April 25

Sup Y'all,

Pretty good week.  Just a couple quick highlights for ya so as not to bore you.  Well mostly so that more people will read it.  We'll jump to Thursday.  Found a part member family where there is two primary girls who aren't baptized so we started teaching them and the 11 year old said that she will be baptized next month if not the month after!  So exciting!  Both came to church and had a great time!  

Saturday we had a car wash at the church where the youth washed cars and we gave church tours and it was awesome!  Lots of potentials from that.  Especially for Elder Millard.  He knows ASL and this 22 year old woman who could speak came in so Elder Millard took her on the tour with me just silently following.  Super cool to see though.  At the end he was asking to exchange numbers so we could share more about Jesus and she thought he was trying to pick her up.  HAHAHAHAHAHA made my day! 

Then we got to go play with legos!  Well help put giant lego cities away from some urban city competition.  Quick sad side story.  We had a member buy and cook us porterhouse steaks for dinner Saturday night and on my first bite I choked and threw up in the sink a couple of times.....the member will not let me forget it either.  We had a lot of less active's and investigators come to church on Sunday so that was definitely a giant blessing and miracle.

So yeah that's about all I got for ya this week.  Have a great week!  Always remember that you are a Child of God and so is each person you see.  So treat them as such.

Strive Not To Be A Success, Righteous Ryan

Hey Y'all

Lots of stuff this week so I will just try to hit a few highlights.  Tuesday we had zone training and learned a lot of good stuff.  Had dinner with a part member family and oh my heck it was so hilarious.  I felt bad for my companion cause he was trying to share a short spiritual message but they were just making too many jokes.  Out of that I did learn that I have level 7 hair and that hair stylists love my hair. 

Wednesday we met with an investigator who was slightly drunk and just went off about how Elder Millard just lies to him cause of Elder Millard's nervous ticks. hahaha He thought I was so honest and such a great guy.  So we came up with the names "Little Liar Logan" and "Righteous Ryan".  hahaha Such a funny lesson.  Had a really spiritual dinner though with a couple.  We taught them about being Children of God and from that lesson we have received three referrals.  Super great member missionaries!

Saturday night we got a call from a member of the YSA group presidency asking for one of us to give a talk yesterday and the other to teach Sunday school.  So after an intense game of rock, paper, scissors I gave the talk.  Never been so happy to give a talk in sacrament in my life hahaha.  Don't worry I tried to help teach as much as I could in Sundayschool. 

So there is ya a few highlights and funny moments from my week.  Here is a few pictures that I thought y'all would enjoy.  Have a great week and in the words of Elder Millard "Live the law of conservation!"  (I don't know what that means either)

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Elder Funk

Remember who you are and what HE stands for!

Our Future Missionary Friend

​That moment where you try to make a motivational planner cover and it turns into an epic fail....​

Be ye therefore telepathic

Hey y'all

Great week this week.  Let me tell ya all about it!  Monday we hung out with Brother Forster and sister thomas.  Super sick people!  They took us out to get crab and shrimp and a lot of it.  So much seafood....but very very good.  Tuesdaysaid goodbye to some sick people and had dinner with the McGovern's for the last time.  So sick!  They took us out to get bison burgers.  Delicious.  Wednesday I left pensacola and Elder Millard and I moved into the Niceville apartment.  Come to find out the area we are reopening the area and we walk into almost nothing!  We have no supplies to hand out and no food to eat.  That was a bittersweet moment.  But the ward mission leader invited us to his home for dinner and we got a great grip on how the ward works and he is such a stud!

Thursday, Friday, and Saturday we spent most of the days fixing the map and area book so that this area can function properly.  We have become quite unified in doing so though.  Elder Millard was trying to say that we had telepathy but it came out telepathetic and so we made a sign of it and hung it on our wall.  hahaha so there is the title for you.

Sunday was interesting.  We went to church and it was packed!  Double over flow.  60 active youth members and it was just insane the sight!  I loved it!  Then we hung around so that we could attend the YSA ward which we are also in charge of.  Super cool experience with a returning member there.  He had been home for a couple years and went less active and then called his mission president for his endorsement for some military medal and his president committed him to church so he came and jumped right back in.  He even got up and bore his testimony!  What a stud!  So yeah that was our week.  Hilarious fun and full of work.  (we still aren't unpacked) 

Have a great week!

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Elder Funk

Remember who you are and what HE stands for!

​I think I'm quite ready for another adventure (yes those are boots tied to my back pack with a tie.)​

Brother Forster and Sister Thomas

The McGoverns

Yes, my boots are tied on with a tie

Transferring to Niceville

Hey y'all

Up and down week this week but ended very very well.  We weren't able to get a whole lot of teaching done but did have a lot of success.  Most of the downs of this week were brought about by selfishness....some in me but a lot in others (I say this not pridefully but as a cation to the very real and destructive powers that it has)  We were told by our leaders to get the car on a day that we don't have it so that we could get more training from them in their area on a trade-off and they would not work with anything we tried to offer them to make it fair.  I was so upset and pissed by the whole situation.  I am eternally grateful for a companion who had compassion and was able to work things out while I prayed and prayed for a softer heart.  In the end things worked out and prayers were answered.

On a more uplifting note.  General conference was incredible!  I had prayed for days for questions and within the first session all of my questions were answered and so I prayed in between every session with more questions and got the answers every time.  I have no doubt that the Lord is mindful of little ol' Elder Funk.

Sunday night I found out that I will be getting transferred to Niceville, Florida.  Whitewashing in with Elder Millard.  Super excited!  Love that guy and we will be doing great work!  Anyway looking forward to a great week!  Love y'all.

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Elder Funk

Remember who you are and what HE stands for!

Elder Millard and I at Zone Conference

I don't need most of the bike to make it work.....

Michael Jackson and Ecuadorian Food

Hey y'all,

Good week this week.  We had a lot of success finding getting four new investigators.  Well there was so much teaching that I don't know what of it to talk about so I guess some of the best parts were Friday night going out with Bro. McArthur to see a referral from the sisters and his approach is awesome.  So bold and forward with people but in such a loving way.  We talked with him for a while afterward about how we can become more like that and got a lot of great new insight that I am excited to apply. 

Sunday we had a great priesthood lesson about parenting from the talk 'It's never too early, and it's never too late' by Elder Foster at this past conference.  Still being single I learned so much from it and gained valuable future insights for my posterity.    Then later we went to visit a referral Micheal Jackson.  He's back!  not really but this guy was a super cool guy who plays music for his apostolic church.  So close enough for me.  hahaha Later that night we got fed some Ecuadorian food from a member.  Super good stuff haha.  so yeah that's about all I got this week.  There was a lot of rain the days we didn't have the car so we got wet but it was all fun.

Funk for President 2036

Hey Y'all,

Pretty great week this week.  Monday had another really great experience praying.  I completely felt the Savior's love for a former investigator from campus.  Just the feeling of doing anything for them even suffering pain and agony.  Granted I can not do that but if I could I would.  It was such a powerful experience.

Wednesday we had zone conference with President and Sister Smith.  It was a great time and the pictures will let you know how I enjoyed it hahaha.  Unfortunately after that wonderfully spiritually uplifting conference I got into a bash with a referral....granted I "won" but no one really wins there....  I did find out through the guy I was bashing with that I have a solid testimony of what I am preaching and that I wan't going to be swayed.  So there was a bright side to the bash.  

I think I will just leave y'all with some pictures and call it good for this week.  Be good, love Jesus, and always tie down your washer and dryers.

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Elder Funk

Remember who you are and what HE stands for!

The south for ya....

Yeah, that's right Funk for President 2036

The Ole Zone

That's the south for ya

I do have a spiritual side

Hey Y'all

So this week was a great one and very spiritual so in my laziness I will just send most of the email that I wrote to my mission President with a few additions at the end.

This week has been one of the most spirtually strengthening weeks of my life. Monday I prayed for knowledge on how to have more success. I received the answer that I need to talk to more people and testify to 1000 people by the end of my mission. Tuesday at District Meeting the spirit brought to my heart the command to be a consecrated missionary. So strong and powerful was the influence that I could not deny it. Wednesday we had lesson after lesson of great spiritual impact. Not only for me but for our investigators. Thursday during personal study I read Elder Callister's talk 'A consecrated Missionary'. Powerful insight into my mission and devotion. I have dedicated myself to becoming such by: removing all "negative bone(s)", relying on my God given reserve tanks to give my all each day, give no excuse for lack of effort but change the nature of that wrong, look at the white handbook as a book of blessings, to talk to everyone I meet, and to lay everything on the alter of sacrifice once again and for the last time. For it is in giving our all that the Lord will give us His all. Friday we had a bunch of plans fall through and we were led up a wrong street that ran us into an inactive part member family from Perdido who wanted to take us to dinner! They are such a sweet little family and would embrace the gospel if they were ever home enough for the Elders to go teach them. That day we were also able to do family history with a returning member and were working on getting her deceased son's information so that his temple work could get done. Saturday her daughter went to the temple and saw her brother in every room except the celestial room and was told to hurry and get his work done so that he could join them in the celestial room! Finally the ward has undergone an incredible change. The Bishop promised everyone that would put forth the work to help the new ward grow a miracle! I felt the spirit so strongly during that. I am so glad to have been apart of this ward. 

I did get a new bike Tuesday on a trade off.  I also went super hard on working out.  Since we don't have weight bars to do squatting we just use each other.  So I squatted Elder Hildebrandt and he squatted me.  hahahaha weird but fun and strengthening.   Poor Hildebrandt though hahaha.  Got rained on a lot but it was all good and fun.  That's about all I got for y'all this week.  

Quote of the Week:

The separation is in the preparation

-Russel Wilson via Derryl Stolworthy