My companion is from Houston. His name is Elder Bleazard. As far as what our address is, I am still working on that. I am in the middle of nowhere. But, we live with two old guys and a dog named Gismo. It is a pretty good set up.
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| Elder Bleazard looks like Pearce Brosnan |
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| Gizmo! Our roomie! |
We had a crazy week.
Tuesday was a bomb day. We got referred to us a sweet person who is about to be baptized. It was like manna from heaven. Haha! We have worked so hard. We also had some sweet lessons. It was a good way to kick it off to the new zone leader coming in. I felt good about leaving after that. We had worked so hard to build up the area and right at the end things started happening.
Wednesday was transfer day and that is always a headache and a half. Getting to the transfer site at like 7AM, making sure everyone gets there and waking up super early to get there. Then we get to the mission office and we unload and we make sure there are some people driving others to their new areas. Then that afternoon we made plans for after the transfer. We taught a less active and we brought her visiting and home teachers over and that went really well. At first we were really bummed out because we didn't get to teach her because our visit was just spent talking. But it worked out somehow. She was invited to the women's broadcast and she went, and had a great time. That was like her first time back to church since she was 9!
Thursday we had a sweet day. We worked hard to get to everything we had. Elder Bleazard and I both want to family.(not sure what this means). It is something we feel that we can do here. We then went to the ward council ministry night and the bishop gave us a few names of people to go. Those people were’nt home, but, we were able to find an investigator who has been really hard to contact.
Friday was really great! We did service at a food bank. Then we taught a part member family and at the very beginning the father said he was not an investigator. But by the end of our meeting he said that he would like to investigate. It was a pretty awesome spirit that was definitely working on this guy. And we planned for our week and made some good plans. This day is when the real miracles happened. Friday night we were supposed to have a lesson with Brandon. He had to cancel on us but we invited him to come to a baptism Saturday morning. He said he would come and check it out. We had a few members pray that he would have a special experience at the baptism. And he came and had a great experience there, and he was really grateful that we invited him. After the baptism we gave him a quick church tour. That was the icing on the cake for him. He felt the spirit of the baptism and then when we toured the chapel, he felt it even more. He said he was planning on coming to church this week.
Sunday was awesome because Brandon came to church! He loved Sacrament Meeting, but had to leave right after. He said next time he would bring his son and he's going to stay for all three hours. The members did great in helping him get fellowshipped!
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| Our home - Numbers strangely looking like a house number..... |
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| Picture from a hike in Portland |
Elder Astle
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