This week was a successful week in finding investigators and teaching lessons. We were able to get 4 new investigators from one single lesson. that was pretty cool. One of the investigators has previously investigated the church and the only thing holding him back from baptism was Galatians 1:8. Next time we meet with him we are going to explain to him that Joseph Smith and the church teach the same things that Paul taught to the galatians. He investigated for 2 years, went to a temple open house and loved it, and that one scripture is the only thing holding him back. He is engaged to one of the other girls sitting in the lesson. All 4 of them enjoyed the lesson and 3 of them accepted the invitation to be baptized. It was the first lesson that i felt like i was being myself and wasn't teaching in a stiff-type of way, if that makes any sense. Hopefully we can get all 4 of them together again at the same time to teach them again. we will see....
We went over to Sister Minozzi's farm to help her a little bit. We helped clean out the barn and helped her move the goats. She gave us a bunch of license plates, so i will send them home eventually. Sis Minozzi is so cool. We are trying really hard to get her back to church! Her husband is a trucker and only comes home on the weekends, so she spends time with him.
On Tuesday we had another lesson with the Edmonds. They are awesome. I love them so much. They fed us so much! Big plate of Lasagna and salad and some bread and she fed us some pound cake with cool whip and strawberries on top. She is a good cook and loves to feed us. We went over there last night and they fed us jumbo cheeseburgers unexpectedly. She sewed up my pants on the machine and reinforced the leg seams and crotch seems. She also re-sewed my reflector strip on my backpack because she saw how I sewed it on the first time and felt bad i guess. haha. She did her up good. They love to tell stories!!! hahah. Some of them are hilarious. He told us one of his halloween pranks as a kid.
He had many many more to tell about tippin' peoples outhouses over while they were in it, and all kinds of hilarious stuff they did as kids. the Edmonds are awesome. He has a few concerns about heaven and who is going to heaven, so we are going to have to study up on it this week to answer his questions. We meet with them again on Friday.
We went to transfer meeting on Thursday and talked to Pres. Perry. Elder Buckley asked if we could go visit one of his recent converts along with one of the member families he visited a lot. The recent converts, Beth and Jerry are going to feed us this Thursday. I guess when they feed the missionaries, they go all-out. That will be fun. They are really good people and they just got their Patriarchial Blessings and are preapring to go through the temple soon. After visiting them, we went over to the other families house. The husband has MS and is bed-ridden, same with the son. He was so appreciative of us stopping by. You could tell how much he loved Elder Buckley when we walked in. His face just lit up. It was pretty cool. After spending a few minutes with him, we had to hit the highway for our hour and a half journey back home to make it to James' funeral service. It was a good service. A lot of nice things were said about him.
That was the big week we had. 4 new investigators, 2 dinners, a funeral, whoopee!!!
Friday, we are doing exchanges with the Zone Leaders. One of them is coming here with me in Lawrenceville. It will be cool to learn from a zone leader. Our ZL' s are good missionaries and show great charity for everyone.
Tell everyone I said Hello. I love you all and miss you! Take care, you are all in my prayers. Peace!
Love, Elder Baldwin
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