week 65

wow 20

If you are reading this and youre still in your teens just pause time and stay there 20 is not even a cool age to have its just the beginning of the end of being immature.  Stay a teenager is my message to you.

nah

The birthday on the mission was real nice.  It was fast sunday so no big breakfeast or anything i live with three other missionaires so they bought me a nice tie and gave it to me in the morning than we went to church.  I ended up blessing the sacrement and bearing my testimony so i guess that was a pretty sweet birthday present.

Also 6 white white tourists just showed up at the branch and i ended up translating for a couple they were from Utah.  Small world moment Madision one of the guys i translated for served in the Brasil mission.  Yeah back when it was only one mission.  I asked him if he knew Belo Horozonté and he flipped out.  he opened that area and he gave me a huge bear hug when i told him you served there.  

Best present of the day was a call from a Guyane number.  It was Leno and Nelma and they wished me happy birthday it really meant a lot to me that they remembered and took the time to call me.  

But the best part was i know as a missionary i cant have a proper birthday party no dancing or singing so i found the loop hole.  I ended up getting invited to Evangleist church and i did all the singing and dancing praising jesus.  it was really only fun for 10 minutes than after singing in french, creole, and hebrew i had a headache and left.  shortest birthday ever.

Transfer news Elder Sackley is holding down Fort de France for another.

Elder Logan Robert Sackley

we have had these mangos in our freezer for 4 months.  i guess im sending this home because i really didnt take pictures this week.  my bad

let the tradition continue!

week 64

Bonjour

First thing first first.  I hiked a super volcano today bare foot.  yes the mountain Pele was conquered by me doing my best fellowship of the ring impersonation. in other news never hike a super volcano barefoot it hurts really bad and other than the fact that i grew a huge ball of chest hair it didnt merit me much.

Second is the wedding photos are of Fréré Telga.  Originally AP telga when i entered the mission.  i was looking back through a journal and i wrote about a martiniquan AP who drove like a mad man and than this past weekend i went to his wedding.  they got sealed in temple this weekend in France you have to be married at the government building for it to be legal so i saw that.  His wife was Sœur Occolier she was a sister missionary at temple square.  so missionaries have talked about this wedding since before i entered the mission than i got to see it.  good stuff good stuff. as for myself ill be single till 29.

I wanted to share just something i realized this past week.  Dale G. Renlund said it and Elder Sackley lived it.  Something beautiful happens when a missionary realizes that his call is not about him, that its about the lord and his work.

a couple weeks ago i got to participate in a blessing for a women named justina.  she had leg problems and shoulder pains since birth.  As she told me about it i felt so much love for this lady.  and so much appreciation that i was able to be there and act as mouth piece for the lord.  i read some verses in 3 nephi of jesus Healing the sick.  than i put my hands on her head and gave a blessing.

I quoted the Dale G. Renlund testimony because at that moment i knew that this blessing had nothing to do with me i was blessed enough just to act as mouth piece for the lord. It was a longer blessing but it was the most powerful blesing i have felt on my mission.  We left, it was the sisters ami, and than a couple days ago i got a call.  Saying justina couldnt feel the pain in her shoulder and her leg was working.  It really has nothing to do with Elder Sackley or any of us for that matter.  Its about the lord and his work.  And im thankful to be apart of it.

Im 20 next week this is nonesense

Elder Logan Robert Sackley

relax mayneeeeeee

yall missed the wedding of the century

i cant carry the ring mr frodo but i can carry you

week 63

wow...

I just want to be a real boy or more specifically a real missionary again.  Its been  a long week ladies and gentlemen.

But first that picture of me and Elder Noho.  Elder noho is a tahitian Elder and Elder noho took me to mcdonalds during our exchange.  there is a lady in the branch notorious for feeding and stuffing missionaries named sister Eva so elder Noho tells me Elder Sackley tonight im sister eva were going to eat.

He than proceeded to spend 54 euors on mcdonalds.  54 euros.... thats like 70 US dollars.  Every burger you ever wanted and ice cream was right before us.  And i have never felt so sick and nasty in my life.  We ate it all.  In other news im 201 pounds so yeah.  I love my polys

The week itself was a challenge i feel like an office missionary some days i just call agency looking for apartments or i have to go to Toyota to regulate car things.  I just really miss waking up studying and going hard all day. 

Also just another random story.  i feel like my life is a comedy.  i spend my day wanting to cheese grade my forhead while i do senior couple stuff and than when i teach stuff like this happens

again on the exchange with Elder noho were teaching a guy named nicholas.  The lesson is going really good i set a date with him and than he just starts making bird noises.  Elder noho loses it and the spirit is gone and im like my goodness why me.  And if that wasnt enough this guy is like thats not all i can do!  he takes off his shirt and lays down on the tile, hes a little chubby, and he starts rocking back and forth making his back make a farting noise. i quit

yes that really did happen right after he accepted a baptismal date. why me?

President is coming this weekend so that should be fun

Elder Logan Robert Sackley

Gerson is my home boy

Elder Noho my tahitian brother!  54 euros of macdooo was too much

week 62

Well

hey i got pictures up this week so no one can be mad-but that also means my report for the week is going to be a bit short. So this week was poopy doopy.  i dont know if i should talk like that by this point in the mission but anyhow that's just how it was. 

Monday was spent getting all my papers ready for legilization and tuesday was spent getting me legalized. Which meant we spent no time whatsoever in our area for two days, which really handicapped us as well as the fact we had to walk or take buses everywhere. Basically we have a ton of stuff to do and it takes forever to get anywhere.  Then Friday was spent preparing younger missionaries for their 1st year legalization and balancing the petty cash that we handle as acting senior companionship (so yet again another day not spent working in our area). 

We thought we had balanced all the money out and we were home free for the next month or so, but than we get a call from president explaining that they would reopen and open a few new areas in the next transfer, meaning we have to start all over again and buy another two apartments. 

After this week, I've realized I would kill just to proselyte for an entire week.  But the show will go on I guess!  Simeon is doing real well, he comes to church every week and he is always looking slick in a suit. He still has stuff to work through but he accepted a date for the 24th to be baptized, which is really exciting. Please pray for him. 

As for me i am now legal in france and i got a sweet ID card coming in the mail.  Along with the ID, I will probably also be proven legally insane with all of this senior companion stuff going on that we have to deal with. But we're going to keep marching on!  

Elder Logan Robert Sackley 

home made security systems

elder okano loved conference

only girl for me

my tahitain brother elder nephi noho

week 61

yes folks yes folks

boooo Elder sackley no pictures again.  i even have picture to send but the computer is being weird so booo martinique right? no ok

Wow i feel like commentating on conference is unecessarry that was incredible.  Did anyone else watch the Q and A with the three new apostles?  I think it was a real testimony of this being the lords church and not a popularity contest or who we felt would be the cool or the "best" .  Watch the Q and A its great

I was writing dad earlier and trying to express to you all how it feels to be a missionary or write about a week or a day in what we do is impossible so ill just share the highlight or at least one of them.

  

So our investigator simeon the lawyer now working on his doctorate we had a break through.  We taught a really good restoration lesson you cannot beat the feeling of teaching a good first vision lesson the spirit fills the room.  So last week we taught  a really good restoration lesson.  At the end he said this is the only church for me but i dont feel like i need to be baptized again.  So the night before his lesson this past week i was praying for guidance and help i didnt know what to do.   the word FAST came to my head.  so at 10h25 at night i started a fast.  Next morning i woke up and we headed out the door at 8h for our first rendezvous.  Of course bus wasnt running so we walked three miles into town.  My companion was real hungry and thirsty understandibly and since i never had time to warn him he ate some boulangerie and i continued my fast.

Even with the sun and the walking all i could think about was this lesson it felt like i was about to fight mike tyson or something for the first time in a while i was a little nervous and excited for a lesson.  the whole lesson was spent in 3 nephi 11.  We analyzed every scripture and than it happened.

Simeon just looked at us and said "Elders you know i havent stopped thinking about what you have taught me.  I feel something so deeply for your church and i dont believe the pastor who baptized me had the authority or was even called of God.  i know this is the church for me."

My mouth just about hit the floor.  my goodness it felt like i had just gotten an anwser that the message was true too i was so happy i wanted to just bear tackle this man to the ground.  Keep simeon in your prayers this next week were hoping he can take the step in the next couple weeks.

love

elder logan robert sackley  

week 60

Well i just bought a camera so sorry again

Wow you can never get just a normal week of work out here.  So tuesday was district meeting so our church is actaully just an upstairs room in an industrial zone.  so i parked my car in the zone like usual and it started raining HARD.  nothing new though so we go to district meeting.  the parking lot got flooded but the cruze got out just fine.

Later in the day i had to come back for a skype meeting.  so we drove in and the zone was bone dry again.  parked the car.  and went to the meeting.  We came back out and hour later and the zone is flooded up to knee deep in water.  and poopy doopy the car got flooded bad.  I got in the car and drove it out of the water but 15 minutes later she gave up the ghost.  tow truck had to come and take her away.  like what the hack martinique just wrecked our car so now were on foot.  were averaging about 10 miles a day in the sun so im slimming down real fast ahaha.  

i have now had my window bashed in, two tires blow out, and my car flood since i became a driver.  i think its time for me to be released of my driver duties.

In other news our best investigator right now would have to be a man named simeon.  Hes been coming to church for about 3 months and he said to us he is no longer intrested in searching for any other church he has found his. meaning our church!  hes a lawyer he just got his masters and is starting a doctorate program so hes a champ. 10 points for griffindor.  hope youre all ready for SUPER SATURDAY/ SUNDAY best time of the year.  Bets on Elder Dube as apostle. 

Elder logan Robert sackley

week 59

well no pictures this week... my camera has given up the ghost

so ill probably buy one today if not next week but yeah sad day no pictures.  But good week!  Fort de France is going to split!

Since i have come up to Martinique it really hasnt made sense why one companionship covers all of fort de France.  It is HUGE and we can barely cover a fraction of it.  So since i got here elder belnap and I talked about how it would be better splitting fort de France.  So when president herrington visited Martinique a month or two ago i was with him in the car for a while and expressed what i felt was best for the zone in moving more people to fort de France.  I didnt get a whole lot of feed back but i put it out on the table.

Than when i went to Barbados he sat me and my comp down and asked us if he gave us 3 more companionships on Martinique where we would put them.  Elder okano was still new to the area so i let the charge.  all three of them in fort de France.  The Church is trying to centralize its efforts around its buildings.  So if people dont have cars they can walk to Church or bus at least.  So this week i got a call from president herrington and he said Elder sackley were splitting fort de France.  Make a new area but dont split fort de France in half were planning on putting more people there so make the area like a quarter of fort de France.  

I havent picked the name yet because i feel like the name has to be super fly and i cant make up my mind but its the Hood ahahha man its such a Hood area i love it.  i wish i was opening it its going to be ridiculous its right next to the Church.  so come tomorrow Elder chidester my old comp and first born in the wilderness is moving into our apartment  and training an Elder from the MTC that had no french training in the MTC.  im calling it project fort de France were pilling the missionaries in here its going to be sweet!

so will live four missionaries in our apartment till our lazy senior couple buys an apartment for the other missionaries.  ahhaah oh wait thats me.

Elder Logan Robert Sackley