Hey fam!
Monday during the zone activity we made hobo dinners! It's when you
throw a bunch of different ingredients into a package of tinfoil and
throw it into the fire to cook! It's been a long time and it was super
delicious! :) we got to play some basketball and soccer as well, so it
was a pretty fun day! Tuesday started off pretty bad though haha. We
accidentally slept in and got behind on our schedule for the day,
somehow everyone in the house either slept through their alarm or it
didn't go off. But once we did get going we did our best to catch up
and work hard, and it ended up being a miracle day! When we went out
we ran into this young man that is a member of an English ward but who
speaks Spanish that we've been trying to get to come out with us on a
teaching visit. Well it's been hard because he doesn't have a phone,
but we just happened to run into him and he was available to go out
with us that night at 6! So we took advantage even though we didn't
have any set lessons planned. When six o clock rolled around we picked
up Dennis and went to go contact a less active referral we had just
gotten. He was home AND let us in! He told us later that we were the
first missionaries he's let into his house in a long time! And it
turns out that Dennis, our member present is from Guatemala just like
the person we were visiting! It was just one of those things where
everything fell into place perfectly. It was awesome!
Later on that day we were biking toward our last visit attempt for the
day when we biked past Ivan and his family cleaning out their car.
Again, the circumstances were just too perfect!! We decided to stop
instead of going to our last visit and we ended up helping the, for
the rest of the night. We gained a lot of trust with his dad and so we
hope that will help allow Ivan to get baptized at some point in the
future.
Wednesday we had Zone Conference. Our mission president just had to go
through a knee surgery recently, so he was only able to be there for
the beginning of the the conference. It was way different without him!
Usually he bursts into random spurts of doctrine at random points
throughout the conference spitting off a bunch of awesome scriptures,
so it was different to not have him there. But it was still awesome!
We talked about the Book of Mormon as well as integrity and how it
affects our effectiveness as missionaries. It was awesome! We learned
about how to present the Book of Mormon better so that investigators
can realize that the Book of Mormon really is another testament of
Jesus Christ and that, just like the Bible, it is a compilation of
communications from God to his prophets and people in another part of
the world.
Thursday we had a wayyy better weekly planning than last week. It was
really good. It seems like the better your weekly planning is, the
better your week is. So that was a victory! That night we had an
AWESOME lesson with the Piñon family! We have the perfect
fellowshipping family in our ward that have been through a lot of the
same things the Piñon family has been through. We introduced e Book of
Mormon to them and talked a bit about baptism. It was a huge success!
We're excited for them.
Friday I went back to the good old Royal Ann ward on exchanges! This
time I was with Elder Degraw who I haven't served around much, so it
was fun to get to meet someone new! We had a goal of finding two new
investigators together. I felt like we tried our best but it didn't
end up happening. :( But we had a lesson with the Hernandez family and
it was awesome! Hna. Hernandez finally got baptized on Saturday and I
got to go! It was a super spiritual experience, just like Hno.
Hernandez and the kids' baptism. And it was super fun to reunite with
everyone! Elder Tanner was there as well so it felt just like the good
old days. It was awesome!
Saturday before the Baptism we did tons of service. It was good! But
we didn't have time for ANYTHING else. After we got back from the
baptism we had our first lesson with this guy who randomly texted and
wanted to meet us and talk about the church. It was awesome! We gave
him a tour of the chapel and then taught him the restoration. He said
it made it a lot of sense but he wanted to read the Book of Mormon
first which is exactly what he needs to do to find out if it's true so
we're pretty excited for him.
Sunday we spent biking ALL OVER. And it was pretty hot. But we enjoyed
it! We were pretty tired at the end of the day. And today we're just
chilling at a members house playing ping-pong, foosball and air hockey!
It's been pretty relaxed. My type of p-day :)
Love you all! Everything here is going great! Time is still flying and
I'm loving the mission more and more every day! Thanks for all the
love and support!
Love,
Elder Baxter
Zone Conference!
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