This was another average week of missionary work. We have done a lot more tracting as well as trying to reach out to less active members. To start off, we got to do service at a food bank where we helped store various food items and helped deliver the food to the vehicles of those who ordered them. Following that we got to meet with several less active members, who were very nice. Winston is a retirement community so we have a lot of members who can't come to church due to medical reasons, but it is still great to visit them. Towards the end of the week we met with a less active member who just had a family member pass away. We managed to share a message that really helped her as well as motivate her to come back to God.
We also got to meet with our on date investigators. We talked to Nora about church, as well as just get to know her better, and we got to meet with Rennie. When we came over to visit Rennie we found that her sister was just recently sent to the hospital in a coma and Rennie was very distressed. We offered to give her a priesthood blessing and immediately after the blessing she got a phone call saying that her sister had woken up. She was super grateful to God and it was awesome to see.
The end of the week ended on a more depressing note. We got a call from my last companion who is still in Oakridge. He told me that Chuck, who I got to know fairly well and was wanting to be baptized, had passed away. It was sad, but the Plan of Salvation is great and really does remove most of the sting. We are now entering a new week though and who knows what may happen.
Thanks for all of the support!
Elder Baxter
Valentine package from home [Carlton's Mom: Sorry I don't know how to rotate the pictures.]
Panoramic view
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