Car, beer, golden idols. Week 13! :)

(July 11)

Hey family and friends!

I hope everyone had a great week! Mine was busy, but awesome.

I am in a new area, so I have been trying to get used to new people,

new roads, new companion, etc. We have a car which is awesome! I'm

pretty sure I'm gonna get fat though. :)) The zone I'm in is the

Granger zone but we're technically in West Valley. My companion is

Elder Clyde from California! He's awesome. I stayed with him and his

companion my first night in the mission! So that's pretty cool. :) we

live in a senior apartment complex now, which is pretty nice. We've

been having a blast. He goes home at the end of this transfer which

means by the end of this transfer I will have killed all of my

companions (again, missionary slang :).

The new area I'm in is awesome! The work here is bursting at the

seams, which is a pretty big change from Magna. There we worked with a

lot of less actives, which is good, but we had hardly any

investigators. Here, we have so many investigators that we don't have

much time to work with less actives! We have six people that are for

sure getting baptized this month which is AWESOME! There are just a

lot of people here that are ready to receive the gospel of Jesus

Christ. They call this area the promised land :)

At the beginning of this week I had my first mission leadership

conference. It was sooo good! The mission president invited a guest

speaker who was a Baptist preacher before he joined the church. He was

hilarioussss.  He had some really good insights from the perspective

of a convert about missionary work and lots of other things. He also

had some really good insights about the history of the priesthood and

blacks. He said that at first it was extremely hard for him, being

African American, but he talked about how he prayed and studied it a

lot, and was able to receive an understanding through the answers he

got to his prayers. It was a cool example of what we should do when we

have doubts about the church. God answers prayers! :)

Yesterday we got to go to temple square again. It was a blast! We

brought a member couple, a recent convert named Carlos and his wife

Mayte who is getting baptized on the 23, and three of their friends

who weren't members. All of them are from Colombia and all of them are

super fun. It's interesting because a bunch of the people we're

working with right now are de Colombia. But anyway, they all had a

really good experience going and we'll be teaching the three new ones

this week!

Last week I didn't have time to write about it, but our zone made a

little float and we were in the Magna parade! It was pretty fun. The

picture I sent last week was us when we were making the float. Good

times! The rest of that day Elder Gee and I spent visiting people and

packing! It was sad to be leaving everyone we have gotten close to!

Then the next morning I had to say bye to Elder Gee too. I'm gonna

miss that guy!

Well that's about it for the week! Excited to be in a new place doing

new things! It's been a busy week but I've enjoyed it a ton! He visto

muchas oraciones contestado esta semana y muchas nuevas oportunidades

para aprender y crecer! Se que Jesucristo vive! Espero que tengan una

buena semana! Hasta luego familia! Les quiero mucho!

Elder Baxter

 Us riding back to the church on the float :)

 Our lil float. Yep, that's Moroni up on the tower.

Meet Elder Clyde :)

No just kidding. He's just a new friend I made in the Asian market today.