Hey everyone!
Wow it's been a crazy week! But a good one! We've found some new
people to teach, shed our bikes, and tracted like crazy! It's getting
super hot here, and wearing dress slacks raises the temperature like
10 degrees! But life is good and the work moves forward!
Mondayyyy - We just did our normal shopping, writing, p day stuff! We
watched a movie called risen that just barely got approved by our
mission president! It felt weird to be watching a movie but it was
pretty good! After p day we had a lesson with Alicia and also Ruben
Marquez! Sad part of the day was that Elder Gee popped the tire on his
bike...we tried to repair it, but the hole was too big to repair...so
we've been on foot all week!
Tuesday - We ate lunch with a senior couple in our zone that Elder Gee
used to serve with, along with the other Spanish elders in our zone.
It was fun! Highlight of the event: I used a bidet!! ✅ Haha it was
super weird! But Elder Gee told me before hand that they had one, so
of course I wasn't gonna leave the house without asking to use the
bathroom! ;) In between lunch and dinner we did a bunch of visits in
the trailer park. It was HOT! After dinner we went tracting in a new
apartment building with Hermano Carrasco (only one person slammed the
door on us!:) and finished off the day with two quick visits to some
less active sisters.
Wednesday - we started the day off at the mission office! We got some
supplies and Elder Gee had a departing interview with president! I got
to hang out and talk to the missionaries that were passing through :)
we went home for lunch to find out that Fabian cancelled the last
lesson we were gonna have with him before we passed him off to the
sisters in the YSA ward. The only other lesson we had that day was
with Hermana Andrade--we had technically dropped her, but we still
pass by every once in a while to read the Book of Mormon with her. It
was a good lesson, and we could tell that she enjoyed it, but she
doesn't usually read unless we do it with her, which is too bad.
Thursday - we started off the day with our stake president barking at
a dog. I mean giving a blessing to someone. Haha. But on the way
President Kessler randomly stuck his head out the window and started
barking at this neighborhood dog, it was hilarious 😂 The blessing was
for a lady named Tammy. I think I talked about her a long time ago.
She and her family are in a really hard situation and she's having
some health problems. She's crazy. Lessons with her husband (who
speaks Spanish) are always an adventure because Tammy tends to come in
and start talking about random stuff and gets heated about it. Last
Sunday Elder Gee made a bet with me that it was impossible to have a
thirty minute lesson with them, and of course I said I could do it no
problem :) So we decided that whoever lost would have to make
breakfast for the other for the rest of the week. Well, I lost. I was
pretty upset. Anyway, the rest of that day was filled with planning,
coordination with a senior couple in our area, and 3 lessons! One
lesson was with Guadalupe, the other two were with new people that we
just found! One is a non member lady named Adela (mom of Luis who we
finally met!) the other is a less active family, la familia Ruiz. All
the lessons were great and we're excited to have some new people to
teach!
Friday - we went to the gym for morning workout, showered there, went
to McDonald's and then went straight to church to do our studies so
that we would be there early for district meeting. District meeting
was really good! Elder Gee divided the district into two groups and he
trained one while I trained the other and then we switched! It was a
little stressful to plan for, but other than that it was good! Later
on we had a lesson with Hermana Alicia where we taught the 10
commandment lesson. It was a good lesson! Nothing extra special to
report for that. The pictures with the kids were from that lesson :)
her kids love us to death, sometimes it's hard to teach the lesson
haha.
Saturday - We walked all the way to the Contreras family's house for
our 11 o clock lesson and they weren't home. :/ We've still been
having a hard time meeting with them. So we ended up walking a little
farther down the road to Hermano Carrasco's house where we ate lunch
and finished our studies. After that we had to book it across town so
that Elder Gee could have a temple recommend interview...we walked as
fast as physically possible without actually running. And it was
blazing hot. Good times :) for the rest of the day we just made a
couple visits, and had a lesson with Jose. The last little while he's
been feeling pretty sick so we haven't seen him in a while. But he
seemed to be doing a lot better! After that we finished tracting the
new apartments with Hermano Carrasco. Surprisingly nothing too crazy
happened! We did meet some pretty cool people though.
Sundayyy- pretty much just a normal Sunday! Nothing exciting except
that we got two really good referrals from a member! We have yet to
contact them, but the member said that she thinks they are willing and
very ready to hear the Restored Gospel of Jesus Christ, so we have
high hopes!
This week we've seen our prayers answered! We've been praying to find
some new people to teach, and we are starting to see the results! Im
so grateful that Heavenly Father loves all of us enough to answer our
prayers! Hope you all have an awesome week! Thanks for all the prayers
and letters!
Love you all!
Elder Baxter
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