Sunny Days

The sun is finally working! The sun is out and it is warm. It has been so nice! It has made it easier to ride our bikes. 

We had a lesson with the people we tracted into last week whose nephew is on a mission in Germany. It was a great lesson and they are super nice people. Brother Cik came with us and he is a quieter guy, so it was awesome to see him bare such a powerful testimony of the truthfulness of the church and Book of Mormon. It is always awesome when members come with us and do that. 

We were riding our bikes on day and I felt like we should go to the other side of town to try a part member family. As we were riding we passed the house of a potential investigator who we met a few months ago and I felt like we should go try him, so we did, he was home and we talked to him for about 40 minutes and he was saying how he has read the Book of Mormon and really likes our church. We talked about the plan of salvation, since he mentioned some people just died, Elder Lancaster committed him to read alma 40 and when we went back a few days later he said he read it, then his wife read it to him and he is going to read it again. Haha super awesome. It is wonderful that the Book of Mormon gives us additional knowledge about the plan of salvation. 

The Luis girls and Denna boys are doing well, they came to church and we had great lessons with them. 

We were tracting and no one was really home or the people that were weren't super nice. I just wanted to be done and do some other finding but we kept going and knocked on this ladies door and she said oh Elders! She was super excited to see us since she had met with missionaries 5 years ago and was hoping to get back into the lessons and such. 

We had zone training this week with all of the missionaries, it went well. 

Yeah good week, nice and sunny. 

Love ya have a good week!

 

Love Elder David Witt

Just some borscht and Russian candy with старейшина Barney

Just FYI
Elder Barney isn't my companion, we were just eating lunch with the
other elders. And he is doing the Russian smile and I'm not sure what
I'm doing with my smile...haha
Love you guys

 Golfing last week

Let's go ride a Bike

A busy awesome week. We rode at least a couple hundred miles on our bikes, not exaggerating. It has been kinda windy and chilly but it is still nice to get out and ride. 

We had quite a few lessons set up and did quite a bit of finding, which has filled up our next week with return appointments. So next week is looking great too. 

Since we have been riding our bikes we have been extra tired but as we have pushed through and relied on the enabling act of the Atonement, we were able to make it through this week. We were able to keep going even though we didn't feel like it. 

One of the nights we were tracting we all felt like we should go down this street (the assistants came on exchanges with everyone in our zone and one of them was with us for the day) so we did we knocked on this door and these old people let us in. They said they weren't super interested in coming to our church or anything but we could come back and share what they believe. They said they have a nephew who is on a mission in Germany, I kept getting the promoting to tell them us knocking on their door and them answering and letting us in was an answer to their nephews prayer. I pray for the same things, so I am glad we listened to the promptings to go down that street. 

We had interviews with President Holmes, one of the counselors in the mission presidency. It was always good to have interviews, it will be weird when we do interviews with President Mecham because it will be the last one with him before he goes home. 

And the most exciting part, the highlight of this week, Courtney and Marcie were able to get baptized! And Bryan, Marcie's husband and Courtney's step dad) was able to baptize them! He ward has been really involved and I have been so blessed to be able to serve here and teach people who are so prepared. 

The Luis came to church, Jeff and Lisa we can't get ahold of them, the Denna boys were with family, we found another YSA girl who referred herself when she went to SLC and temple square. While there wishes watched meet the Mormons, the restoration and because he lives. She is super prepared it is awesome. And Taylor the other YSA girl is going to meet with us  again after dropping us! So it has been an awesome week! Super exciting! The Lord is definitely blessing us and hastening His work!

We are going golfing today so that should be fun! Love y'all and hope you have a good week!

Love Elder David Witt

He Lives

Он воскрес

истина, Он воскрес

A common greeting around  his time of year in Ukraine. 

What another good week. 

Just to let you all know about the weather here, it is snowing. It is snowing a lot! 

Last week we were walking down road forever not sure exactly where we were, people were yelling at us shouting rude things haha, least to say we were not feeling it. Then we saw this lady on her porch and we asked if she wanted to watch a video about Easter, at first she said no then after taking to her and having her understand our beliefs a little more she said yes, and then her husband watches it. Super nice people and we have an appointment with them this week. Then we saw some motels across the street and we knocked on the first door, these people were using heavy drugs, they said they were atheist, my companion said meh lets just go. I said one more and behind the door was Jeff a super less active member, he said he just got done praying for direction then we knocked on his door. His wife is coming back from rehab and it was a really neat experience to meet him. 

Luis family is progressing alright, the Irwins are doing awesome and are ready for their baptism Saturday. We also taught these two boys, who their parents aren't active, at their grandparents house, they seem pretty solid. 

I loved General conference! The power and authority at they have is wonderful. I know that we have a living prophet on the earth today and the quorum of the 12 apostles really have been called of God. Just a few main points of what I really enjoyed/learned, 

Live the law of the fast, take root and be converted, have an eternal perspective, if we fear we are lacking faith, families,marriage is important (scary to think about but it's gonna be here sooner than later haha), dance to the music, be a saint (a sinner who keeps on trying), follow the Son, seek the kingdom of God, have righteous desires, grace, power of the priesthood is important, labor today, Jesus Christ and how he grabs onto our wrists as we are falling to our death (heart racer), build your life on our covenants, keep the sabbath day holy. 

During the last session of general conference we got to watch it with Ruth, the less active lady we tracted into last week, she really enjoyed it. Sister Cik came with us, and we are glad she did, she's a great fellowshipper. 

We did this thing Easter week from helives.mormon.org. Got to understand his life and atonement a little better. I was reading something about the sacrament and atonement and I thought about the sacrament and how there is broken bread  like his broken skin, he can enable us cause he has felt it all, the water, his blood, his suffering in Gethsemane so we can be redeemed. Cool thing I realized this week. I love this time of year.

Love you all and hope you have a great week!! 

Love the Elder David Witt