But..
To start off my eyes hurt all the time because one I am tired and two I am not sure if it is snowing or if there is pollen in the air, so that plus tired = burning eyes haha
anyway, oh yeah before I keep goin Happy Anniversary to mom and dad, thanks for all you do! hopefully you had a good day.
Well last week I pulled out some Kontik that I brought over from Ukraine and I slammed with Elder Anthony. (dont worry I am still sending some home) I have one other one in case I ever train I can show him how to really start his mission haha there was one bad day last week, Elder Anthony was sick, I got my English name tags and I got a call that I was getting mid transferred..so that was awful. We also had zone training and that was good, we did practices and such and talked about some finding ideas/games so that was good, then Elder Anthony and I went to Superior (in Frenchtown boundaries) and we stayed at the Updikes house, they were super nice and they know Lem and Gina Harsh and their family. She has traveled all over because she has helped with different organizations and benefits and such and I totally wanna do that when I get home. While in Superior we taught a guy named Michael who is married to Katie who is a member and they want to both go to BYUI and get married in the temple, so we began teaching him. Katie went to Vista Elementary, what a small world.
Then I said goodbye to Elder Anthony and Elder Jones (another missionary that came over from Ukraine, we were in the same district) And moved in with my new companion Elder Horsley. He has been ouot for about 6 months, he is 22 and is from American Fork. I love practicing patience and charity. He is a good missionary though and wants to work hard. \
The very first night I got to Missoula we were going over to some peoples houses that the bishop wanted us to check up on and kak raz, it was the Yorgasons, how cool is that haha they are a good family. It was cool to be able to meet them the first night and connect, it just shows that there is a reason for everything and there is a plan for each of us.
We have taught 2 Russian families, one who they are married and have 3 boys, she has lived here for 22 years and he has lived here for 7 and they are both Pentecostal. They were supper nice and have heard things about the church and stuff so they had questions but who knows how interested they are. We are gonna follow up though and see if they still want to meet with us. Then this other guy who lives by himself, who knows not very much English at all...ha, we were able to talk to him, he knows the Bible really well, I think he just enjoys someone to talk to that actually can understand most of the things he is saying. haha but we have another meeting with him and we will see how things go. we went to visit another russian family but they didnt answer, when we were leaving someone pulled into their driveway, and we find out that he is house sitting for these Russians, but he took a book of Mormon and told us his address number and would schedule so hopefully something good comes from that!
russian doors
I gave a talk on gratitude the first sunday I was in my new ward haha but it went well it was good, I have most of it written out if any of yall wanna read it.
For this week we have been visiting tons of part member and less active people as well as finding, nothing too exciting but we are still lookin.
Also this week we didnt have the car, so we were on bike, at first I was like heck no I am not riding bikes at all anywhere but they are actually pretty nice haha, it just sucks though cause all of our area is uphill from our house LOL talk about a quad work out. riding in the pouring rain was nice too...Oh yeah we also went to Michales baptism, he continued to be taught and was super prepared so he got baptized on Saturday and we got to go to it so that was really neat.
There is a recent convert (derrick baptized in October) who just turned in his papers and who came to a lesson with us and it fell through so he just came tracting with us haha it was awesome, he is so awesome and you can tell that he really loves serving people and wants them to know about Christ and His restored church.
We made signs for like come to church with arrows and stuff and my sign was honk if you love Jesus, we didnt get to stand out side for very long cause it was raining but we got a few honks haha so that was fun (not as embarrassing as feeling like a Jehovah's Witness in the park in Ukraine)
We helped with a yard sale fundraiser and taught the lesson for the 17 year olds. We taught how scripture study can help us learn more about the Priesthood, turns out there were just three people who showed up to our class and they were all girls.....yeah haha but it was really good for me because I got to study more about the Priesthood and what it means and what it means for me. I am really grateful for the Priesthood and how it has blessed my life and our family and so many other peoples lives. It is awesome.
thank you for the birthday wishes and packages it was great! We went out to dinner with Bishop Thomas and his family at Famous Daves and our investigator Tamara was our waitress, she is awesome. was on date but had some word of wisdom issues but she knows she needs to stop and really wants this for herself, so we will continue to work with her.
thanks for the ring its sweet
Our Bishop and Stake President are really involved in missionary work. It is awesome and so helpful and they lead by example, so I decided to give you all a commitment this week haha ;) so if you are reading this I am extending the commitment to you, invite someone to do something, whether it is meet with the missionaries, come to church, read the Book of Mormon, pray, anything just extend an invitation to someone then report back to me on how it went. Member missionaries is where it is at, that is how we will help people make covenants with Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ.
I love you all
Thanks for all you do
Happy 4th of July,
We are truly blessed to live in this country with so many opportunities, rights, freedoms and protection.
God bless America.
love you
love, Elder David Witt
No comments:
Post a Comment