Noah on a Mission

(With the Gallagher Weekly 's popularity dwindling, the editors have decided to move towards a far more sensationalized route in order to entice more readers. Enjoy.) Wandering in the strange foreign land of Ohio our hero, Elder Gallagher. Stripped six months of his first name along with all his worldly possessions and sent on a quest to preach the Gospel instead of doing nothing with his life, he now has naught but memories of his beloved desert homeland of St. George. Will he return one day to that Promised Land in success, having brought many into the waters of baptism? Or will he fail to change the hearts of any in the desolate flat-lands of Ohio? Time can only tell... Well that was dumb. Hope you enjoyed it. Now that you're hooked into the email, let's talk about what's been happening. First, at District Council last week an Elder from St. George referred to it as "the Promised Land". And you know what? He's darn right! I've thoug...

Hi guys, As of a week ago I've been out 6 months. I forgot to mention that in my last email. Oops. But that's pretty cool. Doesn't feel like 6 months. Elder Henrie leaves me tomorrow! It's been a good transfer though. We've pushed ourselves and worked hard. Met many new people and helped as many as we could. I will find out who my new companion is tomorrow I think. (P-day should be back to Wednesdays next week.) We do have a solid person on date for baptism now though! A 10-year-old from a part-member family named Addy. Looking forward to that in a few weeks. Highlights from the week: exchanges with the Nepali elders where I was mostly-useless but fascinated by the culture, having a video call with a drunk and atypically-open Michael, and meeting and giving a priesthood blessing to a non-prac...

Hi guys, They want us proselyting on the Fourth of July SO p-day is happening on Tuesday this week. (Actually next week as well for some other reason that I can't recall.) Well, we did not baptize our own convert last month. But Elder Henrie had someone he taught from a previous area baptized and he also performed the baptism for a little Nepali girl not long ago, so maybe either or both of those count? An article for you: "What Will You Choose?" January 2015 Ensign. I wrote the name of the article down days ago though and I don't remember why I thought it was good anymore but I know it was! In other unexciting news, I had someone tell us that we are deceivers who are going to Hell for the first time in my mission. It happened yesterday on exchanges. We were walking by some apartments and this really nervous-looking guy comes out the door and starts talking to us. Asks us what we're doing and then what missionaries are. We tell him ...

Hey guys, Remember last week when I talked about letting the Spirit work through you? (You remember.) Well I read a cool little Ensign story about that very thing. It's called "Letting Go of My Fear" from the January 2012 issue. And then I had a similar experience. Three weeks ago (I believe) Elder Henrie and I gave talks in sacrament meeting on missionary work. That was interesting. Then last week, a young woman came up to us, told us that she had started a mission in the Philippines, come home due to medical complications, and had been debating going back out for some time. She told us that listening to our talks helped her finalize her decision to go back out there! Wow. That's really cool. Stuff like that is happening all the time. One thing I learned while researching my talk was that God's kingdom (AKA this church) will never again apostasize like it did in the primitive church. How do we know this? Daniel (you know, the lion guy) prophesied ...