December 12 Letter

Heyyy family!

Here's the transfer news! I'm going back to ZL and my new companion is Elder Espinoza. I already know him pretty well so it will be fun :) The new ward is called the Royal Ann ward. I'm sad to leave my son Elder Rodriguez without even finishing his training, but it will be fun cause I will get to go on exchanges with him! My new address will be 4748 W 4175 South APT #3 West Valley City UT 84120-4968

Monday:

We had a pretty fun, pretty busy p-day today. We woke up, started some laundry and then headed out with the zone to play some Top Golf, and then on a hike to Ensign Peak as well. I'll include some pictures below and I think I included some last week from top golf. We came home with the zone leaders to change into pro-clothes (proselyting clothes) to go shopping but when we came back out of our apartment, we discovered that a lady in our apartment complex needed her car jumped, and then when the zone leaders jumped it, the car supposedly locked automatically with the keys and the little baby in it. So we spent some time trying to help her unlock the car with a hanger we got from the apartment until her husband got home from work with a spare set of car keys. Once that got solved we headed off to sams club with a member that the zone leaders knew, and then went to a church building with the zone for the rest of p-day. That night we had an awesome lessons with Luis Dominguez and his family, and Gloria Trajera. Everyone was there and engaged in the lesson. Lessons with the whole family together are always special...it brings a special spirit seeing the family together. We also had a bomb lesson with Gloria. Man, she is so prepared. She understands everything so well and the kids love it when we come over. She basically taught us the whole plan of salvation after us only teaching it once, a couple of days earlier. We were able to go a little more in depth since everyone understood everything.

Tuesday

Tuesday was kind of a hard day for some reason. We spent a lot of time indoors cuz we had to update our area book and that took awhile. I didn't really like it, but it was something that needed to be done. After we finished we waited outside for a couple minutes for Hno Carrasco to come and help us deliver a couch that he had sitting in his house to a family in need. We stopped by their house to see if they were home first and it turned out that that had just went out and bought some couches on a credit card a couple days earlier. But it was good to say hello to them and see how they were doing. After that we went to the church because one of the English wards was having a Christmas party and we got invited to help set up and to go around and meet some of the people in that ward. We were hoping it would be a productive use of time, and it certainly wasn't bad, but we didn't get any referrals or anything like that. We left before the clean up to go to a lesson with Guadalupe. The lesson was alright, it wasn't the best that we've had with her. She does have the desire to come back, but her progress is just so slow and sometimes it almost seems like she doesn't care to come back. I was a little discouraged after the lesson, but Elder Rodriguez said he didn't feel that way and that I shouldn't either. Afterward we headed back to the church to see if Hno Carrasco was there and would give us a ride back. He roped us into staying for the setting apart of missionary that's departing from from our ward.  His family had invited the whole ward and it was really nice! It brought back memories to see him get set apart. It was a little weird to participate in the setting apart of a missionary AS a missionary, but it was good. We made it home right at 9:30 and Elder Jacobe and Griffin were already at our apartment with the zone leaders ready to start exchanges. We had a good time talking and messing around for a little bit, and then I headed off to their area with Jacobe and left my only begotten hijo to take over the area for the first time with Griffin.

Wednesday

I woke Jacobe up and we talked for a while so he wouldn't fall asleep again haha. It was super freezing all day. Probably my coldest yet! We had a lot of fun though. We taught two great lessons and had a correlation. It was a fun day.

Thursday

Weekly planning and then some lessons. One with Hatziry and the other with the Flores family. Not much else to say

Friday we had district meeting and had a "funeral" for hermana Riding who does this transfer. We had a great lesson with Gloria again and then one later on with Miguel Moreno.

Saturday

We got transfer calls! In the morning. Then we had short exchanges with the ZLs and I got to be with Espinoza! It was fun to be with my comp for a short stint.

Sunday!

Lots of people to church and it was an awesome day. I gave a little adios testimony and had a last Sunday lunch with Hermano Carrasco.

I'm out of time but I love you all! 

Love,

Elder Baxter

Elder Jacobe made this for me and my son :)