Elder Carlton Baxter LDS Mission: Birthday on a Mission

This week has been an interesting week. To start, my birthday was on Tuesday which meant that I got to open my birthday package from home and receive random calls from the mission presidency and mission office singing the happy birthday song. Most of the day was taken up by a lot of service at Saint Vincet's food kitchen, as well as working on a pig farm. We also tracted after that and found a couple of potential investigators we will try to follow up on. Finally, I also got a free dinner to Panda Express from the zone leaders.

On Wednesday Elder Borden and several other Elders came down for their temple trip and we got to catch up with them as well as have lunch with them. It was a fun time.

The rest of the week was pretty regular, with us following up on appointments with people who didn't believe that we would come back. We gave out a bunch of Book of Mormon's due to a mission wide challenge, and we met several more people through that. We also got to start a steady string of lessons with Henry through the week that have gone very well, and give him the baptismal interview that he passed on Sunday. Now the trick is just making sure everything continues to go smoothly.

There has been some tough things that happened. We got dropped (over text) by Taylor, though we are hoping to try to get to talk to her one last time before she closes herself off. We also had to drop several more people as well. We also had to deal with some drama in setting up the baptisms for Taylie and Henry, though hopefully everything is good to go now.

Overall it was a pretty average week and there isn't anything to exciting to say, but as always, thanks for reading and for all of the support that you all give!

Elder Baxter