02-24 and 03-03 - Chickens and Puppies - Heads and Tails

02-24 - 14

So this week has been a super crazy week! i had to go on 2 exchanges this wek! because i have 5 companionships in my stewardship i have to go on an exchange with everyone of them before the transfer ends! i have the biggest district in the mission! the cool thing is , that the assistants are in my district! elder pinnock and elder castenada! they are both from idaho! actually elder pinnock is from rigby and is in grandma and grandpas ward! i went on an exchange with him and had the best exchange of my mission! i love him so much! and then i went on an exchange with elder wolfe! he is a little eccentric but you go tto love them!!! so, so far we have 6 baptism dates for sanger! we are scheduled to baptize every week in march if it all pans out!!!  other than that, remember that stupid little white dog that mad em crash, we were over in that area again! and elder adnerson wanted to prove to me that is was all bark no bit so he went up to it and as soon as he turned around it bit him hahaha it was so funny, so we were talking to the boyfriend of the owner of the dog, that hates the thing too and it snuck up behind me and bit me dang it! that dog is going to die before i leave sanger! it will just magically disappear one day! other than that we just plain out had a good week full of miracls. for instance we set 2 baptism dates on sunday! it is super cool! there is a book that sister gelwix was telling us about that seems very interesting that i think you might like it is called VISIONS OF GLORY  BY COVE FORT you can get it off amazon!! we are scheduled to baptize next saturday that is going to be good! we went up to squaw valley and cut some chickens haed off i never really knew what would happen if you just take an axe and lopped its head off, so i had to try it! i got a video of it which is pretty hilarious! it goes nuts!!! i trully know the meaning running around like a chicken with its head cut off! i got to pluck the chickens and gut them too! chickens are just nasty animals! i much rather clean an elk out than a chicken!!! anyway that was my week i love all of you!

Love elder lundberg!!!

the people we went and di service for has a yorkie just like little daisy named dutchess! haha its a cute dog! also mother i need some more garments and some shirts they are getting old and dicolored and stained  with my garments for the bottoms i need a size 42 cotton poly briefs!      for the tops i need an extra large tall dry lux   and for the shirts i need an 18.5 tall short sleeve 65 percent cotton and 35 percent polyester    probably just 5 pairs of garments and like 2 or 3 shirts! haha but if not i guess thats ok i just need some! thank you mom!

mom you are the best i love you soo much! and yeah its a video about the chicken! you will laugh i promise! haha the chicken went nuts haha and you just need to send me a new sd card! haha and i know i am in the right place i love my mission it is an amazing experience! i finally wrote chance like grandpa wanted me too! and also you need to look at that book i think you will like it a lot it is about a guy who like dies for a while and sees like his spirit world house and stuff like that! it is super interesting!!!

03-03-14

We had another baptism!!!  we baptized erica!! the stupid little white dog hasnt came out since i boyught ammonia!! it knows that is is going to be in for some fun with elder lundberg!! i bring that thing where ever i go!! it is super nice haha there are some members named the griggs that are soo cool! brother girggs reminds me soo much of jeramy! we went to dinner and he was telling me all of the war stories because he was in the army but he is opnly in his mid 30s! they are soo cool elder anderson and I helped dock their puppies tails! they bought us like brand new trimmers to do it! they were squealing! haha and pooping everywhere! haha it was pretty funny! i had to interview 2 more popel for baptisms for the assistants and the sisters so that is pretty cool! transfers are coming up next week! so we will see what happens! elder anderson and i were wreslting and i smacked my head on my bed frame and it was just gushing blood! haha it hurt only for a second! I went on an exchange with elder gayan!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! it was sooo dang fun! him and i probably have the closest relationship out here! he is really like my big brother! we love each other a lot! i love being a misisonaries! its cool to see gods hand in my life as a missionary and all the miracles!

Love Elder Lundberg!!!

02-17-14 - Little White Dog

tHIS WEK WE HAD 2 BAPTISMS!!!! THAT IS WHAT I AM TALKING ABOUT!  this week  we stinking biked a whole lot!!!  the spanish elders needed the car almost evry single day! so we were at the southern end of my area and this stinking little white dog kept chasing me on my bike! so i was on the grass and i go to kick it and wasnt looking at where i was going and there was a pothole and i ate it bad! it was kinda embarassing!  we have had a lot of success looking through former investogators! we street contact all the time! we have 2 more dates we have set! we set a date for march 29 for segio! the reason why its so far, is because he stinking smokes weed! his house just stinks like weed all the time! haha i guess some girl recorded my rwreck and put it on facebook, so try to find it! haha other than that our baptism went well! that puts me at 18! i am getting close to my goal! I love being a missionary! its super fun! haha sanger is good! elder anderson and i just tell each other hunting stories and he tells me stories about his cows on his ranch and all the crazy things that happenb when he tags xcalves and things like that! i like the stories! he has a lot of funny ones!!!

Love elder Lundberg

02-10-14 - Sanger Bangers!!

this week has been good! we have a baptism of a family on saturday there names are erica fatima and beto! so that is super exciting!!!  other than that we went to go see one of our recent converts at like 830!!! her dad answered the door fuming mad!! he opened the door and said"gentlemen do you know what time it is??" and we said that it was 830! then he said yeah it is 830!!!!!!!!! and he is yelling at thius point!  he says ever since my daughter was batpized you people keep calling my phone and knocking on my door! he said i want you gone! dont ever come baqck and he goes to step inside of his house! and i just had to testify of what i know, so i said sir i testify to you that! and we walks back out and slams the door as hard as he could behind him and said what did you say! and then i said i testify that the message we share will bless your life! i was cool as a cucumber! he is up in my face at this point! and he said i told you i want you gone!!!! J-O-N-E! he spelled gone wrong! and i said alright sir you have a goodnight god bless! and i start walking off , then he says f you you fing mormons never quit f you! haha it took my all not to freak out on this old dude! he was a lot smaller than me! he definitely had some skoons to come up to me like that! if he were to touch me tho, we would have gone toes right on his porch!! so that was my funny experience! pther than that we have a baptism on saturday!!!!!! thats super exciting!  but yeah the drug store grandpa knows is called reed drug!! sister bonham went to school with lyel mortimer grandpas brother i think! so that is cool! brother bonhams mom actually owned that drug store! so thats cool! sister bonham looks so much like grandma bonnie, it is crazy! she acts almost identical too! it definitely makes me miss her a lot! i will send you my journal entries from this week! 

Love elder Lundberg

Pictures of Squaw Valley - He went up here and did some service for members chopping wood.  Then, they fed him a steak dinner afterwards.  Cade, of course, loved that!  He loved the fact that there were mountains there.  He also said that it reminded him of hunting back home.

02-03-14 - Sweet Sanger

So this week has been crazy! a lottle bit about sanger, is it is a lot like magna, it is just isolated from everything else!! the ward is plain amazing! haha there is a walmart, they basically have everything there!!! the car is super nice, but wee have to share it with the sanger spanish elders, so we only get it 4 times a week! which is alright! we have a ton of investigators here! the work is going well! we have 3 dates for february 15 so that is pretty cool! i was so bummed that the broncos lost dang it! it kinda upset me, but it is ok! hah aturns out that my wml is from rigby! his name is reed bonham! he told me to mention lyn jensen to see if that rang a bell! they know grandma and grandpa mortimer! which is pretty sweet! no word on shawn my investigator in modesto! but i will be back to baptize him! other than that elder anderson is from wyoming, he rode saddle broncs! it is pretty sweet to hear all his stories! me and him get a long great!  i bore aq powerful testimony in sacrament meeting! the ward is so friendly! oh real quick ,  our ward mission leaders wife, reminds me soooo much of grandma bonnie! i will have to get a picture of her so you can see the similarities it is crazy! anyways thats pretty much everything that has been going on! i love all of you! oh i want dad to do both!!!

This is a picture of Shawn!!

This is Elder Anderson....his new companion!  

Jan 27, 2014 L-berg, the Fatted Calf - Transfers - CAR!!!

So the big news is, is that i am getting transferred on wednesday!!!!!!! it is definitely bitter sweet! i have grown to love this ward soo much! all the people i have baptized and just the members!!! they will be missed! i am being transferred to sanger, which is like south east of fresno! i have been told that it is a little country town! My new companions name is elder anderson! i heard he is a cowboy from texas! i guess he rides bulls! so thats pretty cool! i am staying district leader down there! i will miss my companions i have now! especially elder bean! i dont think i will ever have a companion like him again! we just clicked from the beginning! but elder bean is taking my place as a district leader, its cool because all of his companionships are visa waiters to brazil! so he can have his district meetings in portuguese!

so here is how my week went down!  we have been biking our little booties off! we have biked to the very southern part of our area like 5 times this last week! because we have potentials down there haha! so we are on the very north part of our area and so it was a  long couple of days! as you probably know, that my birthday was on saturday! i am 19 , i cant believe it!

L-Berg - The Fatted Calf - HA HA HA HA HA

  So on saturday elder bean and elder mcewan got me like a fat little cow, now the story behind that is when i was being trained elder gayan said that i was the fatted calf of the mission, and i guess that has been with me for forever! haha so they got me this fat cow and told me it was the fatted calf! haha we called it L-berg! haha so it was funny! i celebrated my birthday with matthew! i love him soo much! haha matthew made me a cake right out of the penitentiary! he told me that is what they make in jail! so it was a honeybun, with melted peanut butter on it with a broken up and melted candy bar on it and some bananas on top! it was super good! other than that i really didnt do a lot for my birthda!

on sunday, it was my last sunday in the modesto 2nd ward! and it was fast and testimony for them! so i got up and bore a powerful testimony! i made a lot of people cry! i almost cried a little bit haha! i sat down and i saw all these people wiping there eyes! and right after me this 11 year old boy gets up and says, wll now i know that elder lundberg is leaving, i will miss him, he is one of my favorite missionaries! that was sister howells son!

other than that on the bright side, i will have a car in my new area! haha i just want to leave you with a couple versuses that pertain to us now! it is D and C 138:55-56 it is powerful! i love you !

love elder lundberg

Jan 20, 2014 - A Little Drip Doesn't Matter!

Another baptism in the books!! that puts me at 16! We baptized a guy named David! it was a super powerful baptism! his wife is a member, and we have been teaching him for about a month! He was super prepared! it was pretty cool on how we found him! so when i got doubled into this are  with elder brantlety, the relief society president gave me a name to go check out for her. and that name was patricia hudgens ( davids wife) So we went and checked it out and she answered the door, she said she had a high risk pregnancy, and i didnt think anything of it!

So in ward council i reported on what i found, and the high priest assigned a hometeacher for her. And of course it was brother larson! the best member missionary i know! so like a month later elder bean and i visited the larsens and told them to fast and pray about who they knew, that would accept the missionaries to teach! so we set a return date, well a couples weeks past and it was the day we were going to follow up! and the larsens didnt have anybody for us to go teach, when all of a sudden brother larsen had an idead to go visit some of his hometeaching families, and when he got to the hudgens home he had the thought to invite them over to our home and have dinner with the missionaries, and after dinner we shared about the book of mormon and we asked them if wecould start teaching him! and he said sure! it is crazy to just see how the lord works! The cool thing about it is that david asked me to baptize him and after the baptism, which shawn and monica attended, shawn and monica came up to me and said i want you to baptize me no matter what!!! so that made feel good!  so that was kind of the spiritual side of this week!!!!

on the other hand DENVER IS GOING TO THE SUPERBOWL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

!!! haha my whole ward knows i like denver so like during the game members were texting our phone telling me the score, it was soo funny! when i found out they won i was jumping around my apartment like crazy!!! The only dang time i am not allowed to watch football is when my broncos go to the superbowl dang it!!!!! i am a diehard denver fan and i cant even watch! It is funny because since i am on my mission the lord is blessing my team because i am serving him! so thats why denver is winning!  SO ALL YOU DENVER FANS OUT THERE JUST SAY YOUR WELCOME TO ME!!!  haha 

One crazy thing thats not in utah, is every grocery store i walk into has alcohol inside on the shelves! it is crazy there are so many different kinds! ooo One more thing mom record the superbowl so i can watch it when i get home.

I LOVE THIS ANALOGY -  (Kayla)

There was a talk given in sacrament that was super powerful, so this guy took out his dishwasher and he turned the valve to the water off as much as he could, but he said that there was still like a little drip like every 10 or 20 seconds, so he thought to himself that doesnt matter i will just put a bowl under it, then in the morning when i get up to install the dishwasher i will dump the water out and it will be fine! so the next morning he woke up and he said there was water everywhere!! it was over flowing the bucket he had! and he related that to satan. if you let satan drip into your lives through tv or the internet or swearing or whatever, when you wake up you will realize that you have a mess you are going to have to fix! it is crazy how a little 20 second drip could do that! that is how satan works, a little drip at a time! 

i love you all! thanks for your prayers, they are helping me in my missionary work!

Love Elder Lundberg

I ALSO HAVE TO SHARE KC's Email this week, too!  These Young Men are having such great experiences....it is amazing!

Hey Everyone! This week has been a pretty good week. I don't have anymore fish tank stories unfortunately but yesterday was probably the most spiritual day of my mission. Yesterday one of our investigators, Chris, got the day off of work to come to church with us. We were so happy! Oh I do have one kind of funny story. While we were in sunday school chris got a  call from his girlfriend and he said, " I have to take this." He answered his phone and had a conversation while the rest of us just sat and listened. It was pretty awkward. After Church we went over to chris' house to teach him and during our lesson his roommate, Bobby, came out of his room said, " I have a question, How did God create us?" This is a man that is highly into drugs and never has been interested in talking to us. He is always in another room. Yesterday he opened up and we taught him about the Book of Mormon and he was so interested! He is now reading it and praying about it. Chris has been praying for his friend for a long time. He prayed that his friend would have guidance in his life. After Chris thanked us and we said, It wasn't us, you are now a personal witness of how prayers are answered and how god loves all of his children. We asked him to give us the closing prayer and he showed a lot of gratitude. It was so awesome. Later that night we went to visit a less active member. Brother Gordon. His wife has never talked to us much. She has never been interested but last night she completely changed. We taught her about the Restoration and the Book of Mormon and she is reading and praying with Brother Gordon now. She accepted the invite to be baptized. She is such an awesome lady! I am so thankful for spirit. Our lesson with the Gordon family was the most spiritual lesson I have had on my mission so far. She recognized these feelings. She told us that she had only felt this way once before. She said it was when I was in Salt Lake City and my husband took me to see the Joseph Smith movie. She taught herself that she was feeling truth. I loved that lesson. I would pay money to be in that lesson again!

I love you all! I hope you have a great week! Thank you for your prayers!

Love Elder Roose 

Jan 13, 2014 - The God Squad

This week we had a lot of driving hours, so we went to the temple on tuesday and the very next day we went back down to fresno for a trainer traineee meeting! the meeting was super good we wetched some clips that were just amazing! president got them off of youtube and ong just type in elder busche and the clip should pop up! and the next on is called true move- giving! both are powerful videos!! and i forgot to include something in my letter from last week, so 2 fridays ago i had the opportunity to interview a special operations sniper for baptism!!!!!!! it was pretty dang sweet! haha so we had a couple of powerful lessons with aaron and shawn and shanws girlfriend! our gangstas!!!!!! we set a date for march 1 with shawn and monica! on thursday we brought matthew over to help us teach them, bec ause he has been in the same position as them!!! he bore a powerful testimony on how this gospel can bless them! matthew is a living witness of how this gospel can totally turn a life 360 for the better!

 In this area, is where i have come to love everybody that i have taught and are teaching! i love matthew so much! he is just amazing to see where he came from to where he is now!  but it is a little scary teaching our gangsters! i got aproached in church on sunday which was super nice of brother slade to do! he came up to me and said that their were some people in our ward afraid for our safety because shawn and aaron are in the witness protection program and he told me that there has been drive bys of gangs looking for shawn and aaron! so he told me to be aware of what members we take and what not! haha i am staright up in a gang war zone! haha its okay because i got the most powerful being ever on my side thats god! we are the GOD SQUAD! that is what the gangsters call us! or the G squad because we are teaching them! so i named my district that! haha THE GOD SQUAD!!!!!!  but we met with matthew last night and he is super intellectual in the gospel! you eould be amazed! he knows the scriptures better than most members! he said to me that "god is not a DJ, he doesnt make requests!" he is soo funny haha! thats it for this week!

i know that this gospel is meant for everyone! and it is the only way to live with our heavenly father again< if we arent baptized with proper authority, there is absolutely no way possibel for us to live with god, let alone with our families after this life!!! One thing i have realized on my mission is how powerful the atonement is, if we use it every single day! and if you dont use it everyday and repent ever day, it isa kind of liking you are brushing jesus christ under the carpet, because he suffered for all of our pains sicknesses and sorrows and sins for a reason! its our job just to use it because it is there waiting for us! so the challenge i send out today is if you dont repent every single day, i am calling you to repentance!  YOU NEED TO REPENT EVERY SINGLE DAY!  the feeling you feel when you repent is undescribable! and if you arent baptized i challenge you to take the lessons because if you truly want to be happy for all eternity after this life then you must be baptized by proper authority and The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints is the ONLY  church that has the authority to do so!!!

Our life on earth is only a particle in comparison to all eternity after we die! and depending how we live our lives here on earth and what choices we make, depends on how we will live our lives for all eternity after we die from this earth! i love this gospel!

 

Love Elder Lundberg

P.S you need to watch the best 2 years i heard that it is super funny!:)