May 25, 2010 - "Oh by the way...."

so this week we were really lucky we were able to baptise five people. the garcia family and ashliey. the garcia family was one of the most spiritual baptisims of my mission. ashliey had alot of things she had to overcome. she didn't want to repent of her past homosexual relationship, smoking, and hard drugs. because of the spirit she was able to overcome all of thoses. last pday elder ramsey and i were in a car accident. we were riding with a member and we were turning left on a green light and we were hit in the rear. the guy who hit us was traveling 103 in a 45. he left a 75skid so the cops were guessing he was traveling about 103. but i deffently got a testimony of wearing a seatbelt hahahah i didn't have one on. i was laying down in the back when we were hit and i flipped over and was laying on the floor board. i was asleep so i didn't see anything coming i just woke up on the floor board and my knees hurt. but WE ARE OKAY!!!! MOM QUIT CRYING!!!!!! the lord always protects his servants. but i do count my blessings the cops said another six inches forward of where we got hit and my legs probally would of been snapped and both my companion and i would be in the hospital. but this next week looks promising. we have leeannas baptisim next monday!!!!!

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Elder Tyler Herring

A Wonderful Mother's Day Gift

Hello,

My name is Stacie Grieco and I live in Hooper, Utah. Your son is currently teaching my husband. I was raised in the church, my husband grew up Catholic and has been taking the missionaries on and off for ten years. Each missionary has brought his or her own unique personalities and teaching styles. Some we have clicked with a little better than others. Elder Herring is one of our favorites. As you can imagine we have met a lot of missionaries. Your son is an amazing missionary and brings with him such a calming feeling. He has such a strong testimony and speaks with such honesty. Elder Herring and Elder Ramsey have been teaching us for a couple of months now and our family has really grown to love them. After the first lesson my husband commented on how good these two missionaries were. He said they really have strong testimonies of the gospel. I want to thank you for raising such a wonderful young man and encouraging him to go on a mission. My husband is a very logical thinker and things need to be explained logically to him. He attends church every week with me and our two children. I know one day he will convert I just don’t know when that might be but I can say some missionaries leave more of a mark on him than others and Elder Herring has definitely left a lasting impression on him. I took these pictures of them last week; they came and helped us in our yard.

I hope you have a wonderful mother’s day..

Thanks
Stacie

Yay for my first successful video upload ever! :D

May 18, 2010

so we had zone conference this week. take a guess who our special guest was? alex boye one of the only african amercan singers in the mormon tabernacle choir. he told us his whole life storey. alex told us about how when he was in boarding school kids we take his food all the time at lunch. till one day two of his cousins transfered to that school. he said they were huge!!! he likened to when angless are always with us, expecially as missionaries. he then asked how many people were in the room? Elder Cowan blurted out about 80. Alex Boye said 80 people that you can see, he went oon how angels are always beside us on our right and our left (D+C 84:88). angles have protected us our whole lives. they have prepared people for us. if we open a new area and we think its just us and our companion always remember we have angels beside us just like his cousins, people wouldn't take his food because of his cousins were huge. :) he then started talking about how he was homeless and eating out of trash cans. he quoted D+C 122 where it says that all hese things shall be for thy good.

what we understand as good and what the lord knows good is two different things. the lords good is found in 1nephi 19:9. "And the world, because of their iniquity, shall judge him to be a thing of naught; wherefore they scourge him, and he suffereth it; and they smite him, and he suffereth it. Yea, they aspit upon him, and he suffereth it, because of his loving bkindness and his clong-suffering towards the children of men." who are we to murmur if that what good is in gods eyes?

he then said alot of really profound quotes that i liked:
-without faith it is immpossible to please god
this next one he likened it to missionary wok
-satan knows how powerful you are and knows how mant people you can effect. so he's going to discoarage you and bring you down

this week though we have five baptizims. the garcia family is thursday at seven. and ashley vanzweedens is saturday at two as long as she doesn't smoke this week. shes overcome alot of obstacles. yesterday in president interviews Prez Olson said that this is the last transfer that elder ramsey and I will be together. next transfer i asked him if i could stay in hooper and he said that id be getting a missionary that struggling a little bit, so i get to learn love and charity and patience next transfer :)

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Elder Tyler Herring

May 11, 2010

so this week i got to talk to my parents!!!!! it was sweet they did this conference call thing where i could talk to a ton of people at one time. it was sweet i talked to my mom, dad, sisters, and my grandparents. monday morning we had the oppurtunity to do service at the Ogden Utah Temple. they had us pulling out tullips and all the other plants and had us plant all new ones. the whole temple every flower bed........ i never noticed how many flower beds there were until you have to digg out and plant new ones in each bed. i have come to appreciate people who can do landscaping every day, cause i cant. the only spiritual experience i can think of was today at the temple, i had left my temple recommend at home so i was sitting in the waiting room for my companion. i turned on the tv and was going through and watching all the movies the church puts out. an older lady came in and sat to the right of me and we started shooting the small talk. i found out that she was originaly from puerto rico but moved to pennsilvynia and is now on a service mission in Clinton, Utah. she was one of the nicest old ladies ive ever met aside from my grandparents. she gave me her phone number and said that if my companion and I ever needed anything to call her. when she was walking out she said something that stuck out to me, "Elder smile.... and always love the people" the week before i had studied all the christ-like attributes, i learned alot but sorta rushed through charity and love just to say that i was done so i could study something else. looking in retro spec i should of spent more time on charity in love. this week one of my goals is to learn to have more love for the people i labor with and my investigators..... oh and try not to be so competitive. :) idk if that second one is going to happen
love you all

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Elder Tyler Herring

May 4, 2010

so u got taught i really valueble experience on sunday. ill just share it.

i was writing it down as it happened. i was sitting in sacrement meeting today in the foxglen ward. we were sitting beside the maughn family, and i couldn't help but notice there little boy. i didn't know what was wrong with him, but he had a pipe running out of his neck and couldn't support himself. He also had something that went around his chest to help him sit up. about every five minutes they had to use a suction pump to get the saliva out of his mouth. I couldn't stop thinking why? why would god do this to him and his little family? I came to the conclusion that there son was one of the elect or more faithful souls in heaven. Heavenly father is putting this little boy through all of this because he knows he can take it. I kept seeing the love his family had for him. you could just see the dad had for him in his eyes. the way he would hold him and craddle him so carefully as he read him a book. He can't talk but he knows sign launguage. the thought came to mind was i faithful in heaven? the lord knew what I could go through. the scripture in D:C 121+122 came to mind. verse seven "my son peace be unto thy soul thine adversity and thine afflictions shall be but a small moment." in section 122:8 "the son of man hath descended below them all." jesus knew exactly what that little boy went through I want to be someone the lord can rely on, as one of his faithful servants throughout my life. i learned that trials are for us to grow and learn. I went up and shared what i saw in the foxglen ward in a different sacrement meeting. i cried thhrough most of it. i kept thinking of my family back home and the love they have for me. when i sat back down one of our investigators Logan (9) asked why are you crying? whats wrong? I said "buddy sometimes the holy ghost makes you cry when your talking about something really special to you. what i got taught from all this was count your blessings, and next time your going through a trial remember the lord already went through that and knows how you feel. so quit complaining.

but this upcoming week logan (9) is getting baptized!!!!!! the week before we had a baptisim but i forgot to tell you about it :) her name was lily mitchill ill send a picture of them next week
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Elder Tyler Herring
2133 Washington Blvd.
Ogden, Utah 84401