I'll stay in Kalispell with newest member...Ryan

Lots of exciting things happened this past week. The missionaries in the first ward got in contact with a less active YSA and since we cover YSA they passed him to us and we taught him. He grew up in Utah then his mom moved up here. He has had a super rough past but is turning his life around. It was awesome we invited him to institute and most of the time when we invite people to activities then they say they will come then not show up, but he did and he stayed for the activity afterward and met a ton of other kids. It was pretty sweet. 

We got out with our ward mission leader and there are supposed to be more ward missionaries but only one shows up, and I felt like I should go with him to visit this less active that had moved in after Christmas. We had been trying to set up an appointment but he kept rescheduling so we stopped by with this member and they both are doctors that practice nature stuff. I think Homeopathy. So they both really connected and it was a good discussion. 

Elder Beck my companion in frenchtown was serving down in Polson, which is the south end of our zone and he finished his mission the transfer so his companion was companionless. So President Mecham asked me to go down and have Elder Burnham stay up here with first ward. I was nervous that I was going to get transferred down to Polson. We taught a bunch of lessons and they were working with tons of less actives down there. They aren't really progressing less actives but hey hopefully one day. All of that area is an Indian reservation and there is one city in Polson called Pablo that is run down, it is kinda sad, not too far away from a pretty nice part there are a bunch of less fortunate people that live there. Kinda reminded me of Ukraine a bit. We tried some members who lived down there but they weren't home.

 

Then we got transfer info on Sunday and I am staying in Kalispell. There are tons of other changes going on, lots of missionaries getting switched out and lots of areas having the missionaries being taken out and one set will confer multiple areas. With the decrease in the number of missionaries, more and more multiple areas/units will be covered by one set of missionaries. I will be getting a missionary from Missoula who was elder buntock's companion. 

And the best news of all. Ryan was baptized! He was supposed to be baptized at the beginning of the year but it kept getting pushed back. He is such a funny kid. His dad baptized him and his mom totally, as well as everyone else who was there, felt the Spirit super strong. It was a neat experience. It was a pretty awesome week. We will see if I have  companion for more than 9 weeks haha I thought Elder Burnham and I were staying but I guess not. I am so glad I am staying here in Kalispell. Hope y'all have a great St. Patrick's day and a great week.

Love ya

Love Elder David Witt