Dear Family and Friends,
Happy belated Día de Pascua! I had a pretty good week this week! Here are some of the highlights:
Thursday and Friday-Nothing besides the ordinary p-day activities (laundry, house cleaning, gym time, etc.) and classes.
Saturday - Nothing much on Saturday either. We just had our normal classes and activities. We did have a short zone leadership meeting with all the teachers of our zone. It´s a little tricky because we have to do our reports completely in Spanish, but other than that its just a normal old meeting.
Sunday - Sunday we had a different schedule. They didn´t do a very good job about publishing the altered schedule though because there was a lot of confusion about where different branches were meeting. We did a lot of walking and ended up not being able to find our own branch and so we attended another branch´s meeting. It was also fast Sunday because of general conference, so that made the walking extra fun :) As usual we had a bunch of devotionals and the usual Sunday night movie. All the devotionals were about Jesus Christ and the resurrection. I teared up so many times! haha. The movie we watched was Joseph Smith, the prophet of the restoration. It´s different to watch it now as a missionary because the restoration is so critical to missionary work. It definately gave me a different perspective.
Monday - Up until Monday our practice lessons had only been with the teachers acting to be someone else. On Monday though, our district all had to create investigator profiles (based on someone we actually know) and so now we teach fellow missionaries too, bringing everyone to a total of 3 investigators each. It´s funny because it feels like its busy to prepare for three different investigators, but in Utah we´ll have so much more!
Tuesday - Only thing interesting about Tuesday was the Tuesday night devotional. We watched a talk given by Elder Nelson where he talked about focusing on families and getting people to the temple in our missionary work. It was really good.
Wednesday - We had TRC Wednesday night...only thing is we taught REAL INVESTIGATORS! It was really cool but a little scary too. It was a really cool experience because the day before while we were preparing, my companion and I were praying to find a specific chapter in the Book of Mormon that would apply specifically to the ''members'' needs. We both felt really good about sharing Mosiah chapter 5. but then when we found out we were going to be teaching real investigators, we kind of panicked a little and we were debating about whether we needed to change our lesson plan to teach the restoration. We ended up not changing it, and when we began talking to the family and trying to find their needs, the father said he believes in God but has a hard time believing in Christ and he wasn´t sure if Christ was really his savior or if he needed Christ. He also wasn´t sure if God, Christ and the Holy Ghost were separate. Well Mosiah 5 was the perfect chapter to explain and emphasize the need for Christ, and we also shared the scripture in Luke where Christ is baptized by John the Baptist to show to explain that they were separate beings, but one in purpose. Anyway, I don´t know if the lesson changed his life right then and there, but I think he felt God´s love, and I felt the Spirit testifying to me of what we taught, so hopefully he did too :) Despite how awesome the lesson was, TRC was a little discouraging for me because during both lessons (especially the second) I had a really hard time understanding what they were saying and I kept having to ask them to repeat or clarify. I also couldn´t remember where one of the scriptures was that I was trying to share, which was a tiny bit embarassing. Anyway, I learned a ton, but I also learned how much more I have to learn, so it was a little bit discouraging. Overall it was a good TRC though.
Love,
Elder Baxter
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