This week was another crazy week out here in Eugene. To start, on Tuesday we got to watch the message from the new first presidency. We were gathered together as a zone along with President Orton. The internet wasn't working so we just listened to the messages that were spoken off President's phone. Despite the technical difficulties though, it was a great experience to see President Nelson as well as have a chance to pray about it afterward and strengthen our testimonies. Following the message and press conference we had our interviews with President Orton and had a normal day.
We had two lessons with the girl we are teaching, finishing up the Restoration and the Plan of Salvation. They have gone well and it has been fun to come up with various object lessons to teach her about various principles. We also learned that the Dad is a world war historian and showed us an original Nazi helmet and Hitler youth knife that his grandfather gave him that he got home from fighting in Europe. Being a world war history nut myself, I thought it was awesome!
On Thursday our zone handed out Book of Mormon's to hundreds of people who went to see the Book of Mormon play. It was a blast being able to go and grab ten or so Books at a time and then just start handing them out to unsuspecting audience members as they left. Some other Elders got so into it that they even started to hand them out to people in their cars as they started to drive away. As a mission we gave out 3000 Book of Mormons this week at the play, now here's hoping that someone in that group will want to learn more!
The next couple days were pretty normal until Sunday night. Our District Leader, Elder Henley, went on a split with us around 8 pm and for the night. A while earlier he injured his foot putting him on crutches, so that night when his companionship had their turn to go to the play he stayed with us while his companion went with another companionship. While we were finishing up the night, we got many doors saying no and not letting us get anywhere, but the final door we knocked on was different. A man opened the door and at first he looked extremely angry, but as we shared the message of the Restoration his heart softened. In the end he accepted a Book of Mormon and said we could come back. It was a great way to end the week.
Thank you for all of the support and make sure to go out and serve others!
Elder Baxter
Nazi memorabilia
With Elder Daugherty
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