Well family, hope yall had a good 4th of July. Mine was good. All of the missionaries in our zone (like 20 or so) helped with an annual Missoula pancake breakfast. there were tons of people there and I flipped hash browns for like 2 hours (the guy said hopefully no one sprains their wrist, I thought he was being stupid but my arm is actually kinda sore from flippin all those hash browns haha) Then after the breakfast our zone went on a hike. before the hike we wrote down problems and things weighing us down on a piece of paper then after that they said we had to write it on rocks haha good thing i didnt write too many things down ;) but we had to hike our rocks up with us and then at the top we talked about the atonement and got rid of our rocks by throwing them down the hill. It was awesome I am so grateful for the atonement of Jesus Christ. I have been studying it more in my personal studies and it has been pretty great. I love it more and more each day. Then we had lunch with our zone and played some games at the institute building. then we went over to some less active peoples house for dinner, the grandparents are active and they are the ones who invited us, then their kids and grand kids are mostly all less active members. They were all just doin their own things so we mostly just talked to the grandparents and Elder Horsley and I played badminton. then we watched some fireworks that they had, they were mostly the little ones and we had to leave at quarter to 11 before they shot off the big ones ha so that was a bummer but it was still fun. I love merica. this week Tamara has been out of town so we have just been texting her, but she seems to be doin alright, hopefully we can meet with her as soon as she gets back. This week we also put someone on date for the end of the month. His name is Lee Snell. We met him because some Sisters in another area were given a referral to visit a Less active brother in a rehab facility and we were doing a lesson together and when we met this less active dude then he brought his friend along Lee, so we have been teaching both Michael and Lee. its great. They are awesome and they know a lot of people in this rehab place, so hopefully we can start teaching more of them too.
We taught Stephan the russian guy yesterday since he wasnt there on Tuesday when we had a lesson, I felt like we really needed to visit him last night when we got there he said he was praying for us to come and we showed up. So it was awesome. It was kinda weird though cause he was talking about the bible the whole time and didnt want to really talk about what we had to say haha and it is hard when I dont know what he is saying when he quotes the Bible haha but he is a super nice dude and he might be able to give us referrals to other Russian people as well, so it should be awesome.
then we taught another Stephan and his wife Pasha and they have three kids and they are super awesome. They are Pentecostal and they have a lot of the same views as us but they dont believe in the restoration and stuff and they only want to read the book of Mormon if God tells them to, So hopefully they recognize His answer and read. But they invited us to come back to dinner sometime and she said she was going to make borscht so i am super excited about that.
Some more less active people this week, it is sad to see people who had callings and been through the temple not even know if there is a God and arent willing to ask if there is one, it is sad. But yeah that is basically what my week consisted of. It was a pretty good week.
We went to the Bishops house last night to talk about some people and he was talking about core solid members that are willing to do missionary work.
I hope all of you (my family) are on that list for your Bishop in each of your wards..if not get on that.
AND it looks like only mom and Sharlene reported back..sooo I invite you again to extend an invitation and then tell me how it went. even if they say no its alright just tell me what you did to invite someone I know you will see the fruits of your labors.
I love you all thanks for all you do
no pictures this week sorry, next week I will send some ha
Have a great week!
love Elder David Witt
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