#HeistheGift

this is our Christmas tree 

and this is elder keith 

I forgot to say last week we cut down a Christmas tree ha we went with President Saltzman and got one (kinda early but oh well) it was fun. Holy smokes it is already December! Love it! Kind of a little switcheroo, we were going to go on exchanges with the Boulder Elders but then the Zone leaders called and said make it a week long exchange, like whoa that is long haha then all of the sudden they were like well actually you are staying with each other til the end of the transfer. So I am now with Elder Keith, I have been in the same zone as him since Missoula and have been on exchanges with him. He is from Arizona, the Navajo nation. He has been out a transfer shorter than I have.

We found 2 part member families this week and have set up return appointments. in the first family the dad is inactive but the 2 kids have come to church the last couple weeks and his wife is not a member but probably will be here shortly. then the other family the dad is also inactive and has a wife with 2 boys, one boy is in college the other is a freshman. We shared the #HeistheGift video (which all of you should have already looked up and shared on your facebook.  Christmas.mormon.org) and it brought the Spirit so strong. we set return appointments and hopefully we can set them all on date this week! they seem pretty solid, we haven't been able to meet with that other family of 4 because they were busy with thanksgiving stuff. speaking of thanksgiving it was fine. not as good as mom's home cookin, I like the normal stuff not really new recipes  but it was good.

Dylan is doing well and I am loving Townsend. it got to the negatives this week but the sun feels good and it isn't as cold as last winter.

I feel like this letter is shorter than most, maybe not but hope yall have an awesome week and don't forget to checkout and share that video!

love you!

Love Elder David Witt

We also built a snowman and I lost my ring and wallet, I will send that picture and tell that story next week..

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

Happy Halloween

Wowzers 

this week flew by but it was pretty good!

We got to go to Billings to go to the temple this week with some people in our ward. so that was awesome! 

Dylan Saltzman is doing great! we had a couple lessons with him last week and we are going to have one with him again tonight. He is on date forNovember 23. SO awesome and exciting! their whole family is so happy he's doin this and so are we! cause the Saltzmans are awesome! When we taught the Restoration the Spirit was so strong and it was just awesome. We left and were like this is what being a missionary is all about! experiences like this! 

Everyone else, not progressing haha we are finding others though we may potentially be ready. We are going to tract a trailer park this week, so that should be fun. Always good stories from trailer parks, like this past week a drunk dude gave us a couple bucks haha 

We also had a music jam this week. Something we had been planning for quite a while. It was successful, we had missionaries form Helena come and help us sing Come Thou Fount, How Great Thou Art and others, then people in the community sang. It was fun. They made Elder Decker and I sing a song! hahaha we sounded awful but hey they requested it haha It was fun though.

Hope you have an awesome Halloween and a good week! love you lots! 

люблю всегда , 
Cтарейшина Дэвид Витт

I have some great  You know You're in Montana When's this week! 





   You know You're in Montana When: Elk cross the road right in front of you









   You know You're in Montana When: When a horse is walking down the street


If you dont want to be grossed out close your eyes and scroll down for a few seconds before opening haha...





You know You're in Montana When:  Elk are being butchered in someones garage  

How does the Holy Ghost communicate with YOU

This week has been crazy going on exchanged with the other Elders in the district. One night when I was in Helena things fell through so we didnt have anything, so the other Elder I was with said we should go visit this guy they had tracted into and was super nice and told them to come back. He didnt know where he lived since he hasnt been in the area too long, so he relied on the Spirit and we ended up on this guys door step! it was awesome! We went in and he and his wife were super nice. We taught him the Restoration, invited him to baptism and answered questions. he wasn't ready to be baptized, but he is sure close! The Spirit was super strong and it was awesome! (we need to find one of those here in Townsend haha) 

We did some service this week, raked leaves and such and I think we really planted some seeds and softened some hearts so that was good!

sometimes you gotta have some fun (even though I have never seen star wars haha)

pumpkins we carved today with the Mitchell's

(brother Mitchell is blind and still carved his pumpkin)

i carved the temple and choose the right and выбрать истина  and Elder Decker did God is Love..we are going to hand out pass along cards for Halloween haha and of course candy 

We also helped this lady in our ward move, she had a suit in her house and said I could have it! it was a little big but I am going to get it altered so it should work perfectly! what an awesome find! 

Last night we went to a less active part member house and last time we went they were really rude, but Elder Decker felt like we should go to their house and they let us in we talked about the Book of Mormon and the less active said he would come to church and the wife said she would read the Book of Mormon if it was bigger print or audio, so we will have to get her either one of those. It was cool becasue I let Elder Decker choose what we were going to teach and he wanted to teach about prayer and I felt like we should teach the Restoration but didnt say anything since he was taking the lead, so after a while Elder Decker said you know what I feel like we should teach the Restoration instead! I said thats what I was thinking too! and it was awesome to see the Holy Ghost working. 

I love seeing the Holy Ghost work, it is important that we know things in our minds but also in our hearts and the Holy Ghost can do that for us. It is something that I am still trying to figure out, how Heavenly father communicates with me through the Holy Ghost but it has been cool to see these few things work out this past week how they did! 

our investigators are doing well, one of the members son in our ward wants to be baptized, he is 20 and chose different paths, but now wants this in his life, so hopefully our first lesson with him goes well tonight! 

I hope you all got to watch Meet the Mormons!

I love you all so much! Hope you have an awesome week!

love Elder David Witt

General Conference was Awesome

Privet Familia 

(spanish and russian mix)

This is my last district LOL 

BACK:  Sister Parr, Elder Wiggins, Elder Egan, Elder Kinard and you can barley see Elder Hammonds face (i told him we lived on Hammond Dr, and he laughed)

FRONT: Sister Black, Elder Bupp, Elder Memmott, Elder Witt (me) and eElder Keith

This week has been crazy! Said good bye to Elder Egan he is now in Great Falls and I stayed with the zone leaders for a couple days while my new new companion came in. His name is Elder Decker, he is from Albuquerque, New Mexico. He is excited to work so that has been good. It is hard explaining so much and not just doing things and getting them done quickly, but learning patience is always good. He is a good missionary and wants to work hard, we are going to have lots of success here, i can feel it.

Conference was awesome. I loved it so much. All of the talks were awesome and all my questions answered. I loved Elder Klebingat, and not just because he was my mission President, but he was so bold and spoke about exercise ha he loved to exercise. I loved his 6 things we need to do to prepare ourselves if we were to have an interview with the Savior in one minute. obviously we need to work on those 6 things to prepare ourselves for when we do meet our Savior. 

I also loved Elder Scott's talk, I hope you are all having family scripture study I mean like he said, it is more important than food and sleep. 

So much has changed in the past year. I wouldnt have wanted to be anywhere else than serving Jesus Christ and helping our brothers and sisters come unto Him. There is so much change happening everyday and we are either moving forward or backwards, so we choose which one it is.

Hey love you all

люблю всегда,

Elder David Witt