Ohio Columbus Mission February 2013 to June 2013
Ohio Cincinnati Mission July 2013 to February 2015

Monday, July 14, 2014

Wedding Planning and Chalk Art


Well poop. Out of time again. But the short scoop of my life as a missionary in Cincinnati is that things are going good. Elder Garcia and I have been doing well together the past few days. Our teaching pool is growing as we're finding good people to teach. One day we'll get them to church. We're looking forward to interviews with president this Wednesday. The members are still awesome and the gospel is true :)

P.S. we had a sweet lesson teaching a bunch of drunk guys yesterday haha we were just super bold with them and told them that we could help them change their lives through the gospel. We were like "do you want to change or not? Do you want to keep falling into the same problems over and over? Do you want to keep getting drunk every weekend or do you want to improve your life?" It was like 5 drunk guys listening to us intently for an hour. It was pretty fun haha I'm not sure why I told you that... haha Bye! Until next week!

Love you!  Elder Graf

Did I already send you guys this? Oh well. Two weeks ago we had the first monthly all Spanish zone meeting. (Normally the Spanish elders would go to the nearest English zone meeting) It was great to see everyone there.

Elder and Sister Nelson are the best! They fed us dinner Saturday night. They sent us home with food that we are still trying to finish to this day!  

Here are pictures from the wedding of one of our investigators! This happened on the Sunday before yesterday and we planned it literally the day before and up until the moment it was happening. Even though it wasn't ever meant to be anything extravagant I still have one take away from this experience - I will organize my wedding with PLENTY of time to spare.

So the family is awesome. They’ve come to tour the chapel with us, they've come to the ward picnic, to half of a baptismal service, to ward activities in the church gym, and now they've been married within the walls of the church. They've literally done everything except come to church service on Sunday. The father got called into work last minute... again. But we'll get them there this week! It's going to happen I know it is!


[Kevin's mission did chalk art for the 4th of July and as a way to talk to people on the holiday. I like the "you are here" on the earth.] We went to a park in downtown Cincinnati right next to the Cincinnati Reds Baseball stadium. They played a game that evening so we had lots of people to talk to. We did it as a zone. It was a fun time! Here is earth and part of the three glories. They are a little bit hard to see because of the light sorry!