>
> Manchester is GREAT!
>
> How are you all doing? I am doing so well here in the Manchester area!
> so many miracles are waiting to happen here. Transfers was no biggy, I
> said goodbye to everyone and i was on my way! My Companions are Elder
> Cook, former AP, and Elder Powell, fresh out of the MTC waiting to go
> to Bulgaria. He will only be here for a couple weeks. I guess the
> Bulgarian missionaries get their Visas pretty quick. In his free time back at home in Texas he enjoyed
> catching Frogs, Snakes, Lizards, and writing computer programs. Elder
> Cook and I are just being an example to him so he can grow to be an
> excellent missionary. I dont know what
> Bulgarian is supposed to sound like, but i guess he can speak it
> pretty well. i only know how to say "elder" in it because they use a
> different alphabet and its difficult to learn. We get an extra hour of
> study time because he has to study the language, so i usually just
> read an ensign or something or read the Color Code. Elder Cook is from
> Seattle, Washington and is going home in 5 weeks!! Im killing him off!
> hahah He is a great elder and works super hard! Ive tracted more in
> the last 4 days ive been here than i have my whole mission. Tracting
> with him makes it fun because he is really good at asking inspired
> questions to get people thinking about religion.
> We dont have too many investigators right now, but we have a lot
> of potentials that appear to be pretty solid. One of them is a lady
> named Lina. Brother Barr (a less
> active) went to china on a trip or something and found a woman that he
> wanted to marry (Lina). Lina knew no english. anyways... bro barr brought Lina back to the
> states, married her, and is trying to teach her english. i guess its
> come a long way since shes been here, but it is still super hard to
> understand what she is saying. I guess bro barr takes her to a chinese
> baptist church where she is able to communicate with the congregation
> which doesnt help because now she has a solid group of chinese friends
> that are baptist and are able to communicate with her and teach her
> about their church. Too bad we dont have any chinese missionaries in
> our mission to help us out.
> another investigator, Chase, was tracted into. it was the perfect
> time to tract intno him because he had been asking himself a lot of
> questions about religion. he had never read any of the bible before
> and showed great desire to learn more. we gave him a bible and a book
> of mormon and he commited to read the both of them. we taught him the
> first half of the plan of salvation and were able to answer a lot of
> his questions about pre-earth life, our purpose, and what happens
> after we die. everytime we meet with him he shows more and more desire
> to learn. he is golden and i am so excited to help him in his
> conversion. he is about 21 and works part time, but looking for a full
> time job so he doesnt have to work weekends. please pray for him! he
> was out of town this weekend, so we are going to call him today to
> schedule an appointment. :)
> Church yesterday was awesome. The ward is so cool! the people in
> it are great. the bishop really trusts us with anything which is so
> huge!!! we have a great ward mission leader, Nate Eaton who is the
> channel 8 news anchor. we call him channel 8 nate. he is legit. he's
> probably in his mid 20's and got married a year ago. he has a lot of
> enthusiasm towards missionary work and helps us out a ton. im really
> looking forward to working with him to further the work in this area.
> so there is a zoo in our area :) and a member in the ward owns it
> which means we get in for free!!! we are going there today so i will
> take pictures of me feeding the giraffes or something ahha. Im running
> into a bit of a problem though. this area we wear our suit coats
> everyday and i only have 2 pairs of pants that match my coats. my
> brown suit pants tore in the crotch, yes, im gaining weight!! i cant
> stand it. i run a mile in the morning and a mile at night but its not
> helping. i guess i need to bump it up, or lesson the chow. but, i'm
> going to need to purchase a couple pairs of black slacks to go with my
> black coat. we have every store imaginable here. theres a mall across
> the street with target, best buy, kohls, wal mart, many many
> resteraunts, and i think there is a tj maxx. could you transfer some
> money so i could buy a pair...like today? the suit pants im wearing
> now cant be thrown in the wash, theyre dry clean only and they stink!
> Sounds like you are going to get pretty busy with wedding plans!!!
> that is so crazy that you are planning for a wedding! I will get you a picture of me full length
>
> How are you all doing? I am doing so well here in the Manchester area!
> so many miracles are waiting to happen here. Transfers was no biggy, I
> said goodbye to everyone and i was on my way! My Companions are Elder
> Cook, former AP, and Elder Powell, fresh out of the MTC waiting to go
> to Bulgaria. He will only be here for a couple weeks. I guess the
> Bulgarian missionaries get their Visas pretty quick. In his free time back at home in Texas he enjoyed
> catching Frogs, Snakes, Lizards, and writing computer programs. Elder
> Cook and I are just being an example to him so he can grow to be an
> excellent missionary. I dont know what
> Bulgarian is supposed to sound like, but i guess he can speak it
> pretty well. i only know how to say "elder" in it because they use a
> different alphabet and its difficult to learn. We get an extra hour of
> study time because he has to study the language, so i usually just
> read an ensign or something or read the Color Code. Elder Cook is from
> Seattle, Washington and is going home in 5 weeks!! Im killing him off!
> hahah He is a great elder and works super hard! Ive tracted more in
> the last 4 days ive been here than i have my whole mission. Tracting
> with him makes it fun because he is really good at asking inspired
> questions to get people thinking about religion.
> We dont have too many investigators right now, but we have a lot
> of potentials that appear to be pretty solid. One of them is a lady
> named Lina. Brother Barr (a less
> active) went to china on a trip or something and found a woman that he
> wanted to marry (Lina). Lina knew no english. anyways... bro barr brought Lina back to the
> states, married her, and is trying to teach her english. i guess its
> come a long way since shes been here, but it is still super hard to
> understand what she is saying. I guess bro barr takes her to a chinese
> baptist church where she is able to communicate with the congregation
> which doesnt help because now she has a solid group of chinese friends
> that are baptist and are able to communicate with her and teach her
> about their church. Too bad we dont have any chinese missionaries in
> our mission to help us out.
> another investigator, Chase, was tracted into. it was the perfect
> time to tract intno him because he had been asking himself a lot of
> questions about religion. he had never read any of the bible before
> and showed great desire to learn more. we gave him a bible and a book
> of mormon and he commited to read the both of them. we taught him the
> first half of the plan of salvation and were able to answer a lot of
> his questions about pre-earth life, our purpose, and what happens
> after we die. everytime we meet with him he shows more and more desire
> to learn. he is golden and i am so excited to help him in his
> conversion. he is about 21 and works part time, but looking for a full
> time job so he doesnt have to work weekends. please pray for him! he
> was out of town this weekend, so we are going to call him today to
> schedule an appointment. :)
> Church yesterday was awesome. The ward is so cool! the people in
> it are great. the bishop really trusts us with anything which is so
> huge!!! we have a great ward mission leader, Nate Eaton who is the
> channel 8 news anchor. we call him channel 8 nate. he is legit. he's
> probably in his mid 20's and got married a year ago. he has a lot of
> enthusiasm towards missionary work and helps us out a ton. im really
> looking forward to working with him to further the work in this area.
> so there is a zoo in our area :) and a member in the ward owns it
> which means we get in for free!!! we are going there today so i will
> take pictures of me feeding the giraffes or something ahha. Im running
> into a bit of a problem though. this area we wear our suit coats
> everyday and i only have 2 pairs of pants that match my coats. my
> brown suit pants tore in the crotch, yes, im gaining weight!! i cant
> stand it. i run a mile in the morning and a mile at night but its not
> helping. i guess i need to bump it up, or lesson the chow. but, i'm
> going to need to purchase a couple pairs of black slacks to go with my
> black coat. we have every store imaginable here. theres a mall across
> the street with target, best buy, kohls, wal mart, many many
> resteraunts, and i think there is a tj maxx. could you transfer some
> money so i could buy a pair...like today? the suit pants im wearing
> now cant be thrown in the wash, theyre dry clean only and they stink!
> Sounds like you are going to get pretty busy with wedding plans!!!
> that is so crazy that you are planning for a wedding! I will get you a picture of me full length
this week sometime. i'll have elder cook take it. ill take multiple so you have some to choose from.
>
>
> love you all!!
> elder baldwin
>
>
> love you all!!
> elder baldwin
>
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