Days are long. Weeks are short.

We got to put someone on a baptismal date this week!  Her name is Tailey and she is a 13 year old girl from a less active family we are teaching that wants to return back to church.  They moved into the ward not that long ago and even asked us when a good baptismal date would be before we could even extend the commitment which was awesome to see.  This happened this past Tuesday, and since then we learned that her father is worthy enough to baptize her which is awesome.

This week has mainly been characterized by success with talking to less active families and helping motivate them to want to come back to church.  Often times, just us appearing at the door is enough to get them to do most of the talking and teaching about the Gospel.  Some have even gone out of their way to recontact ward members without us asking them to.  This has lead, and seems to lead, to us finding more friends and family that live with them that want to learn about the Gospel.

During the actual week, a couple things have occurred.  First, our ward mission leader moved out and should be now living in Utah.  We helped him move and said our goodbyes, which really characterized our Tuesday.  He was awesome, but now his assistant is the new ward mission leader in our area.  He is hitting the ground running, and we are all hopeful for the near future of the area.

Beyond that, we did interviews with the mission president Wednesday which more or less lasted all day.  Then on Friday and Saturday I got to go on an exchange with our zone leader, Elder Bushman.  We did a lot of tracting, though not a whole lot of success came.  We then switched back to our original companions and found the less active families that have already been mentioned.

The days are long and crazy, and the weeks and months are short, but life is going well and our teaching pool is increasing.  The coming week should be fairly similar to this past week, but as always I will keep everyone posted.

Thanks for reading,

Elder Baxter

P.S.  I didn't really take pictures this week, but that is because there was nothing to really take pictures of.