Elder Jesse Plumb - Washington Seattle Mission 10/2021 - 10/2023

  Alright I've been getting pretty bad writing emails lately. Sorry about that y'all. It's a new transfer though and I have a new companion, Elder Pierson. My old companion, Elder Bell, actually became an assistant to our Mission President so for the last week of my last transfer I just had Elder Bentley-Dyches and it was good times. Elder Pierson and I were trained by the same Elder when we first came in the mission though so that's cool. Times in Bear Creek have been interesting. We meet a lot of people and make new friends a lot, but they are very flaky and our current most progressing friends have been hard to set up times to meet recently. But this last Sunday a woman named Pratibha show up to church with her husband and 2 kids. It was great to see a family a church. They came this Sunday again and they loved it again and plan to keep coming. She is absolutely amazing and even with very different beliefs she has such a great desire to find truth. The missions been ...

 Well I've gone north in the Seattle mission. I got transferred to the Bear Creek ward up in Redmond. It's been a fun first week, my companion is Elder Bell who's a 6'5" giraffe. His trainer also trained me in my 2nd transfer(weeks 7-12). We get along well and love to hype up our Zone. Our Zone is Sammamish Valley, so it's nicknamed the Valley and there's a hand sign called Vs up that everyone does. This last week, I was able to attend a baptism of someone I taught a lot while I was in the Star Lake ward in Federal Way. His name is Chris Younger and he's awesome. I had to opportunity to give the message of the Restoration of the Gospel during an intermission in the baptism with and old companion of mine, Elder Votava. It was fun to that again with him but what was great was after a man in the crowd, I never met, came up to me and said there was something in that message that was shared that very powerful and filled the room with the spirit. He said it w...

  What's up everyone? Hope it's been good where you're at. Well this week was super cool, we had a member of the 70 come to our mission, his name was Elder Mark A. Bragg. He really loved our mission but apparently we've been doing companionship study wrong my whole mission haha. The spirit gave me a good reminder of the small things in missionary work and even just life in general that make such a big difference. It reminds me of Elder Uchtdorf and his talk on a matter of a few degrees and the difference those tiny mistakes or faults can do. Through "small means the Lord can bring about great things." To improve on these small things, I've been making goals around the scripture of Christ asking three times to Peter, "Lovest thou me, more than these?" Our every decision and action we use with our agency reflects how much we love the Lord. Every action, thought, and priority we have either helps us progress and grow or regress. Focusing on the smal...

  How's it going y'all? This was an exhausting week, we just had a lot of meetings and events towards the tail end of it that made our work feel less effective. Many great spiritual experiences though no doubt. One of those events was the temple which was peaceful break midweek to relieve some stress. Our friend Cormac also ended up being baptized this last weekend, which ended it on a high note. I think a big thing I took away from this week is, in pressure packed moments, I can choose to be a victim and let my situation get the best of me and lose a growth opportunity. Or I can choose to be a victor and overcome whatever circumstance I'm in through Christ and take opposition as an opportunity to be strengthened. If you know me, a passion I have is sports. The most dominant quarterbacks, basketball players, coaches, etc, are calm, cool, and collected in pressure filled situations. They choose to not let their circumstance defeat and overpower them. And they seize the momen...

  Hey yall! It's some good times here in Auburn. Apparently we had the worst air quality in the world at one point this past week because of the smoke from the fires up here. But thankfully it's been raining, but that means the 9 months of no sun is back. This week was also the start of a new transfer and I got a new elder to train again. Elder Thompson got put in Spanish work and my new elder is Elder Butler. Its been a fun first week with him and I'm glad to be staying in the Mill Pond Ward as well. This week, our friend Cormac is planning to get baptized, which is super exciting. Our whole zone has been absolutely popping off right now as well and there's been tons of hype for the work. The Lord's work is moving forward and ain't gonna lie there's been some neat persecution these last couple weeks. It's always great to watch others yell and scream at me and claim I worship the devil and they worship the true christ as I stand their smiling and respect...

  Howdy howdy everyone. Its been a crazy couple weeks here in Auburn. This last week alone we had 4 people commit to a baptismal date. We've been receiving miracle after miracle from the Lord. And this is most healthy I've been in my life. I've eaten more salad these last 3 weeks alone than I have in my life. And I've been going 3 months strong on a soda fast and just started up a fast food fast. Yes, I know the old Elder Plumb is gone but never forgotten. Anyways with one our friends were teaching named Anthony, has truly, truly changed through Jesus Christ. I have literally seen him in the very lows of the life to no longer heeding ungodliness. He's a stud and is even sharing the gospel with his other friends. The Prophet of God, Russell M. Nelson gave a talk about Overcoming the world. To those who are worldly, (and yes, I'm calling you out) and don't understand what being worldly is, it means to put the things of the world over our relationship with our ...

 Sorry everyone I realize I haven't sent an email in like 3 weeks. And a lot has changed. I got the good ol 6 weeks and out in Kent and am now in Auburn, in the Mill Pond Ward and am training again. I had a great time in Kent in the Pine Tree ward with Elder Wilson but sadly the dynasty has come to an end. Which is unfortunate because we just swiped our teaching pool and had like 3  people who were now ready to be baptized so I won't be able to see them make their first covenant with God but I'm glad I was able to help them with it. But I've been in Auburn for 2 weeks and just wow. This place is amazing. Elder Thompson is my new greenies name and he's got some fire to his 6'5" frame. He's very ready for missionary work. We're opening this ward together because it was being double covered the last 12 weeks by Elders who also covered a Spanish area. So they said they put a lot more focus on their Spanish work. So the first week was just a straight fin...