Stumped

Well we had zone conference finally. It was all focused on baptism and they made me give a talk on baptism but it was alright. Our mission is really focused on our purpose.

While we were out knocking on doors in the country we were driving down someone's driveway in the forest and I hit a stump that was on the corner and popped our tire on our car and damaged the door with the stump :( it was a sad day.

We got two people on baptismal date this week. An awesome older lady named Dawn and our good friend Chuck. 

One evening when were were walking on main street in Warsaw some horse just trotted past us on main street like it owned the place. So we went and knocked the door of the person who owned it and told them.. The horse seemed to follow us through town as people tried to catch it.

Carl's baptism

It was a nice week with Carl's baptism. His brother showed up for it and he looks just like Carl only skinnier. It was a very simple program. 

Through out the week we found a lot of people who we have started teaching and are genuinely interested. We got to meet with Chuck again and start teaching him. 

They called a gospel principles teacher and so I don't have to teach it anymore. The class is actually big enough that we are going to have to find a class room or get rid of the table we sit around normally.

I'm very grateful for the time I've had to reflect on my time spent with my father that I'm still learning from. I hope everyone has a good week.

We accidentally melted my dagger  :-(  We were trying to quench it to make it ultra hard steel. We accidentally got the forge to at least 3500 degrees...

Countless continua

This week was much like all other weeks...

It's just Elder Clinger and I walking around Warsaw now. We got to watch the youth devotional thing with the Prophet which was nice.

Carl is all ready to have his baptism on Saturday which will be great to participate in. 

Brother Degraff, a recent convert, had a stroke this week and he is in buffalo. He is doing alright, he is just a little unsteady because he lost the coordination in his right side. 

There was some old guy we met out in the sticks that was in this old cluttered saw mill. We thought we saw him when we were walking around but then we couldn't find him and when we went back to the opening he was standing there holding the post. He only has one eye and he is the most classic old man you've ever imagined. It was straight out of a movie scene. His name is Ken and we sat and talked about the restoration for a while sipping lemon twist or something. Reminded me of Harold in Palmyra.

Happy endings and new beginnings

This was Elder Steeds last week. He left us yesterday night to stay with Batavia because Elder samhammer is going home too. Elder Clinger and I are staying in Warsaw this transfer.

We had exchanges. It was decently hot which was nice. 

Carl didn't make it to church this week but he is pumped to be baptized.

Elder Richard j maynes came and spoke to our mission. He talked about Joseph Smith's first vision and broke it down and it was quite insightful. He shared an experience of organizing a new stake with Elder Hales which he said he had never shared with anyone. It was about the confirmation to their prayer about who was supposed to be the stake President.

We found a turtle on the side of the road laying eggs yesterday evening so I at least got a couple pictures this week.