Transfers, Pioneers, Glaciers

Well I can't believe this transfer is over. So I guess I'll start off
with transfer news..
I am staying another transfer in Kalispell!! Ha I couldn't believe it,
I am glad to stay, I will have to retract lots of places I've already
tracted before so that should be fun ha. But I am super excited to
stay. Unfortunately Elder Eddington is getting transferred to Clinton.
Which is in Missoula I bought we were going to stay another transfer.
my new companion is Elder Wolf, I will have to give you more deets
after I meet him.

This past week Elder Eddington and I got the stomach flu, we both got
it at the same time so I guess that was a good thing? We were down for
a day but we are feeling better now, it is weird how you think it
would be nice to stay at home but then when it happens it is not so
fun. I think my parasites from Ukraine might be back or I have some
other stomach problem, I think I'll just get it checked out when I get
home, but for now I'm good.

We were at a dinner this past week and this family was talking about
their kids and their kids families, and I can't say how grateful I am
for our family. I mean we all have issues, but I couldn't ask for
better parents and siblings, I love you all. So thank you so much. I
am grateful for the principles of the gospel and the Atonement of
Jesus Christ and that when we apply and use them we can be so much
happier in life. Not sure how you got so lucky mom and dad, but thanks
so much for all you have done for us. Thanks for being covenant
keepers.

We had some great lessons this week a few highlights were Gabes
lesson, we watched a video from the Book of Mormon and at the
beginning of it said he knew that story and recited the story before
we had watched the video, he is so awesome and I can't wait to see his
progression in the gospel. Another exciting thing happened, we were at
the church doing interviews and I felt prompted to text Sherry
Williams and just say hi, so I did and she ended up calling us, mind
you I haven't been able to teach her the new member lessons since she
got baptized, so I was super excited to hear from her. We had a lesson
and talked about the Book of Mormon and the importance of sacrament.
She said she knows what she needs to do and is going to be at church
Sunday. It was such a blessing. And we have another lesson set up with
her next week as well. #blessingsfromlisteningtotheSpirit

We gave talks in sacrament about Pioneers and they went really well.
Mine was on President Uchtdorfs first presidency message and relating
it to missionary work. It went well I think. I didn't have time to
share any personal family history stories. (Speaking of family history
thanks Sab for posting a pic and Story about grandma Witt. It was
really nice.) there is a sweet video on Mormon newsroom, and a
campaign about pioneers #IAmAPioneer you should check it out.

I tried to get some pioneer stories from Nadia and olea, but they never
replied. It is crazy though to think they have had to leave their home
and belongs and travel west for safety. We however don't have to be
first generation members, live in a distant land, wear bonnets or pull
handcarts to be pioneers. I am grateful however, for their examples,
which helps me continue to be a pioneer.

Today we went to glacier national park. It is beautiful! We went as a
zone, stressful organizing it, but it was good. It was so beautiful. I
love it and can't wait to come back. It was overcast and a little
rainy at first but cleared up. A place we went was the same place we
were when there was snow up there, it is weird to see it looks so
different without snow. I personally think it looked nicer with
snow..anyway. We saw a bear today! It was super close! Maybe a hundred
feet from us. There were some people walking down the road just
looking at it we were like 'go the other way!!" But they didn't really
move, thankfully it wasn't an aggressive bear and just ran into the
woods. It was sweet to see him though. I'll have to get some pics from
elder eddingtons camera and send more. While we were at a gift shop
there was a girl from Ukraine working here and so I asked her where
she was from and she said harkov! So I asked where and she said
alexsayvka, which was by novy doma. I served in novy doma not
alexsayvka, but I knew the missionaries who did and had been there for
a meeting. It was cool to talk to her for a sec, I should have asked
if she new any members in Ukraine...next time for sure.

The waterfall from the winter hike

So huge. I want to summit these when we come back

The bear was really close to those people

I have been so blessed to be here on a mission, in Montana and in
Kalispell. I love it so much. I am grateful for the opportunity we
have to bare testimony of this gospel every day. I hope that never
ends. Thanks for everything. Love you all

Love you, Love Elder David Witt

Another week in Montana

Good day
Nothing really too exciting happened this past week
We went finding a lot. We had some good follow up lessons with Chelsey
and the Nicklaus' and Rachel.
It always seems I find more less active people than actual
investigators when I got tracting. We were about to knock on this
neighborhood but we both felt like we should go somewhere else, then
this motel place popped in my head. So we nocked some doors, no one
was super interested so we went to a place right by it and (of course
it's the last people we talk to) there was this guy who was like hey
Elders. So we talked to him and his wife came out and they aren't
super active but just got back from doing a family history trip, then
their neighbor came outside and started talking and said she was
baptized when she was 8, she just moved out of her house and said she
hadn't been in a few years. It was like a gold mine. They were all
super nice and glad to talk to missionaries. Hopefully we can teach
them this week.
Thanks for the family pics it's always fun to see everyone. I love you
all so much
Love, Elder David Witt

Celebrating Independence [from sin]

Sorry for not emailing last week, I meant to, this just means a thick
email for this week.

My birthday was great! Thanks for all of the gifts, letters and
packages. I'm not a teenager anymore! Elder Eddington made lunch and
we had brownies and ice cream. Sister Cik took us to Applebee's for
dinner and it was really good. 

David's 20th Birthday 

The candles melted from the top and bottom, the pan was still hot so
there was wax everywhere...yummy

We went tracting and it was super hot,
but we also had some good lessons, it was a good birthday.
So we moved, again ha we moved back into the Ciks house (315 Orchard
Ridge Drive, Kalispell, MT 59901) (yes it's drive not ave) it feels
good to be "home". The Ciks are awesome.

We went to lunch with a senior couple, Elder and Sister Osburn, this
week, they are from St. George. They were assigned to New Zeland but
are waiting for their visas, so they got temporarily relocated here. I
have never served around senior couples, they are funny and it will be
fun to have them here in our stake.

We had Interviews with Preisdent Holmes, hopefully he will stay as a
counselor since the Presidency was dissolved with President Mecham's
release. It is always good to have the zone come in for those and eat
lunch together and get to know everyone a little bit better. It was
good.

Last week we did some service for a lady. She is the librarian and
sometimes we talk to her on Mondays when we go in to email, anyway she
has a friend whose husband just died and wanted us to help her clean
some stuff. We drove out to the boonies and  helped this lady. Her
husband was a mechanic and had tons of car parts and garbage all over
the place, we sorted stuff into garbage, recycle able, hazardous, etc
and cleaned a small portion of her property. It felt good to get out
and do some physical service. Note to self, don't collect junk.
Last Sunday, Eric, a YSA, wanted to go tracting with us, he is
thinking about going on a mission and it was sweet. It always seems
like people enjoy or feel the Spirit more when a testimony is coming
from someone other than a missionary, not saying people don't feel the
Spirit when we talk to them. It was really humid and hot when we went
but it was a good experience. Since the next day was Monday, Eric took
us frolfing and it was fun, a couple other missionaries showed up. I
haven't been since I went with bro Cox for YM a long time ago. It was
super fun.

We taught institute and talked about flooding the earth with good
social media. There were some who were not super thrilled about doing
that. I mean it isn't too hard to post something religious, but some
didn't want to do it ha. As a missionary, It has been good to have
Favebook back. I have been able to contact some less actives,
investigators and others through it. I also got back in contact with
Nadia and Olea. I litteraly was concerned about them, thinking
something happened To them, power outage, death, etc. so it was good
to hear they are doing okay. It would be nice to somehow find Sanya
and talk to him, I hope he is doing okay.

Some YSA's showed up for splits one night and we visited a bunch of
YSA, no success yet but we plan to do it again and find more YSA to
come. It was a good experience for the YSA as well.

While we were being interviewed by President Holmes, I was talking to
Sister Holmes and we were talking about cinnamon rolls, so she made
some for me and my companion and brought them to "meet the president".
The Holmes are so awesome.

Speaking of meet the President, we had a meeting where we go together
and met President Gordon Leo Wadsworth and his wife. They are from
Panaca Nevada. They seem really nice and humble and I look forward to
serving for and with them.

President Wadsworth, me, Sister Wadsworth

It was really stressful the last week when we were working towards the
Nicklaus' baptism, since it was supposed to be last week. There were
some concerns with the Bishopric and them coming to church and all
that jazz, the Nicklaus' got a little offended that they didn't trust
that they were going to keep coming to church after they got baptized.
Satan was working hard on them and different things kept popping up,
but we got everything squared away and they were okay with their date
being moved to this last weekend. Sooo
It was the best Fourth of July EVER!! There were three baptisms!!


Me, Scott Wilson(he baptized Chelsey), Chelsey Wilson, Virginia Nicklaus, Randy Nicklaus and Elder Eddington

Randy and Virginia Nicklaus and Chelsey Wilson got baptized! It was
such an awesome baptism. The talks were great and the Spirit was
strong. They were all so happy, despite the fact the AC was broken and
it was really hot. They are all so awesome. They were all confirmed
the next day at sacrament and there were tons of visitors there so it
was great.

After the baptism we went to a bbq at the Wilsons, then for dinner we
went to another BBQ and even though we couldn't watch fireworks( it's
too dry here), we were allowed to stay out a little  later, so we
played basketball and volleyball in some members indoor court, it was
super fun.

Last night we went on splits again with Eric and Quinten, both YSA.
Quinten was baptized in November. We visited a potential named James
and he and his wife set up a return appointment yen said we should go
visit one of heir friends, so we did and she is going through a rough
time but wasn't super interested in learning more, but she said she
knew some people who could use our help and she said she was going to
give them our phone number, so hopefully something good comes from
that. Quinten was asking if this happens all the time, talking about
visiting people who need a visit and feeling the Spirit. He was
talking about going on a mission so hopefully he prays about it and
goes.

Sister Cuthbert, a less active we are working with, is doing well,
Gabe is still sharp as a tact, Luis girls are doing well, and Rachel.
Oh I forgot to talk about her. Some members just moved in about a
month ago and had her over for dinner and invited her to meet with us.
So she did and we had a great lesson with her and she prayed about the
Book of Mormon and the church and she said she really feels like it is
true, she is on date for the beginning of August. She is solid and the
members who are fellow shipping her are awesome. Things are going
great in Kalispell. I love this gospel and lasting joy it brings to
people lives.

Happy 4th
Church is true

Love you all
Have a great week!
Happy birthday to everyone whose birthday was in June or is in July,
there are a lot of them.

Love, Elder David Witt



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