Happy Thanksgiving!

Wow what an awesome week! Dylan got baptized and confirmed yesterday! It was so cool, the Spirit was so strong and he and his family were so happy! now they have all been baptized and are going to go to the temple to be sealed next year!! so excited! everything I have done has made it worth it to see their happy family. We were so blessed to be a part of this since he was so prepared. 

It doesn't get better than this -Happy Families 

Dylan is the one in the back next to Elder Decker and me

We found a few new less actives and part member families this week, when i first got here some people said dont visit them..not sure why but they are super nice and hopefully we can get the ball rollin with some of them! It is pretty exciting!

We also found this family of 4 who said we could come back and hopefully we can go over there tonight and put them on date! super exciting! 

our ward goal for this year was 12 baptisms and they are at 6 so they have 6 more to go, so that is our goal for December! It will take lots of faith and lots of work, but we know we can do it! 

I love the Holy Ghost and the power it has.

 

I am thankful for so many things. I couldnt even make a list that could include all of the things I am grateful for all I know is that we need to cultivate an Attitude of Gratitude and I am so grateful for a loving Heavenly Father who has given us His Son Jesus Christ and His atonement and for the blessings and joy that this gospel brings to peoples lives, they just have to try it and they can find out for themselves that these things are true. I love it. I am grateful for such good family and friends. I am so grateful to have been born in America, if you havent walked the ghetto streets of another country we have no idea how many blessings we have and the things we take for granted. We are blessed with so much, what a great time to ponder all of our blessings. 

I love you all and hope you have an awesome Thanksgiving!
Love you

Love Elder David Witt

if you get the chance on November 28, 2014 go to christmas.mormon.org and share that video

LEAF out distractions and focus on things that matter most

Wowzers its already November, it was November last time I emailed but hey It came up fast and before we know it it will be gone! anyway

this week was a good week

We went up to white sulphur springs, we cover that area too (there are like 20 people who show up for church and we meet in the community building, weird but it works) 

Anyway Michael Walth, is a husband of a member who was just reactivated and Is now taking the discussions, He is also on date for the 19th of December so that is some exciting news! The members taught the lesson and it was all over the place so it wasnt what we wanted..but it ended up being okay ha  

Dylan is doing awesome and is just progressing well, we are looking forward to his baptism in a couple weeks! 

Good news is Elder Decker and I are staying here another transfer so that is exciting! finally I will be in an area for more than just a couple of weeks! haha 

We have driven a lot this week for baptismal interviews and such for other missionaries in our district,(side note it is awesome to hear peoples testimonies when they are being interviewed, people are being prepared so well!) so we are limited on miles so we rode our bikes the other night (it was chilly!) and we passed by a members home on the way to dinner and felt like we should stop there after dinner. So we did (the member we ate dinner with put our bikes in his truck and we went and got our car haha) and when we got there she was super happy to see us and we had a great discussion about our Savior Jesus Christ and all of the things that he did for us. Then she gave us 2 referrals, one was her son a less active and the other was a friend who said she had had missionaries there before but wasn't too interested but it was quite some time ago. So that was awesome! We got a referral and helped her feel the Spirit more powerfully it was cool! 

When on exchanges a couple weeks ago Elder Decker and the missionary he was with went tracting, when they knocked on a door and the lady was not a very nice lady haha (of course this is a rare occasion..:)) but then Elder Decker felt prompted to ask if she would be interested in some service. Which she was. So we went over to her house this week and raked her leaves. and boy was this the BIGGEST leaf pile I have ever seen in my LIFE! in my life! But we finished and said well we dont have enough bags for these leaves so we will find someone with a truck to come pick them up in a couple days. While we were in her house she had us hang up a picture and proceeded to talk to us for 30 minutes about her life and we talked about the Plan of Salvation and such and we said hey we will have to come back over some other time and talk more and she said oh yeah that would be fine! SO it was cool to see her heart change. Even if she doesnt want to hear more, the positive impact it had on her was great, and the many people that drove by saw us too so service is awesome! 

our leaf pile

 her daughter came and we helped fill up bags the next day... bags for dayzz! 

oh yeah we posted on facebook some things 


my post was "LEAF out distractions and focus on things that matter most"

Elder Deckers was "dive into the gospel"  haha it was great

I love being a missionary, it brings so much joy and not only in helping others come unto Christ but myself as well. I love this gospel and the truthfulness it has especially when we apply it's principles.

Love you all and hope you have a great week! 


Love 

Elder David Witt 
день без улыбки потерянный день

This is the Lord's work

This week was a good week! Dylan is progressing well, We found some people in the trailer park we went tracting in so hopefully we will start to teach them soon, we have found a couple new less actives and William Bentley the less active we found when I first got here is progressing, hasn't come to church yet but he is reading and praying and such so it is cool!

When we were tracting we met Pastor Mike (Pastor of the trailhead church, breakoff of the Baptist church and other churches..) he said he has seen us raking leaves a bunch of times and he says he is proud of us, for some reason our minds didn't register it but we felt like we should go back and give him a book of Mormon, hey maybe he can use it for one of his sermons or something..? you never know ha 

It is getting chilly here. Some days it has been smoking and cold and smells like ukraine it is so weird and makes me feel weird, sometimes Ukraine feels like it was just a dream, it felt like it happened so long ago..

Happy Halloween thanks Sab for the Mustaches!

Elder Decker and I

Halloween was good, we went to the Mitchell's and passed out candy with bible scriptures on them and Mormon.org cards, maybe someone will read it and be interested, you never know. I love Townsend and Elder Decker and I are being blessed with so much work. This is truly the Lords work, why else would and could anyone do it if it wasn't HIS work? He is in charge and He wants these investigators to be joyful more than we can imagine. It is great! Love you and hope you have a great week!

There might be a Russian investigator I start teaching over Skype..we will see he is kinda weird but we will see if he has potential! love you

Love Elder David Witt

I forgot to mention we ate at a truck stop I white sulphur springs and the portions were HUGE!!! we ate them all and the owner gave it to us for free!

Elder Decker and I