1/20/2014

So we have a had a fairly eventful week here in the area. We were able to go out with our ward mission leader almost everyday which has been really awesome and we were able to teach many lesson, most of which were to less actives) but we were able to find 3 over-age youth in this hunt to clean up the ward records that we will be able to hopefully start teaching. One is Jaden Crystal and he is 14 years old and his friend who lives across the street is currently serving a mission. We were going through the unbaptized over-age youth list when we found him (we found all 3 from this list) and we were able to share a lesson with him and invited him to be baptized on Jan 22nd and he accepted! His mom is a non-member as well but she wasn't as excited about the idea but she agreed to read the Book of Mormon and pray about it. The next was Tyler Shaw and he is 14 years old as well and as we were talking with him we found out that he was interested in learning more. His grandparents live next door and are active members and we were going to visit them when he happen to be there so we decided to share a quick message with them and left a soft commitment with him. We found out that he is currently really busy with school but that in couple weeks we could probably start teaching him. With that soft commitment I basically said if he were to find out for himself if what we have to share is true would he act on it and be baptized and left the invitation. He accepted as well but we did not set up a date for him mainly because we don't know when we are going to be able to start teaching him. So that was another awesome experience that we had this week. The third was a girl named Alexus Dutton and she is 10 years old and wants to be baptized. Like Tyler we went to go talk to relative that lives in the ward first (Alexus' Aunt) and she happen to be over visiting so we started to talk with her and that is when we found out that she wanted to be baptized! So we started talking with her and her aunt to find out what is currently holding her back from being baptized right now and she said that her mom wants her to start going to church first and learning more about the church. Unfortunatly, she did not come to church this week but we are going to try and start teaching her and hopefully we will be able to see her this week and we hope to be able to leave a baptismal invitation with her as well. 

Well that is the highlights from the past couple weeks and next week I should have a couple pictures for y'all :) I love and miss y'all very much and hope y'all have a great week!!!