church. For example the depth of the Atonement of Christ (Mosiah 3:7, Alma 7:11-12).
Well family I love you
Love,
Elder Andrus
Well Family how are you this week?
Things are going great up here in Scranton. I thought I was going to wait till I knew for sure, but I will just let you know right now. I talked to President about two days ago. He said, that the thought process that this will be my last area was a little wrong. It looks like I will have one more transfer up here in Scranton and then for my last six week I will be put somewhere else and that is all I know. I am not sure I will be in leadership or not, but I will go where the Lord wants me to go. I will be receiving a new Companion and his name is E. Claussen. He came out with me in the MTC so that will be an exciting thing. We have been great friends since the start of our missions. I am excited to tear it up with him as Zone Leaders up here. But of course since we are the same mission age, you could not leave us both up here for the last transfer and then have a double vacancy for Zone Leaders. That is a little too much for someone to handle. So I will leave for the last six weeks. Now of course for those of you that know me I don’t really like to talk about compliments I receive and put myself up, but president told me something that I feel I could share with you. He told me that I was one of the anchors of the mission. That was an interesting thing for me to hear because I don’t really think of myself as such but I thought you would be interested to hear that as well. I'm sure that most of you have already thought this but it just struck me that I only have twelve more emails left. That is a crazy thought. Well on the secular news...wow BYU beat Oklahoma that is incredible! I'm glad to hear the Utes won as well. Well family I love all of you dearly and I thank you for your support. One commitment I will leave with all of you is to pray we can find someone that is ready to receive the fullness of the gospel and act on it. Also I will leave all of you to teach someone that is not a member of the church and teach them a restored truth and identify that it as a unique teaching to our church. For example the depth of the Atonement of Christ (Mosiah 3:7, Alma 7:11-12).
Well family I love you
Love,
Elder Andrus
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