This past week was a pretty regular week as far as missionary work goes, but a couple of events stick out. To start, last p-day the zone came on over to Newport for a zone p-day. It felt great to be able to see other missionaries again, including Elders Hoskins and Smith, two of my former companions. As that event wrapped up though, we had the chance to go on over to Corvallis for an exchange with the zone leaders. What was special about this exchange was the kind of area they work in. They are in a young single adult ward on a college campus at OSU. It was fun being with Elder Hoskins and talking to college aged students on campus with the beaver mascot being all over the place. It is definitely a very different kind of missionary work there.
Later in the week the mission office had us switch out the mattresses in Newport and Waldport. It turns out some of these mattresses have been around since 1990, so the mission has been switching them out for the past couple months. That more or less took up half of our Thursday, but allowed us to get to know the Danley's, a senior missionary office couple, better.
General Conference was great though. We watched most of the sessions at our church building, and the Sunday morning session we did at a Members home with Nicole, the person who was baptized the first week I was here. I really loved the emphasis on following the prophet and the necessity to study the Book of Mormon every day. In fact, all of the talks were great and I can't wait to look them over again. We truly have living prophets and apostles, and I know at as we follow them we will receive the revelation necessary to return back to our heavenly parents.
Thank you for all of the support!
Elder Baxter
Sister Danley texted this picture home
Getting together with other Elders is always fun
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