It was a busy week the past week. To start, Tuesday was chaotic across the city of Bandon for the Fourth of July. Everyone who lives here left, and everyone else from Oregon came here, making for large crowds of tourists passing through the town. The morning started with attempting to talk to people at a parade, but we came twenty minutes late and it lasted for only fifteen minutes, so we completely missed it. While we were there though, we came across the bishop of one of Elder Bushman's old wards. He invited us over for dinner and gave a couple referrals which was awesome. Continuing through the day we ended up walking through most of the city of Bandon meeting various members from around the state as well as from Utah. We then had two lessons with recent converts, and then ended up having two BBQ dinners. Life is very interesting food wise as a missionary I have to say! That night we then watched the fireworks from our apartment.
On Wednesday we had an exchange with the zone leaders. I was with Elder Terry who has been in my previous zones, and we had an interesting experience. We decided to go tracting, and the very first door we knocked on we talked to a guy who went from "not interested" to "I guess I would have to read that book of yours," while talking to him. He then asked us to help him with a project where we would help him put up a fence. We said yes, but did not realize how big the project was. We came to the spot and it turned out he was splitting apart full tree trunks for the posts, and was using hydraulic machinery to dig holes and move the trunks around. We helped out the best we could and in the end he said that he had massive respect for us. It was a cool, but unusual door we knocked on for sure. After that we switched back to our normal companions again for a hour. While the zone leaders were doing their thing, my companion was driving and ended up accidentally cutting someone off. That resulted into a chase where the guy pursued us for a couple miles around empty city streets until we finally lost him. Wednesday definitely had a few adventures.
Thursday we got to meet President Orton. We ended up doing a question and answer kind of meeting just getting to know him, and then had mini interviews following that. He is a very nice man who is pretty calm. I support him as my mission president and I look forward to seeing what happens. The rest of the day was pretty normal. On Friday though we got to go out and do an emergency service project for a widow in the branch. She was moving next door and the branch desperately needed more help. Over the course of the next few days up until this morning we went on over and helped bring over her stuff, and she had a lot of it.
Finally on Sunday I got to give a talk in church about John 11-15. Nancy, our main investigator, came. At the end of sacrament she said that she was going to make sure that she comes to every church meeting on Sunday from this point forth. That was a pretty cool experience to see the Spirit work on her like that. She mentioned hard things have been happening ever since she started to talk to us which means that this must be one powerful church to get the devil that angry. Finally, he rest of the day we went out and found a couple new people to teach and finished the day strong until Elder Bushman accidentally broke his iPad screen at a dinner appointment.
Thanks for all the support everyone and know that the work is moving out here! I know that as we open our mouths we will be able to say the things that will help others come to Christ and that is our biggest duty as members.
Elder Baxter
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