This week was an interesting week as far as the bipolar nature of it. The week began with helping our investigator Steffano nearly every day until Wednesday as we tried to juggle in proselyting time in as well. We helped him set up his apartment to prepare him to start an online job that should help him past his financial problems and hopefully be baptized within the coming year. During that, we continued to help out with several service projects and got to see transfers come and go.
On Wednesday, the new missionaries entered the mission and they seem very prepared and ready to hit the ground running. We were also able to go out for the day with a prospective elder and show him what contacting is like and give him a glimpse of what the first day in his first mission area will be like through him meeting the new missionaries, which was a cool experience. He also got to meet Steffano and started to build ward connections with him so we don't have to help him quite as much as we have had to these past few weeks.
Following that, on Friday we tracted into a guy who was interested in the Gospel and had a hour and a half lesson where all of his questions naturally led through all of the lessons briefly. He said we were the first church he has every talked to that could answer his questions and wanted to meet again. He lives in another area, so we referred him to those Elders, so hopefully they will get in contact with him! Later that day we had a dinner appointment/lesson with an investigator who showed us his cheap virtual reality headset and made us watch some videos of people doing stunts over skyscrapers and skydiving while wearing it. That was fun to see.
On Saturday we got to go out with the prospective elder again and met with someone who ultimately ended up being a bible basher. The lesson did not go well, but hopefully we will not have to see that person again. We then went to a part member home where the members expressed interest in wanting to return to church and the rest having a strong potential for baptism. We will get to meet with them again tonight and teach them for their family home evening. Then another part member family that just moved in from Utah also wants to meet with us, and their thirteen year old daughter has expressed interest in being baptized.
Overall, our teaching pool is increasing and more people want to hear the Gospel which is always amazing! We are grateful to the Lord for the chance to get to help teach these people, and we trust that everything will work out for the best.
Thank you for reading,
Elder Baxter
In the zone
Showing off his mission shirt.
He says his eyes are closed because it was a bright day.
Bowling on P-day
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