Wildlife in Morehead City North Carolina

Kent and his companion hunted a rat down inside their place.  I'm sure it was a great adventure, but from mom's across the world,  we scream out NOOOOOOOOOOOOO!

I think I will send them a care package so the rats don't look appetizing.

This is just,,,,,,yuck!!!!

April 12 2013

Elder Masulonis has reached another milestone in his mission.  He has now valiantly severed for 18 months.  
Kent is a leader and teacher to other missionaries and had been an example of obedience. We have watched him grow into a man of faith and integrity as he overcomes challenges and feels the joy of serving the Lord and the fruits of his labors.   Kent has a testimony of the atonement and the reality and power it offers to all God's children.  We are very proud of Kent and the example he is to the rest of his family. We love and miss him and are very excited to welcome him home in 6 months.

Baptism!!!

3-18-2013

Elder Pettitt and i have been trying our very best to find new people to teach with virually no success. this has been quite the trial for me. but we have continued to be faithful through it. and as we have done so, this trial has been like a fire. it has been painful, constent but also purifying. recently i have had alot of very uplifting spiritual experiencs. i can feel that good is on its way for both of us. i know that god is ever watchfull over us and loves us more than we can understand.

Also on another note, let me tell you about the mission and how the mission is going to be changing withing the next few months. so by october, the NCRM will have a total of about 250 missionaries. a little over 60 of them will be sister missionaries. just so you can get a better idea of how big of an idea that is, before the new age change, there were less than probably 15 sister missionaries. also on top of us getting so many new missionaries, our mission is recucing in size by about 1/4th. we have 8 zones in our mission, but there will only be 6 zones after june. so there may be a chance that i will be going to the virginia mission. i will not know however untill the june transfer. so since there will be more missionaries and less space to put them in, that will mean that there will be an average of at least 2-3 stes of missionaries per ward. wow, that is incredible to think about. especially because in the ward im serving in and several others in the mission already have 3 sets of missionares in them. so i can only assume that in the future there may be some wards that have 5-7 sets of missionaries in them. crazy right? this will probably also mean that many of the zones will be split and there will become even more zones. all of this is so wild for me. i can easily say that in the future there will be new wards and even some new stakes made in this mission and probably even all around the world. especially since the mission i am in is one of the lower baptizing missions in the south east missions. it is truely incredible. my mind is being blown. its like the joking dreams that missionaries have about the work going so much better are comming true. its fun for me to play with the idea of how much this will effect the work. like just think that if each missionary in the mission baptized 1 person within the whole year, the total of people could just about make up a whole new ward. that being said, it is common for missionaries in this mission to baptize around an average of 5-6 people a year. meaning that within one year of this, there could very wel be many more stakes made in a short amount of time. i am so curious on how everything is going to work out.

Elder Masulonis

Release date set!!

We just received a letter from Kent's mission president informing us that his release date is October 9th. I thought I would post this update for all those who are following his blog.

Feb 18-2013

Ok so here is some stuff that has been happening lately.

this month we had a snow storm. this one was probably one of the biggest ones that ive had while ive been out here. there was only maybe an inch, so i bet you can guess how much it snows out here. i was trying to send you a video of the snow ans stuff like that, but the file was too big for the email. the snow out here scares everyone. and even though it only snowed like an inch, the next day, some wards canceled church and others like ours, combined and only did sacrament meeting. but of course i cant blame anyone for being scared about the snow our here. the roads are crazy, they dont have very much snow removal stuff, and everyone out here drive crazy any way. like it could be a hurricane and people would still be driving like theres not a cloud in the sky. so it makes me a little nervous to drive in bad conditions because of everyone else, but you do it anyway. looking back on it, its been so long since ive driven in snow that i probably have forgotten how to drive in snow too. speaking of driving, elder pettitt and i got a call this week saying that since elder pettitt doesnt have a drivers license, and there are going to be alot of new missionaries comming in soon, he will be getting a drivers license soon. the neat thing about it, is that i will be the one that will be teaching him how to drive. so i better do a good job if i want my son to live longer than me. hahaha:)

i got the package that everyone sent from back at home. i thought the shirt was pretty funny. there is actually an interesting story that goes along with me getting that package. so the right before i got that package, i was a little concerned for elder pettitt because he was feeling a little down because we havent had an investigator for a while now and it seemed like he was getting a little discouraged. so in my prayers, i felt like i should just pray for him with everything that came to my mind. and one of the things that came to my mind was that he would get some mail from home. and surely enough the next day to my amazement, he actually got a package in the mail that had letters from his family and everything. and in that same day, i got the package from you guys. so i found that the principal to be true that you cant help someone else without helping yourself. i also relearned that the things that are right for us and that we pray for will happen.

prayer has been one of my best friends lately. i have been praying harder this last week that i have in a long time. and its not just that we are going through a hard time. the big part of it is just that i feel like praying alot. its like the more you have faith, the easier it is too keep it going. i hope that things arent too crazy back at home. im not sure on whats going on. but i will be prraying for you and the family. again, i really liked the pictures. and i hope that things get better from whatever is happening back at home. i love you so much and i hope to hear from you soon. :)

-LOVE ELDER MASULONIS

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