Teaching Opportunities

This week was characterized by several good teaching opportunities.  To start, this past Tuesday we got to teach a Filipino woman named Flor, who has a religion very similar to ours, and had a great discussion about the Gospel of Christ.  Following that, we came across a Jewish man who had talked to missionaries in the past and wanted to talk to us.  He has many different editions of the bible, has the Book of Mormon, reads Jesus the Christ, and is very knowledgeable about various religions.  We hope to talk to him further and see him progress in future meetings!  We also got to have dinner with the excommunicated member we have been meeting with and her family, and we were told this past Sunday that they want to see us again and return back to church.

On Wednesday we got to teach the Baker family with their girlfriend Taylor again and see Taylor say that she wants to be baptized.  The lesson was great and they were even discussing eternal marriage and going to the temple in the end, which was awesome.  We are going to get to go on a church and temple grounds tour with Taylor later today.  On Thursday we also had another lesson with the Lowder family and their daughter Taylie and got to teach the third lesson to their family. They are receptive and are asking questions and feeling the spirit come back into their lives.

On Friday we had a zone conference that more or less lasted the majority of the day.  The theme was the Holy Ghost and in the end I was asked to give a talk about it by the mission president.  I think that it went well.  Following that on Saturday we ran into a guy who was working in his yard.  His family came out and they wouldn't mind if we came back.  It has been a good week for finding. To cap off the email, we ended the week with dehorning a cow for a little bit of service as a zone for a member who was serving us breakfast on the farm.  There was a lot of chasing running away cows and trying to cover squirting blood from the removed horns.  Luckily I managed to stay out of the way of the blood.

It has been a busy week and we hope to end the last week of the transfer with a bang.  Thank you for reading,

Elder Baxter

Carlton with the Lowder Family

On the farm

Night in Oregon