Seeing a Light

Hello everyone, this past week has been a weird week for missionary work out here in Oakridge.  To start off, on Tuesday I went to my first MLC which stands for mission leadership conference.  While we were there we took notes on the topics we would have to teach the zone at a meeting on Friday called ZTM (zone training meeting), as well we had a council that discussed goals for baptisms in the mission for President Russell's final six months.  The meeting lasted until around four pm, we had dinner with the other district leader, and then finished the night by making a long drive back to Oakridge.

Wednesday was a fairly normal day where we got back into our usual routine for missionary work, where we also had a lesson with Poppy.  We talked about baptism with her and found out some of her concerns, but it went down fairly well.  On Thursday we had interviews with the mission president that were nice, and then the rest of the day consisted of lessons falling through.  Friday was ZTM where I got to teach the zone a segment about the Book of Mormon, had a lesson with a less active family named the Drapers, and had a lesson with a guy who was very respectful but wasn't too sure about the church.

Saturday was a bipolar day.  The night before it snowed about six inches, and it continued to snow for the majority of the day.  We walked a mile to a lesson we had in the storm only for them to tell us it wasn't a good time.  After walking back, we had lunch and visited another investigator named Chuck and his less active grandson named Jacob.  We had met them many times in the past, and Chuck was opposed to the Book of Mormon and baptism, but when we visited this time something changed.  He told us he wanted to apologize for what he had said, and that recently he had been reading the Book of Mormon and wanted to be baptized!  Chuck has been taught by missionaries for years and somehow we said something that got through to him.  He will be baptized March 4th.  We then moved on to shoveling people's sidewalks and helping people out for the rest of the day.  Sunday nothing to note worthy happened.

The highlight of the week was seeing a light open up in Chuck and seeing how the Lord does his work and it is great to be apart of it.  Thank you for reading and all of the support!

Elder Baxter

A picture from last week

Snow this week

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