Elder Carlton Baxter LDS Mission: 2017 The Year I Will Spend Completely on a Mission!

Hello everyone! The final week of 2016 has come and gone and it has been a great week for us while tracting and teaching. To start, the rest of last Monday was pretty standard, but the following day we began by searching for a referral that lived in a trailer park hidden in a nearby mountain. He had recently visited a baptism and said that we could come on over and teach him more in the coming weeks, which was great for us to hear. The rest of the day was then spent trying to tract a rich part of Westfir, located on the top of a large hill, as well as trying to contact various people.

Wednesday was more of the same, except near the end of the day. We visited a potential named Mike, who had a large discussion with us about the Spirit and the need for a restored church that he said he has been looking for. He is a very religious man and will either embrace what we say or drop us, but we are hopeful for future lessons that will be had with him. On Thursday I went on exchange down to Springfield with Elder Finlinson, who is my zone leader, first AP, and mission "grandpa". We spent a lot of time contacting various people and had several lessons fall through, but it was a fun time. Then Friday came, we ended the exchange and had district meeting where we brought the rest of the homemade cookies we had made for Christmas for the district.

Saturday we spent trying to contact in a part of town that we have never went before, ate pizza at a nearby restaurant, and had to spend the rest of the evening inside due to mission rules for New Years Eve. The following Sunday and first day of the New Year we got several inches of snow and church was cancelled because of it. We then attempted to contact several less active members in the snow and slush, had dinner, and that about describes the day. Overall, the week had a lot of tracting and contacting where we managed to find five new people who would like to meet us in the future. Now onward to 2017, the year that I completely spend on the mission!

Thank you for reading and all of the support the past year and for the upcoming year,
Elder Baxter