Yo so this week was actually really good! I did find out that I am going to central point zone, Medford 3rd ward this transfer though so that is a bummer but I will make it great!
It's crazy how this Bandon branch has become home to me and I really don't want to leave at all even though 6 weeks ago I was hoping I would be taken out of the area. Bandon is doing so well now! We found 3 new investigators this past week and several potentials that they will set appointments with next week. We have a good pool progressing and it's so awesome. 
Kim graves, a guy that Ybanez and I found has been having us over for lessons every week for like 8 weeks and he is so awesome and he will definitely be baptized! He told me yesterday at church that when he gets baptized he doesn't care where I am but he will have me baptize him and that I better call him every week! It was so awesome to see how I've been able to be a part of his life and conversion. 
Also Bob Barry is another guy that elder Nelson and I found and he is so awesome! We stopped by his house yesterday and said bye and dang I'm going to miss teaching him. I'm also going to call him weekly. 
The two hardest people to leave will definitely be the Talbots and the Youngs though! The Talbots are the senior couple in Bandon and they are like my mission grandparents! They would always take us out and they are like the nicest people ever. We are also going to stay in touch and I will probably stay in touch with them and visit them after! 
Then there's the Youngs.... They are literally like my family now. It is such a drag to leave them because we have become so close but I guess that's why transfers happen. I can't even describe in words how much of a blessing and testimony builder it has been to be a part of their lives and conversion. It was one of the best moments of my mission yesterday when both of them got up for fast and testimony meeting and gave their testimonies. Seriously so crazy. Really sucks to leave them but I will be back to visit them! 
It's so crazy to me still that I'm leaving this area that I have put so much effort into and come to love. At least my new area has an In n Out--the only one in the entire mission! lol. That's uplifting! Last transfer flew by so hopefully this one will be really good too and elder Baxter and I work well together. I'm Definitely going to miss elder Nelson!
Love You
Stay Solid 

Kim Graves

Brother Sturtevant

Elder Nelson and Elder & Sister Talbot

Medford Temple

                                                               

This week has actually been pretty good. We  got a good amount done and I have been pretty motivated throughout the week.  We taught probably close to 10 lessons which is pretty good for Bandon!  We have had some good meals too surprisingly! I have started to eat a lot more sea food and now I am not even close to as picky as I was before.  Church has been good. We either bless the sacrament, do one of the prayers or talk every Sunday lol. So being in a branch, you have to be way more involved!

We also had zone conference Wednesday so that was good. Zone conference was extremely long and it was only our zone since we are the biggest zone in the mission but it was awesome and motivating. I love president Lowery who is the 1st counselor in the mission presidency. He lived in my last ward so we used to go see him all the time and at conference he talked about working hard and not slacking! I really needed that because it's hard for me to be motivated sometimes and that really helped me!  

This week has been really good with our investigators though so that has been really exciting.  We have two new investigators and a third that is coming lol. We are teaching Kim graves and he is doing super well. We just had a lesson on baptism and he said he would pray about it. 
We are also teaching Mary Lou and she is doing really well and we will hopefully invite her to be baptized soon. 
Timmy and Cheyenne (Angela and Tim's kids) are both interested and want to meet with us. It's super cool. Angela brought two of her "grandkids" to church yesterday too! They are kids on Tim's football and baseball team and it was so awesome. 

My life is so weird, like I think about it all the time.  I haven't changed really other than I wouldn't do stupid stuff right now like I did before lol but this lifestyle is so difficult. Like I find myself just wanting to go do all sorts of stuff and it's so rough but there is good that comes from doing all of this too. 

Today we just got a call that elder Nelson is the designated driver so I'm pretty sure I will be transferred on Monday. That's a bummer but we will see what happens

Stay Solid 

So this week there were a couple cool things that happened. 

In order-- first on Friday we had ZTM in North Bend so we went up there and had a good meeting. The AP's came too and that was the first time seeing them down here in a while. It was a good meeting though and the zone leaders did a good job. It is nice to not be a district leader anymore and not have to talk in any conferences or trainings. 

Saturday was the cranberry festival and Angela's baptism. So the cranberry festival is the biggest day in all of Bandon lol. It's just a huge festival and people come from all around to hang out and buy a bunch of stuff. It was pretty cool because we walked around like all day and OYM'd (open your mouth) people and had a good time. Elder Nelson also bought a bonsai tree.... I don't think he understands the whole concept of moving every month or two lol. 

That night was Angela's baptism and it was so awesome! She was so excited and it went so well! Tim was so nervous to baptize her but he did so well! So many other missionaries are so stoked because she has been seeing missionaries for 3 years and now we finally got it done.  They felt the spirit so strong and both of their kids came and felt the spirit too! Their son asked if he could take the lessons too so that was awesome! We already see their daughter pretty often since she lives at home and she loves us haha. Sunday Angela was confirmed and standing in on that was so awesome too! It was so cool to see all of the work that we all put in and how much it all meant to her!  So that was all awesome! 

Other than that, all of our investigators are doing well and we are trying to find many more people. Probably the best news though is my push up count is going up and I'm getting buff while all the other missionaries are getting fat :) 

Stay Solid!

Yo so this week was a pretty long week. Not much exciting happened really so that's kinda sad but that's life. We did a lot of finding and it didn't seem like very much of it was successful but that's alright. We had a few good lessons and found a couple people though so that was a little uplifting. 

The biggest thing that happened this week was that Angela had her interview to be baptized and so that will for sure be happening on the tenth at 7! That's kind of exciting. She's doing awesome and it will be super cool to see Tim baptize her. 

Other than that, probably the only other exciting thing was going on a hike today at sunset beach. It was pretty sick because it was like an actual beach not like a typical Oregon beach lol. I think I'm getting fatter now so I decided to start buying healthier food (which is super expensive) and we get up every morning and go running and work out. the struggle to stay in shape is so real out here! Anyway, I'll try to do something exciting this upcoming week so you guys can have something cool to read next time lol. Love you guys and I appreciate all of you who have emailed or written me! Stay solid back in so cal.

Stay solid

This week went by pretty quickly but it was a pretty good one. Its super cool to see the progress of some of our investigators finally!

So Angela young has set a date of being baptized on the 10th of September! It is so awesome! We have already gone over all of the baptismal questions with her this week and she answered them all perfectly! Her husband Tim who got baptized in December should be the one baptizing her so that will be so awesome! It's so funny to see how excited Tim is about it too! They are so awesome!  they have us over for dinner like every week and we have lessons almost every day and they are both doing so well! 

Kim graves, one of our progressing investigators is doing really well too! He has come to church two Sundays in a row and he is doing really well with the lessons! 

We have found a few new investigators this week and a few solid potentials also! We found a lady named Cheryl and she is a new investigator and is super awesome and she gave us a referral for one of her neighbors who is a potential and soon to be investigator. Things are looking up so that's all really good. 

 We did pretty well for only being in Bandon for like half the week! We got stuck in north bend for two days and had to stay the night at the zone leaders Tuesday night because our car was having problems and had to get fixed. That was a little frustrating just tracting for hours in their area when ours is the one we need to be working on but it was alright. We found some pretty cool people!

 Elder Nelson and I work really well together and he is doing super well! He is really a cool kid.  He is pretty talkative which is good because I tend to be quieter a lot now. 

I have to say also that I really appreciate those that have sent me letters this week. It is really uplifting because when you think about it, missionaries have like three things to look forward to; food, Pday and letters/ packages! Well that's mostly true other than the missionary work itself also haha. well I hope every one is doing great. I miss you all so much and I can't wait to see you guys in less than 20 months lol....

                                                                   Tim and Angela

This week was pretty crazy! Last Friday I found out I wold be training so on Monday morning elder Ybanez and I drove out to Roseburg.  He was going to his next area and I was staying there until Wednesday when we would then go up to Eugene to get our trainees.  

Wednesday we drove up to Eugene and went to a meeting that night on how we should be as trainers and all that good stuff. It was kind of crazy because elder Falatea is also training again so I got to stay with my trainer in our old apartment before we both got our new missionaries. So that was kind of cool! 

Thursday morning we got to meet our new companions. President would call up a trainer and talk about what area they are in and all that good stuff and then call up the trainee.  My new comp is elder Nelson! He's super cool! He's from long beach and he's already a really good missionary.  I already see why we were put together!  After all of that we drove back down to Bandon and by then the day was pretty much over. 

Friday we go hard in the paint and we get a couple new investigators and elder Nelson invites Angela Young to be baptized!! She said she had to think about it (even though she already knows it's going to happen)hahaha. So then Sunday they both go to church and we go over last night to talk about the lessons and Angela says she wants to set a date today (Monday night at FHE)!! So tonight we should be setting a date for her baptism!

So this week has been pretty good over all. We did run into several serious anti Mormon guys on Saturday and one of them had even written a book about how we are wrong lol. It was entertaining but it didn't phase us. So we are just going HAM building this area! (hard as mormons)
Stay solid, Love Sawyer

So this week has been pretty crazy but also super sweet. I'll share the couple cool things from this week. Monday started off super fun going up to north bend to hang with the zone for Pday. We played some basketball and then we went to the beach. We played soccer at the beach for a while which was super fun until I realized that the tide had come up about 20 yards and had completely soaked my shoes! The shoes were the least of my worries though because the car keys were in my shoes. they keys were completely soaked and so I was really worried since those new keys can be pretty expensive. So we go back to the car and I press the button to unlock the car and it works and I'm super relieved but then I get in and try to start the car and it won't start because the security chip in the key had gotten wet. So we try a bunch of stuff and we can't get it to work so we end up having to drive back to town with the zone leaders and the other elders (6 of us in a Chevy Cruze) hahaha it was such a mess. Then we put the key in rice and bought a new battery so the zone leaders could go back the next day and try it. We took a different car back down to our area and the next day the zone leaders went back to try it and it worked! I was so lucky and that was quite the tender mercy!
 
Wednesday was also a pretty nice day, the sisters came down and helped us in our area. It was good to have them back down here and they really helped us. We found 2 new investigators and several pretty solid potentials. This area is going up slowly but surely. It can be pretty frustrating though because a lot of people respond to sisters better than they respond to elders, but there are those few that will actually talk to elders haha.
 
Thursday we had a lesson with one of our investigators but I think he was high HAHA. Man it's hard to catch a break around here!
We also went over and helped the Talbots who are the senior couple in Bandon and they are so awesome!
 
Friday was the last district meeting of the transfer and also the last district meeting I will be teaching haha. So I got released as district leader and got called be a trainer. I'm pretty pumped for that! I will be in Roseburg for a couple days and then I will be in Eugene until Thursday, then I will bring the new missionary back down to Bandon. I think it will be super awesome and I'm going to try to set the tone for his mission! I hope that I can be a good trainer and start him off well. Also 4 other elders were put into this district and two of them are my buds from these last transfers so I'm super pumped.
So for the people we are teaching at the moment, we have Angela young who is a part member family and she is doing so awesome. She loves us so much and she believes that everything we have taught her is true. She has a few questions but she is so close!
We also have an older guy that we do service with every once in a while. He is super spiritual and believes in the Book of Mormon and Joseph smith but he smokes a lot of weed. lol.
Then we have several new investigators we are trying to get some more lessons with, so things are improving in Bandon.
Love You!