This week was the best week I have had so far since being here in Blue Creek and Central. Elder Garcia and I taught eighteen lessons, had a baptism, found five new investigators, received a couple of referrals, people came to church, lots of service, and we still spent time fulfilling our calling as online assistants. Needless to say we were pretty busy but it was worth it!
Couple of highlights. Of course Jen's baptism was the big highlight of the week. It went really well and was very spiritual. One of the speakers forgot all about it, so I was asked ten minutes before to speak. I think I did an OK job with it, no one booed me off. There were quite a few non-member friends and family members that Jen invited; it was the first time a couple of them had set foot in and LDS church.
When Elder Garcia came down here, he put a status on Facebook that he was in Billings and an investigator from Poplar that he had taught commented that she was as well. Turns out she is living in our area! We were able to get in with her and her brothers this week, hopefully we can keep helping them.
The mission office got a call from a man who said he was a less-active member but wanted to come back and asked for missionaries. We went and stopped by and had a really good visit with him and two of his sons, neither of which are members. He is really sincere and has the desire to come back. When we tried to track down his records, turns out he was on the Monad records listed as a "Do Not Contact." The Spirit can help change people and everything in the Lord's time.
We have been doing a lot of service this past week as well. Brother Miller and his son have been working on fixing up their basement, so we got to help scrape tile, paint, and move furniture. It was lots of fun and it is looking better already!
The scripture for the week is Alma 32:26-43. We have shared this scripture with a lot of people this week and we are going to go over it tomorrow in district meeting. Check it out!
Thanks for all the support with the online proselyting effort. My blog post this last week had 76 views in four days and became the third most viewed post on my blog. We are seeing a lot of good come from people back home sharing messages and insights along with missionaries. Just as in regular door-to-door missionary work, we need all the help we can get.
Take care.
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Elder Wixom
montanabillingsmission.blogspot.com
rhwixom.blogspot.com
Couple of highlights. Of course Jen's baptism was the big highlight of the week. It went really well and was very spiritual. One of the speakers forgot all about it, so I was asked ten minutes before to speak. I think I did an OK job with it, no one booed me off. There were quite a few non-member friends and family members that Jen invited; it was the first time a couple of them had set foot in and LDS church.
When Elder Garcia came down here, he put a status on Facebook that he was in Billings and an investigator from Poplar that he had taught commented that she was as well. Turns out she is living in our area! We were able to get in with her and her brothers this week, hopefully we can keep helping them.
The mission office got a call from a man who said he was a less-active member but wanted to come back and asked for missionaries. We went and stopped by and had a really good visit with him and two of his sons, neither of which are members. He is really sincere and has the desire to come back. When we tried to track down his records, turns out he was on the Monad records listed as a "Do Not Contact." The Spirit can help change people and everything in the Lord's time.
We have been doing a lot of service this past week as well. Brother Miller and his son have been working on fixing up their basement, so we got to help scrape tile, paint, and move furniture. It was lots of fun and it is looking better already!
The scripture for the week is Alma 32:26-43. We have shared this scripture with a lot of people this week and we are going to go over it tomorrow in district meeting. Check it out!
Thanks for all the support with the online proselyting effort. My blog post this last week had 76 views in four days and became the third most viewed post on my blog. We are seeing a lot of good come from people back home sharing messages and insights along with missionaries. Just as in regular door-to-door missionary work, we need all the help we can get.
Take care.
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Elder Wixom
montanabillingsmission.blogspot.com
rhwixom.blogspot.com
