So another week down and it was a pretty good one!  

Thanksgiving was great and we actually got to relax a bit.  Thursday morning we went on an exchange because Elder Clark didn't want to play football in the morning and Elder Luke did.   So i went with Elder Luke to the Turkey Bowl.  It was super fun.  It was supposed to be flag football, but it was more like half flag half tackle.  haha

We had dinner that afternoon with Bishop Ebert and his family and it was really good!  We played some games with them and hung out there most of the day.  

Other than that, we've been teaching a few people and it's going pretty well.  Last week when we were tracting we found Kristen, Gary and their kids.  We went back Saturday to teach them another lesson.  It was an awesome lesson on the Restoration and they are super solid!  It'll be awesome to teach them all the lessons. 

We also had interviews with President which went pretty well.  He seems happy with me so that's always good.

I'm hoping i get to stay here in 3rd ward this upcoming transfer since we've found many investigators and several are progressing really well.  But i will probably get kicked out since I want to stay.  lol Either way, I'm looking forward to the Christmas season
Stay Solid 

This week has been interesting! Definitely a difficult week but several great things happened too.

Henry was baptized and it was awesome to see!  There were a bunch of people from the ward that came to support him as well as his mom, who's not a member.....yet!  He was super happy and it was good to see the difference from the first week we started teaching him to now.  

We also had specialized training this week which was good.  It was a pretty long meeting on several different topics, the main one being Faith to find and baptize converts by President Russell.  It was good because I often find myself knocking on doors and expecting to get yelled at or rejected.  haha  So Elder Clark and I have been working on that.  Just Saturday night after the baptism, our plans fell through so we decided to go tract a specific street.  We walked to the street and stopped to pray and decide what we would introduce.  We decided we would use the  Book of Mormon and the Family Proclamation.  It was crazy because we found two families who are interested and want us to come back.  So we found several new investigators and it was good to see the effects of being diligent.  

Sunday, Henry was confirmed and that was awesome too!

For some reason I've been having a hard time keeping my mind here in the mission and not back at home.  That doesn't really make things easy.  haha  But I'm going to focus on being focused since that seems to be my biggest problem right now.  

Anyway, a couple random things--Elder Clark and I started a new workout program that's decent and I really noticed how working out everyday makes our day better.  So if anyone reads this I encourage you to workout everyday.  It'll help you get through the day. 

As for my studies, I've been studying the Gospels and 3rd Nephi together.  I encourage everyone to do that if they haven't.  It's cool to see how they go together.  Other than that, my only words of advice are "change the game, don't let the game change you!"  Not super sure what that means but it sounds good. 

I love all of you and appreciate the support
Stay Solid

This week was pretty dope!

So this was the first week with Elder Clark and it was super awesome.  He's from New Mexico but he's cooler than the average person you would imagine from New Mexico--JK  He's pretty good at piano and guitar which is cool because it's sweet being able to learn more piano every time we can.  So we'll see how that turns out.

Anyway, I'm still DL but our districts got changed up so now i have different sisters and the ZL's are with us.  It was a good district meeting Friday about less actives so that was good.

We did a lot of contacting this week which has been successful at some points and very frustrating and not successful at others.  Henry got his baptismal interview and is set to go for this Saturday.  It's exciting and its going to be so awesome to see that happen!  We are teaching a really cool guy named Randy and hopefully we will be able to invite him to be baptized this upcoming week also.

The highlight of the week was Tuesday when we both got our bikes good to go.  (Elder Clark hadn't even taken his out of the box yet) So we ride our bikes Tuesday and everything is great.  Then Wednesday night we see one of our investigators and leave our bikes against his front door.......Not a good idea!  Elder Clark's bike got stolen and now we have to do this entire transfer on foot again :)  So we decided to keep track of how much we walked this week from Wednesday to Saturday and it was just under 50 miles. lol  so that was fun

I've learned a couple things this week:
1  Lock your bike up!
2. Music is like the best entertainment for missionaries
3. This week while we were doing service, I was getting frustrated.  We serve food to a lot of homeless people.  We wash their dishes and clean up after them.  I was annoyed thinking why do we have to do this?  I had a bad attitude thinking we shouldn't have to do all the work for them.  But then i realized that there's really no reason to feel that way because i have been fortunate and given all i need to get by.  I am able to take care of myself and i should help others no matter what their choices are. So i have learned to have a better attitude in helping those less fortunate than me.

Anyway, good luck trying to trump my week
Love You
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Sawyer's District

Working on the Pig Farm again

Having dinner with Old family friends

This week went by oddly fast. This was the last week of the transfer so there has been a bit of packing and saying goodbyes for elder Baxter. We found out Saturday that I'm staying here as district leader again and I'm getting another missionary who has been out 3 months named elder Clark. I've already met him because he came out at the same time elder Nelson did so I'm pretty happy because he seems pretty cool. The craziest thing about this entire transfer is that the 8th ward elders who live like 5 minutes away from us are going to be elder Falatea (my trainer) elder Nelson (who I trained)! It's so sick! I'm going to be able to see them all the time which is awesome! So this transfer could be great.

I'm also really excited because this transfer is Thanksgiving, which means turkey bowl! And also Henry will be baptized! This last transfer was good because I was able to meet all the investigators and figure out who to focus on and how we could best help this area so this next transfer we are going to go hard in the work and get'er done. It's only a five week transfer because of Christmas but it will be good.

So for this past week, we were able to have a few pretty good lessons. Had my first lesson with a great family. They are super awesome. They are a young couple who are a less active and part member so I think it will be awesome to focus on them! 

Also we have continued to have lessons with Henry even though we have finished all the lessons twice haha but it is so awesome because he sends us texts almost daily talking about how excited he is to get baptized. So that will be so awesome to see this next week! 

Also taylie was baptized on Saturday in Utah! So that was cool, it was elder baxters first baptism so it was good to be with him during that. It's definitely not as exciting when it's in Utah but it's whatever haha. I will send pictures with her probably next week because they aren't home yet. 

Other than that the only other thing we did this week  was attend a conference with half the southern half of the mission on Thursday and it was pretty much like 5 hours of getting chastened real good haha. Like it's crazy, missionaries are usually like 18-20 year old kids and as soon as you become a missionary no one even sees you as that anymore, they all of a sudden think you're very responsible and a perfect person. Let me tell you, it's not true lol. Well anyway that's all for this week I think.

Stay Solid

 He said he didn't take any pictures this week so he just took a picture off the wall at the church and took a picture with it???

Pig Farming

Happy Halloween!!

This week was pretty whatever!  There wasn't anything super exciting, but luckily there wasn't anything really bad either.

Henry got his second baptismal interview and his baptism was moved to November 19th, but its all good.  He'll just be more ready once that date gets here!  He's still super excited even though the date's been pushed back.

Taylie had her baptismal interview yesterday and she'll be getting baptized this Saturday.  Sadly it'll be in Utah where her family is so we won't even be able to see it!! LOL  But it's all good, she's super awesome and I can't wait to see her go to the temple.

We did a good bit of service this week including one service project at a pig farm owned by one of the members.  We moved pigs from one pen to another and MAN! some of those pigs weighed more than me so it was a good workout!

Its the last week of this transfer so I taught my last district meeting since next week is a zone meeting.

That's about it for this week.  Hope everyone had a good week and I miss everyone.  Have fun tonight and send some picture of y'all partying
Stay Solid

Pig Farm Service

So this week was freakin long and asinine. But you know, doing the lords work can't be that asinine so it was alright. 

This week was a lot of walking around contacting and having lessons. We finished all of the lessons with Henry and he will be having his interview to be baptized soon. He might get baptized on the 29th if the interview happens so that's exciting. 

Also Taylie, the 13 year old that we have been teaching, will be baptized next week so we are getting ready for that. Other than that, we got dropped by our other on date out of no where so that was rough but we are going to continue to talk to her and see if we can resolve it.

In other news, I'm getting closer to being able to dunk (basketball) so that's exciting and also I'm pretty sure I'm losing weight because of how much we walk :( 

We also got an announcement that starting next transfer very few elders will be getting cars anymore lol so that should be fun considering it rains like every day!

Also we had Book of Mormon week this week where the whole mission focused on reading a single book out of the Book of Mormon and giving out an open Book of Mormon everyday. I read Ether and Moroni and it was really good for me. I think choosing a specific book out of the Book of Mormon is a really good way to get new things out of the Book of Mormon. Anyway, that's about it. Have a great week and I appreciate the support.

Stay Solid!