This week was a bit of a roller coaster of emotions as most missionary weeks are. It began great last week with being able to play a super complicated Lord of the Rings board game with Myles, who will be baptized this week, for p day and then doing a family home evening following that. It was a very fun but super nerdy time in the end. Tuesday was fairly normal outside of being able to teach a new family that we found who is from India. As we talked we found that they only have a surface level understanding of Christianity which forced us to only teach a couple principles to help them understand. It was a humbling experience to realize that I had the chance to truly introduce these people for the first time to the idea of Christ.
Wednesday we had another lesson with the Cunningham family. They were getting closer to their baptismal date and had still not quit smoking, so we did a “choose this day” kind of lesson. At the end they seemed fairly fired up about everything and had more resolve to keep their commitments, then Thursday happened. As we went over for a daily follow up on their commitments we found a lot of contention within the home. Elder Pace tried to step in but they turned their anger on him. The contention they have for each other led to them not attending church or quit smoking, forcing us to take them off date with a few other side effects. Not a good time.
Friday I had Zone Conference with Elder and Sister Echo Hawk. It was a great meeting where they talked about all kinds of subjects. In the end I somehow got out of having to give the usual talk they have departing missionaries do, probably because a Seventy was present, as well as talk to several of my past companions again. One thing Elder Echo Hawk talked about that I liked is how planting seeds work. In the end we can never truly know how many souls we bring to Christ in a similar way to how we can never know how many apples will come from one apple seed. It was a great final Zone Conference.
We also had several lessons with other less active families who we are trying to help, as well as continue to help Myles towards baptism. Satan has begun attacking them and they are going through a hard time, but a couple really good experiences happened. On Sunday we were able to get them help through the ward, but more interesting is after Elder Pace and I shared our testimonies in sacrament meeting Myles got up and shared his! He has a very solid testimony, and shared that all of the trials he is going through has made him sure that this is Christ’s Church, as well as know that the Book of Mormon is true and that President Nelson is the Lord’s living prophet. We are very proud with him and I can’t wait to baptize him this Saturday.
I want to end with sharing that I also know that this is Christ’s true church in preparation for His second coming. I know that the Book of Mormon is true. I know that Joseph Smith was his prophet to begin the Restoration and that President Nelson is His living prophet. Let us go out and be valiant in our testimonies, and if we do so we will have eternal life. Thanks for all of the support!
Elder Baxter
P-day game time
There is beauty all around
Sunny days
Zone Conference
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