Work Is Moving Forward

A couple weeks ago started with us baking chocolate cookies for our neighbors in our apartment complex.  We used it as a way to tract them and to just try to be good neighbors.  Overall it was fairly successful, where even if they didn't want to hear our message they still seemed to trust us and wouldn't mind asking us for help.  Beyond that the week got fairly messed up by major mission meetings that my companion had to go to due to him being a district leader.  I ended up being in a trio of other Elders whose companions also left for the meeting in Eugene.  We did a lot of service and tried to see some people, and had a fun time together.  Beyond that, I was also made the designated driver in a car share that we are in, which has been a good crash course for finding out how well I really know my area.

That week we also had a good ZTM that discussed how to improve our teaching, which was followed up with a lot of contacting of investigators who cancelled their lessons on us, which has been sort of frustrating.  The large event happened that Sunday though, when a former investigator named Henry called us and said he would be coming to church and wanted to meet with us to answer questions he had.  He did come to church and we committed him to pray about Joseph Smith in our first lesson, and he said he did so and felt the Spirit!  He wants to be baptized and we all felt like October 29th is the date to shoot for.  We meet with him often and he is very receptive and keeps and goes above all of the commitments we leave him.  He has a testimony of this church.

The past week has been a fairly regular week with a lot of contacting, tracting, and getting to lessons.  An obstacle we came across is a fellow missionary borrowing Elder Hoskins bike and breaking it by accident, which has forced us to walk everywhere when we do not have the car.  The other thing that has characterized the week has been a large increase in rain.  It has been raining constantly for three days straight,

Last Saturday was really good as well due to our temple trip.  We went to the nearby Medford temple and got to an endowment session which was good and uplifting.  It is probably the smallest temple I have been in, but it was still a very spiritual experience.  We then had our p day and then went to a special stake conference where Elder Christoffersen was speaking.  We got to bring Henry and sit right up front in a few reserved rows for investigators.  He discussed the importance of scripture study, and we got to shake his hand following the meeting.  Henry seemed to really like it and it was fun seeing just how happy he was to meet with all of us.  We then ran into him a second time in the hall by accident and got to shake his hand again.  Then on Sunday we got to see Elder Bennet of the Seventy speak.

Overall, the past couple weeks have been good and busy.  They have their ups and downs but the work is moving forward and it is fun to be apart of.

Thanks for reading,

Elder Baxter

Rain Is Falling All Around...

Medford Temple

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