Hey family and friends!
How's everyone doing? We had a pretty good week this week. Its been starting to get colder and there's snow on the mountains! So I'm trying to get myself mentally prepped for winter :) Also we got transfer calls and I'm going back to my greenie area! I'll be district leader and be follow up training a new missionary, Elder Page! (Follow up training is just when the greenie has a different trainer for the second transfer). So I'm pretty excited about that, plus it'll be fun to go back and see some familiar faces. Sadly, I got news this past week from Elder Gee that Jose Andrade died of his cancer. His family could use lots of prayers.
This week we spent almost two full days helping some sisters in our zone take care of a bed bug problem. The whole house got infested and the sisters were starting to get bug bites all over their faces and arms and stuff, it was getting pretty bad. So we helped them move to a members house to stay for a little while while the mission looked for a new apartment and then the next day cleaned out the whole apartment and took everything inside to the dump. We had to use the mission truck and trailer and it was a pretty extensive job! The assistants helped us though, and we had a pretty good time being destructive and chucking stuff into the dump of course :) We also got permission from sister Palmer to sell a really nice weight set they had sitting in their apartment, so we've been enjoying some extra funds :)
We had some pretty good lessons this week. Adrian and Ericka are still progressing, but they seem to be a little bit scared of baptism itself. Ericka literally has a fear of water. But I feel pretty confident we'll be able to work through it. I'm a little sad I wont be in the area anymore to keep teaching them. Sonia isnt doing so great. She has started to miss a lot of lessons and she hasn't come to church in several weeks, so it looks like were gonna have to drop her. We found a lot of new people to teach recently though, so hopefully Elder Andersen and Cienfuegos will have some solid investigators this transfer.
Today for P-day we went to Top Golf (using some of our extra funds :). It was super fun! Its basically a giant driving range but there's targets on the ground that you have to try to hit, and you get points based on how close to the center of the target you hit, and how far away the target is. I'll include a picture below. I'm slowly getting better at golf haha. :)
On Saturday we were having a little bit of a rough day. A ton of our appointments had been cancelled, and it was pouring rain. We had both kind of lost some of our motivation since everything seemed to be going against us. But, we hopped in the car, and went to try and make a couple visits. The song Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing came on and it changed the mood of the night completely. We both felt the spirit strongly and felt that we were doing the right thing, even though we didn't know exactly who we needed to talk or what we needed to do. We ended up having a great night!
Thats about it for the week! Haha I just realized that I never sent the address for this apartment. Oh well! My new address is 8543 S. Elk Run Mountain Rd. Magna Utah, 84044 Apt. #619
Love you all! Keep it real!
Elder Baxter
We got pranked...the house looked like it got robbed :)
My companion reading the "short" list of possible side effects of a medicine :)
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