About to Take Off

Hello everyone, this past week was a busy week.  We have been mostly focusing on doing less active work, which led to a bunch of lessons with various members of the ward.  Many of the families were nice and want to come back, but have trouble keeping commitments, so that is where we are starting as far as teaching goes.  This was also my first week with Elder Kellerstrass again.  We have been doing a lot of catch up since we last saw each other in the MTC.

We had our second real lesson with the youth pastor as well.  This time we got to go completely through the Restoration with him, and he seemed to be at least accepting of what we believe, even with our claim to be the one and only true church.  It was a great lesson, but we are not too sure where he will go from here.  We also got to do missionary work in the outskirts of our area.  We didn't see a whole lot of success, but we did see a lot of trees and no trespassing signs.  I guess the people out there don't think that the missionaries will ever visit them, but the ones we could, we did.

Outside of those, we also had stake conference this week as well.  It was fun to get together with the stake and zone in Roseburg and watch an adult session and general session that was basically centered around the stake presidency trying to simply teach the Plan of Salvation on a very basic level, so that new members as well as investigators could understand.  Finally, we as a zone got to take a hike to a nearby waterfall.  It was a fun time and the waterfall was pretty great.  That was my week in a nutshell!  Overall, it feels like work in the Winston area is about to take off and as we rely on the Lord all things will be possible.

Thanks for all of the support,
Elder Baxter

Carlton at the Waterfall

Zone Picture

Wet Elders

Elder Baxter was here

Worth the hike