Well Good morn' to ya!
Got me a speeding ticket!!!! This week has been awesome! Not too much success with our investigators because our appointments kept falling through. But, with all of the fallen through appointments came an excellent opportunity to serve others. Because our schedule was so open through the day traveling to less-active members house, we found ourselves driving a lot more. We had just gotten done knocking on a door of an inactive family's house and nobody answered, so we left and started driving down the highway. We came up to a man outfront of his house cutting down a tree with his chainsaw and we ended up just passing him and waving at him. about 100 yards down the road, I told Elder buckley to turn around and lets help the guy out, he is an older gentleman and looks like he could use our help. So we turned around and got out of the car and offered him our help. He looked at us and laughed, so we took that as a yes and started loading the back of his truck with the branches. we spent a good hour and a half there helping him out, had a good conversation to get to know him a little bit. He lives at home with his wife and are battling skin cancer, and some other health problems and he told us that there needs to be more of "your type of people" around to make this world a better place. The man was really cool, very friendly, and is looking forward to us coming over sometime to maybe teach him about our church. The spirit sure does direct you to people and if it werent for me following the prompting i had received, we would have never met that man. It was a cool experience to just pull off to the side of the highway and to help someone we didnt even know.
Went and saw Billy again and he was telling us how one day he was watching a tv program on how drugs fry your brain like an egg on a frypan. He was actually smoking weed when watching the show and just sat on the couch and laughed at it. He then went on to tell us that weed makes you want to eat a lot and how one time he smoked and then went to mcdonalds and ordered 45 milkshakes, 30 orders of fries and so on, so forth. we gave him a restoration dvd to watch because he says he has nothing to do all day but watch movies and play with the cats, so we handed him one of those. hopefully he watches it sober and can feel the spirit. we will see.
So i got my Virginia Drivers license on Friday!!! pretty stoked about that! I drove for half of the day friday and all day saturday. We went to Emporia on Saturday and on the way there i got pulled over by the Greensville County Sherriff! hahahahahahahahaha!!! It was a 55 zone all along the highway and i had cruise control set at 58. I passed the 45mph sign without even seeing it, and was inside the 45 zone for about 150 yards. Elder Buckley says "oh, theres a cop right there" (not even realizing that i was speeding), the cop pulls out of the gas station, fish-tails it on the highway and at that point, i already knew he was coming for me. I laughed a little bit, and then he lit me up. Pulled over and handed him my temporary drivers license and told him "just got it yesterday sir" he laughed a little bit and then told me "ill see what i can do for ya." Now im thinking that im going to get out of a speeding ticket until i see him step out of his car with a pad of paper in his hand. i told Elder Buckley to take a picture of the sherriffs car behind us, and we took a little video also. It was so funny!!! One of those good mission stories i can tell years after im done. I called the courthouse to see how much this thing is going to be, and its only $6 for every mph over the speed limit plus a $61 processing fee. so its going to be like $120 or something because he helped me out a little bit and put i was going 56 in a 45 on the ticket. However, we went to CVS pharmacy to develop the picture of the cop car behind us and the lady working there knows us pretty well because we have invited her to church and everything and she tells us that she knows the officer that pulled me over and she will tell him to not go to court that day!!!! WOW! I was like for reals???? she said yup! just go to court that day and ill be sure he isnt there. So, im just praying that on April 6th, the Deputy with Greensville County Sherriff isnt at the Emporia Courthouse. Makes me feel a little bettter too that dad got a speeding ticket on his mission! These little ho-dunk towns are speedtraps! 25mph every where, and they have nothing else to do but pull people over.
We are still shooting for Feb 25th for Veronica's baptism. she has to go to church one more time, so if she isnt able to make it next week to church, we will have to push the baptismal date back to march sometime. hopefully she will be able to get work off to make it this sunday! we are praying for a miracle to happen. Marcus is still doing good, we watched prophet of the restoration with him last night at the church building and said that he wished he were there to punch the guys in the face who killed Joseph Smith. It is good in a way, because it shows that he has a testimony of Joseph Smith. Marcus is so cool, we play ball with him eonce a week to get him out and about and let me tell ya, he has a good shot! you could tell that he grew up playing streetball with the boys in the neighborhood.
We got a new investigator this week, and a couple more contacts too! We went to teach a lady and her son was in the house and sat in on the Plan of Salvation lesson and wants us to come back and teach him more! so we will be going over there tomorrow to teach the both of them. The other contacts we got were that man that we did service for on the highway and a family. the family we met was at a christian bible study. we got invited to it by one of our former investigators, so we said sure why not! We got there and got preached to for about an hour about being healed. At the end of it, they invited anyone that needed to be healed to come up and pray with this guy and if we had enough faith, then he would heal us. It was a good experience to see other churches and how they taught, but the only thing i got out of it was reassurement that our church was the only true church here on the earth today and only through the power of God and the authority of the priesthood, may we be healed, only if it is God's will. but anyways, they pastor's wife of this church came up to us and invited us to her house, so we will be calling her this week sometime to set up an appointment. It will be interesting.
Ian making the Volleyball team huh?! that is so cool! Im way stoked for you bro! You will do great! just continue to do your best and impress the coaches! let me know how your season goes and if you do end up dressing for Varsity! Man, im so excited for you!!!
Kennady also! how was meeting your coaches? and let me know how your first practice goes and how the team looks! That is so good that you are going out and playing softball again. You were always good at it and im so happy to see that you are continuing it. Practice hard! Church is very different out here! theres only like 60 people that show up to church and the building is very small! But the people are nice and we got the relief society president to get people to feed us more often! so that was good!!! we have to eat out here too people!! haha. But definitely let me know how the season goes! I love you!
So you all head out to california?! Man am i jealous! haha. That will be super fun and Disneyland will be a blast! give everyone a hug for me and tell them that i miss them! That is so crazy that JT is getting baptized!!! what an awesome time in his life! Im so excited for him and the decision he has made. Have fun in Califonia, and i will Email y'all next week! Stay safe and Have fun!!
Love, Elder Baldwin
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