Hey Family and Friends!
Another week has flown by! Man, time is like a vortex in the mission!
It's crazy how fast it goes. This week a lot happened! It was really
good!
Sunday we got the opportunity to go to our stake mission prep class!
This stake does a really good job with it! It's where a bunch of youth
go and learn about missionary work to prepare for when they go out to
preach the gospel of Jesus Christ themselves. It was really awesome!
We got asked to do an impromptu role play about how to begin teaching
someone. It was a huge success! It's fun to be around the youth, I
love it. A couple of them already have mission calls and are heading
out pretty soon so it's an awesome group.
Saturday we didn't have as much service as usual. It was a nice
change! Elder Lavea's bike chain broke the day before though, so we
were on foot and getting absolutely baked! It was a little bit of a
hard day for me though. For some reason it was harder to street
contact that day, and since I was used to being on a bike everything
just felt super slow. We did end up doing a little bit of service for
someone that night with some other missionaries. We were basically
tearing up somebody's whole front yard. Then to finish off the day we
changed in a chapel and went and visited a less active family and
shared a short message since it was already almost nine. We talked
about the atonement and how we can always backtrack and, through Jesus
Christ, be forgiven and have help to fix our mistakes. It was really
awesome. They have a lot of challenges with coming to church so we're
trying to motivate them and help them to come back.
Friday....soooo I had no idea what to do for district meeting. Ideas
just were not coming to me. So I did my best just to study and prep
and then we went to the meeting hoping that the spirit would guide! I
was a little nervous haha. But we got there and it ended up being
great! We talked a lot about Alma 26 which talks about all the stuff
that missionaries go through. It's pretty cool! For the rest of the
day I was on exchanges with Elder Galo! It was really fun. We found a
lot of people at home, had an unplanned lesson with an investigator,
helped someone move for about an hour, and also found a new
investigator! It was a day full of little miracles like that. I loved
it!
So on Thursday's we always visit the Piñon family. They're super
awesome but they just have so much stuff going on that it's hard to
help them progress! They haven't been able to make it to church at all
even though they want to. So we're trying to figure out ways to help
them make it out. When we stopped by this week it was already pretty
late because it was the day Elder Lavea broke his chain so that slowed
us down a lot. And of course when we got there they were eating dinner
so it's kind of hard to interrupt that. But we left them with a short
scripture and invited them to come to church! They'll make it
eventually, :)
One thing that was kinda funny that happened last Monday was that we
were waiting for a ride to come and get us. They guy we called is
named M~. He's pretty old :) but he's super nice and
always helps missionaries out. Well this brother couldn't find the
address where we were at, so we ended up getting home at like 10! Even
though it kinda stunk it was just so comical that we couldn't stop
laughing. He was swerving back and forth in the lane and just making
these funny comments in his broken English. Good times :)
That was pretty much our week! It's been hot but we've been loving
every minute! There are lots of hard moments too, but the pains and
troubles are swallowed up in the Joy of Jesus Christ. I am so grateful
for him and his sacrifice for the world. I know it's real. This is a
scripture from the Book of Mormon. In the Book of Alma, chapter 31 vs.
38 it says: "And the Lord provided for them that they should hunger
not, neither should they thirst; yea, and he also gave them strength,
that they should suffer no manner of afflictions, save it were
swallowed up in the joy of Christ. Now this was according to the
prayer of Alma; and this because he prayed in faith." We go through a
lot of afflictions in this life, but as we follow gods plan of
happiness for us, which we call the gospel, it doesn't have to hurt so
much. I'm so greatful for that!
Love you all so much!
Love,
Elder Baxter
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