Life gets better as we live the Gospel

Had breakfast with the senior missionaries, they got their visas to go
to New Zealand so they had a goodbye breakfast. They were awesome

Left to right
Brewster, McKenzie, Hansen, Linney, King, Witt, Osburne's, Wolf,
Hoschouer, Anderson, Jameson

Wowzers

We are on week 5, the transfer is almost over, it's just flying by.

Great week with great lessons

Finally got in to teach the Nicklaus family again, recently baptized,

she has been recovering from surgery and they have been busy with

other stuff, so it was really good. Also had a sweet lesson with

Zairene and Zamuel and their non member mom Irene. A returned

missionary that served in the phillipeans came, and spoke Tagalog with

them so it was awesome.

Tracted into some nice people.

Jan-met not interested at first, said we come back and we brought a

member a few days later and taught her, cleared up some misconceptions

she had about the church.

Said we could come back this week and teach her.

Jim-not religious, but we taught him, said he has been to a lot of

different churches, including ours, he said they are all good

especially if you think it's right for you. Doesn't really have a

belief in God, said he would read the Book of Mormon and we could come

back in a month to see if he did, we'll see where that goes...

I wasn't feeling well Saturday, and people were being people, but we

went to this apartment complex, and this lady walks up to us and

started talking to us, so we taught her yesterday and wants to be

baptized next month. Sister Irwin (first time teaching, and remember

she was just baptized) came to the lesson and bore some pretty

powerful testimony, they connected and it was just so AWESOME!! It was

great to see her testimony grow as she shared it.

Also we were Tracting and talked to these people, we handed them a

Book of Mormon and she said "I have wanted one of these, someone a

couple weeks ago while I was on the airplane was answering some

questions about the gold plates and Joseph smith and such" it was

awesome! We never know what we can do. It is awesome because that

member has no idea how much of an impact he made on her. We went back

last night and she has already read up to chapter 8! And all the

introduction and stuff and was sharing it all with her husband. She

said this is way better than the bible I love it! She was explaining

in detail what she read and it was just awesome. They said they are

looking for religion in their life and are just sweet. Suzie and Bill,

good, humble, happy people

 Such awesome miracles this week and that exceeding glad joy was felt.

You can't feel it anywhere else, doing anything else. It feels so good

to see people get excited about the gospel and see their life change

for the better as they live it.

Love it

Have a good week! Love ya

Love Elder David Witt

Caught the sun this morning


Sent from my iPad

Patience

This week was pretty crazy.
I read a talk earlier this week, or maybe last week about patience,
one part says "I had only three months left on my mission, and I
wanted to be out with the people--not sick in bed."
Oddly enough I was sick this week -_-
My stomach has been hurting super bad this week, so I went to the
doctors. They did some tests and there weren't any parasites in my
stomach. So they wanted me to come back today and do blood tests.
Those mostly came back positive, they are still waiting on one sample
to make sure all is good. I have to get my gallbladder looked at
though, it was very interesting brother Cobell, a GI doctor in our
ward, said he knew a sister missionary who served in Ukraine and she
got her gallbladder tested after all the other tests and said there
was an infection, they somehow traced it back to bagged yogurt, which
is really good. So I guess I will get it looked at and see what's up.
Also when I told the dr that I had a worm, she was super confused to
why I didn't come in before, ha I didn't know. But I guess I don't
have a bunch in my stomach..so that's good.
Patience though. Patience is a virtue and virtues never hurt you. Thanks mom. 😀
Also we recently listened to and talked about it with the Ciks, the
talk by Elder Wirthlin, come what may and love it. All of us have been
using that line when the day hasn't been going so well. It is a good
principle to learn.

Sundays are always the best. It was a good night with the YSA splits
as well, visited a few people and one of the guys who came with us
kept saying the gospel is so true, and I can't wait to go on a
mission, whereas only a few months ago he wasn't sure if he wanted to
go. Ah the Lord is so merciful with his tender mercies and allows us
to have so many simple and intense, testimony building, experiences.
Had a pretty sweet lesson with Gabe, we were talking about the
priesthood, and he is only 11 so we were talking about how he can
prepare for the priesthood and we asked, why do we have to be worthy
to hold the priesthood? His answer was so profound, he is so smart,
"because the power behind the priesthood won't be there and the Holy
Ghost won't be there." Dang I don't think I understood that until
maybe a few years ago.
We had dinner with the Irwins, and it was so awesome. They were
talking about missionary work and brother Irwin is all pumped up that
he just got called to be a ward missionary. It is so awesome to see
how the gospel has blessed their lives and how it has made them so
happy, they want to share it with others. They also talked about how
they all want to go on missions. It feels so good to see others be so
happy!!
We met other people this week and had some other lessons. We are
finding a lot of new people actually so it has been pretty sweet, now
we just need all of these people to progress!

Just got back from my ultra sound, it didn't come out quite like sab's
or Mel's  ha ha
They said the results will come back tomorrow. But I'm fine don't
worry about me, mamma cik is takin good care of us.

Also Trae one of the YM here got his mission call to the Ukraine Kiev
Mission!! I almost stood up in sacrament when it was announced and
cheered ha how awesome though!! I hope he gets to go to pechersky and
harkov. Ah I am so pumped for him!!

Love you and have a good week!
Love, Elder Witt

GR8 Week

We just got back from hiking, it is great to live at the Ciks since
they enjoy hiking and will drive us. It was fun, we went up to the
jewel basin, it was sweet. Got a little sunburned.

This week was awesome though so many miracles. It has been a huge
testimony builder to me and little things that make my testimony so
much stronger. Many times our faith was tested until the very end.

We were Tracting last Monday and we knocked on a few doors and the
people were crazy or rude, so we had time for one more door before our
lesson, so we knocked on this lady's door, I had talked to her about 4
months ago and she was kinda crazy so I was a little reluctant to
knock on her door again, but we did and she was super nice and then we
gave her a pamphlet and she flipped it over and noticed a picture of
the Book of Mormon she is like oh hey my son is Mormon, and he walks
into the room and was like yeah my life use to be better when I was
active and stuff, I should get back into it.
It  was sweet! Unfortunately....the street was our ward boundary and
they lived on the other side of our boundary so unfortunately we
aren't teaching him.
We went to our lesson though and she didn't answer so we went down the
street to tract and she drove by us then remembered she had an
appointment with us. If we wouldn't have talked to that lady we
wouldn't have been at the right place at the right time to see Sister
Cuthbert for her lesson, it was sweet.

The next day we had MLC and it was a great meeting, there aren't
really any cliques anymore so that is good and a ton of missionaries I
have served around are now on the council, Elder Decker being one, I
am proud of him for being a sweet missionary. Anyway it was good- we
discussed better ways to help missionaries, through planning and
exchanges and other things. It ended early so we had time to find, we
tracted in this trailer park, and everyone wasn't interested and we
had about 10 minutes left and we finally knocked on this lady's door
and she listened to us and said we could come back, she really felt
the Spirit and wanted to know more, unfortunately she called and said
she didn't know anymore, so we are going to go over there and see if
we could at least teach her once.

Exchanges with Elder McGrath (AP) (this was the morning he left, the
day before we had a sweet day finding people and teaching people)

We had a zone training and Elder Wolf and I were in charge and we did
a faith to find discussion, we had 30 minutes to go find someone we
could teach (that morning I had picked areas where the missionaries
would go and we let the other missionaries pick a number associated
with an area and we got the area I didn't want, since I had knocked
there before) so we go out and knock on a few doors, the first lady
that answered was like sure you guys could come back, that'd be great!
And the second guy we talked to said he was busy but he knew some
members and said he was going through a hard time so we could come
back. We came back and shared, some other missionaries had also found
some people. And others had great contact with people. It was a great
way to stretch my faith and see miracles.

We went Tracting other night and we went over to this trailer park and
right after we got out of the truck some guy pulled up to us and told
us we needed to get out since they were sick of religious people
knocking on their door, we prayed about it, felt like we should leave,
we went to another place and talked to a few people then this little
girl on her bike was like who are you? We told her we were
missionaries and she was like oh you can come talk to my dad ha so she
escorted us on her bike down the driveway, we had a great discussion
with them and he said my daughter had been asking a lot of questions
about religion so I think this would be great! I would also love to be
at church, unfortunately I think he had some family things come up
yesterday so he didn't make it, but we are going to try him tonight so
that should be good,

Had a weird experience trying a potential investigator, we went and
asked if we could get the members personal copy of the Book of Mormon
back and he freaked out and gave us a bible that we had given him and
he was a young how rude it was to take a bible away,me tried to give
it back and give another copy of the Book of Mormon but he said nope
not taking it, then he went inside for a bit as we talked to his wife,
then he came  back and said come in, (kinda thought of Saratov
approach for a second...) and he asked us to say a prayer, he said
thanks and said he wanted the Book of Mormon and bible and said we
could come back, he didn't quite understand we wanted the members
personal copy back not the bible. I love people.

I was on exchanges and we met this lady who was so nice. She was like
I listen to music and the spoken word every week, I love the Mormon
tabernacle choir. And she was interested in prophets and such. Then
she asked if we had gone to college and we said no and she asked what
I wanted to do, I said something with business administration, she
told a story then said oh could I be your secretary ha, but regardless
she was really nice and loves the church and wants us to come back.

We had interviews with Preisent Wadsworth this week as well, he asked
about having four missiom presidents ha, yeah that has been
interesting but I have learned a lot from all four of them.  It was
good to get to know him, he is such a great man. It is sweet because
President Mecham for his profession, went in gutted out the garbage
and built a sturdy base for the company to work up. President
Wadsworth's profession was to build from a sturdy base and make things
prosper, so it will be cool to see how much this mission grows.

Church was grand, it always is. I love the sabbath day. I love the
fast. I love my Savior Jesus Christ and am so grateful for His
redemptive and enabling powers of the Atonement, they are so real, I
am thankful to bear His name and share His gospel.
I love you and have a great week!

с любовью,
Elder David Witt

Exciting Miracles

Well this week has been pretty rad.
Lots of new things and exciting miracles.

So I guess I'll first start off with something super cool and
spiritual. We got a phone call from the office a couple weeks ago
saying there was someone from California who wants to get baptized and
he is coming here for the summer for vacation. He has been taught
everything but is going to be baptized here. So we were out in
Lakeside and had dinner with some members out there and met their son
in law, Ted, who was going to be baptized. He has been married to his
member wife for 13 years and a couple months ago decided to get
baptized. So it was sweet, we got to wake up early Saturday morning
and go to the lake and watch him get baptized. It was a neat
experience. There were some talks and songs at their home and it was
great! See the pictures. 

Bro Webb's baptism



Transfers were this week and I was able to meet Elder Wolf. He is from
Yucipia, California. He has been out for about 16 months and just came
from the Gillet zone, the most south east of the mission. And just
like elder Eddington came all the way up north west, to the promise
land. He is a great missionary and a hard worker. So I am excited
about the things that will happen this transfer.

We had a dinner at President Clarks house with all of the missionaries
serving in this zone this transfer, we do it every month, but we
decided to get a picture this time. It seems like good things are
going to happen in this zone.

Kalispell zone at  president Clark's home

Elder and Sister Osburn (from St. George), E. Brewster, E. Anderson,
Sister and President Clark (and their cute grandson) E. McKenzie, E.
Hansen, bro Casson (K1 WML), E. Witt, Sister and Brother Torren
(Lakeside-BML), E. Jameson, S. Linney, S.King, E. Wolf

We found a few new potential investigators so hopefully things
flourish with them. We had a great lesson with the Luis' and sister
Luis just texted us last night telling us she finished doctrine and
covenants and the pearl of great price. She was so excited and said
she felt the spirit and so much clarity as she read. It was so awesome
to get that text, it has been great to see their family progress. Jim
is back on date and we had several great less active member lessons,
there are several who want to go to the temple and are trying to make
changes to do so.


Finally had flathead Cherries-they were delicious!!

Sounds like you had a blast in Cody. Gotta love family. When is the
next family party? Haha

Love you all and hope you have a great week!
Love Elder David Witt

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