November 2, 2009

So this area is so incredible I feel like this is just where I needed to
be.  We couldn't get most of our baptismal dates to church this week,  but
we found a new kid named Tony who is 18 and we taught him the restoration
and the plan of salvation and he is excited to get baptized!  The only
problem is he is kinda an odd kid and doesn't have any friends and feels
really awkward around all of the (white) members of the ward.  He wouldn’t
leave my side on Sunday.  But we are going to go over there with one of
the Priests who is a really good guy this week and get Tony to come to
thier campout this weekend... he is so sweet... we are going to baptize
him on Sunday after church... Elder Bagley will do it because he hasn't
baptized anybody....

Bagley and Mcrae were teaching somebody named Matt who is getting married
to a member named Bridgett.  And Mcrae figured that he already knew
everything about the gospel so he didn't bother teaching him.  He would
just go over and hang out instead of teaching... which is very bad for a
missionary to do... President Hinkley said that we need to not be friends
with the people we are teaching but be guides for them...  anyways Matt
said that he didn't want to be baptized... and they stopped meeting with
him... Saturday we were going to see some recent converts and I saw a
woman walking to her car and I felt inspired to go talk to her, it turns
out it was Bridgette.   So she told us about how she is planning her
wedding and Matt and her will be getting married in December.... I told
her to pray about Matts heart being softened so he would decide to get
baptized... Meanwhile Matt was at work and he got overcome by the spirit
and sent Elder Bagley and email requesting us to come back.  He declared
that he wants to be Bridgetts priesthood holder... hahaha how freakin
sweet is that.... We are going over tonight to meet with them... and we
are going to teach the Doctrine of Christ by the power of God... not make
friends and chat... hahaha so pray.
I got the package you sent Mom.
It was sent to the wrong address but somehow it got to the office of our
complex and the manager came into our apartment and put it on the counter
and locked the door on the way out... which caused a problem... there are
a lot of comps that live right next to us so we don't lock our door and we
don't carry keys with us so Elder Huff and Zabriskie called us at like 845
cuz they had just got home and asked if we locked the door cuz they were
locked out, anyways since it was so late we had to break in... it was
kinda funny.
Anyways keep praying for missionary opportunities and help to bring about
the second coming... I love you all.