Hey all!!!!
The mtc is still going great! I'm so gald to hear that things are still well at home. and thanks for the sports update! everyone here always asks the non-missionaries on temple grounds who won the big games and all...pretty funny. they just laugh when we ask and then give us a little update. I also hear Mitt Romney is doing well? maybe that will spark an interest in the church for the non members! a great missionary opportunity is arising! So my second week started off with a big bang!!!!!! last sunday, Russell M. Nelson came and spoke to us! i was sitting like 50 feet away from him...no biggy! we all thought he would talk to us on how to be better missionaries and how to teach investigators and all, but no. he talked all doctrine which was amazing. The gathering of israel and how we as missionaries make all of that possible. it was so awesome having a general authority there to speak to us. the spirit that was in the room as he walked in with all 2000 missionaries standing up singing called to serve was amazing!
so the investigator that we taught for the first time didnt show up the second time...but did show up for the third appt. he just talked to the whole time about his amputation and himself growing closer to the savior. he cried the whole time, so we didnt really get to teach him anything. i think it was just a good therapy session for him to let it out. the only invite we were able to commit him to was to read and pray every day. next visit we will invite him to be baptized, he is so ready. he already has such a strong testimony and he has been reading and praying so much. he knows that the book is true i can see it in his eyes.
so this whole past week, well since i got here ive been having trouble sleeping. It would take me a few hours to fall asleep and then i would wake up in the middle of the night a couple times and it was effecting my studies and class time because i couldnt concentrate. my teacher told me to go see the doctor here on campus, and he prescribed me some sleeping meds. so since then, ive been sleeping great and my studies and class are back to normal! thank goodness!!! ive been learning so much here. it isnt the missionaries that do the converting, it is the spirit. we can tell our investigators that what we are teaching them is true, but we dont want them to just take our word for it. they have to read and pray for themselves to know these things are true and as they read and pray, their faith grows and their testimony grows, and then they want to be baptized, it is such an amazing thing to see investigators grow. ya, they may not be real, but it is still cool to experience it. im glad to hear you updated the blog!!! atta beezies.
i didnt get to send out any thank you's to the people who sent me stuff, but thank you Ryan and Tenneal for the package and the letters! you guys are awesome and the candy was great! i will try to get letters out today, but forgive me if i dont. my time on pday is shortened because we have devotional on our pday...
thank you jeff and michelle for the package also!! i have to figure out what im going to do with the silly string :) and thank you for the rice krispie treats! they were delicioius!
thank you steve for the $20, i got myself some altoids and jolly ranchers, and will be back to the store to get some more today! :)
Thank you janna and troy sills for the banana nut bread!!! oh my goodness was that delicious!!!!!!!! my companions were so jealous of them, but i was a good missionary and shared :)
i feel like im forgetting someone! :(
i will try my best to get letters out today to everyone who wrote me. keep writing me, and sending packages!! i love them! haha and mom and dad, dont be afraid to write me a letter also. its always a good happy feeling when i look in the mailbox and see letters there for me, and package slips.
at this time next week, i will only have one more day in the MTC! whoo whoo! im so excited, we already got our travel iteneraries and we have to be at the travel office at 4am on the 25th! eeeeek. itll be fun though. im going to place a Book of Mormon in the airport :) chu know!
my camera is acting dumb..... all of the pictures i take are blurry. i always have to take like 3 pictures and out of those 3 pics, 1 is decent. so we gotta figure that out. i cant have a camera that doesnt take good pics. write me a letter with a suggestion with what i should do :)
I will be sending pictures out today of some of the things i have been doing here in the mtc. so be expecting those later in the week!
I cant think of anything else to say, so i guess this is it til next week. wish me luck on my last week here. maybe ill be able to call you at the airport, idk though.....
hows ian doing? what has he been up to these days with his group of friends? whats kennady been up to? is ian still playing volleyball or what is going on with that? kennady needs to play a sport too. she is too athletic to not be playing anything. im sure i will get their letters today, so ill try to respond to them asap! well, ill caht with you later!!! love you all!!!
love, Elder Baldwin
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