> Good Day!!
> I love Manchester! I want to serve here the rest of my mission no joke
> haha. This place is pretty awesome. We got 3 new investigators this
> week. the Armstrongs, and Alex. The armstrongs were tracted into a few
> weeks ago and were given a book of mormon to read. We decided to stop
> by yesterday to see how they were doing and to follow up on their
> reading. We had a long discussion just about religion and we cleared
> up some beliefs of ours. I also shared my favorite verse with them,
> Ether 12:27 and they immediately recognized it from their reading. it
> was awesome. at the end of our visit we invited them to continue to
> read and pray, and Mr. Armstrong asked if we could pray about it right
> then. It kind of caught me by surprise!! We all stood up, joined hands
> and Mr. Armstrong gave an excellent prayer asking for an answer if the
> book is true. In the prayer he even said that they were confident it
> was, but they wanted a true answer. It was an experience to die for as
> a missionary. He asked if we could come back again sometime so we set
> up to go have a lesson with them next sunday.
> Alex has been an investigator that was dropped. we were finally able to
> I love Manchester! I want to serve here the rest of my mission no joke
> haha. This place is pretty awesome. We got 3 new investigators this
> week. the Armstrongs, and Alex. The armstrongs were tracted into a few
> weeks ago and were given a book of mormon to read. We decided to stop
> by yesterday to see how they were doing and to follow up on their
> reading. We had a long discussion just about religion and we cleared
> up some beliefs of ours. I also shared my favorite verse with them,
> Ether 12:27 and they immediately recognized it from their reading. it
> was awesome. at the end of our visit we invited them to continue to
> read and pray, and Mr. Armstrong asked if we could pray about it right
> then. It kind of caught me by surprise!! We all stood up, joined hands
> and Mr. Armstrong gave an excellent prayer asking for an answer if the
> book is true. In the prayer he even said that they were confident it
> was, but they wanted a true answer. It was an experience to die for as
> a missionary. He asked if we could come back again sometime so we set
> up to go have a lesson with them next sunday.
> Alex has been an investigator that was dropped. we were finally able to
meet with him again, and
> committed to meet with us again and to come to church. he is going
> through some rough times in his life and really needs the gospel. i
> told him that the gospel will change his life around and promised him
> some specific blessings. He appreciated it and got his desire back to
> learn more. he came to church with us this week and stayed for the
> whole 3 hours including our linger longer Super Spud Sunday
> Spectacular Supper, that was definitely in the wrong order, but you
> get the point. The ward put together this linger longer to invite
> friends to. we had a pretty good turnout and i was able to introduce
> myself to a lot of the members in the ward. After the Linger Longer,
> Bishop Sorensons daughter was baptized and another investigator of
> ours, Yuan was able to stay and watch that. I really think he is going
> to be baptized soon.
> So we went to the zoo last pday. it was so fun. i got to feed
> giraffes! it was so cool! Ill send you pictures in this email. i dont
> know what we are going to do today. probably just go do some grocery
> shopping and then sleep. I am wiped out. the past couple of nights ive
> been gettting up at 3 and staying awake for an hour- an hour and a
> half. i dont know why im doing it but its getting frustrating. Other than the
> committed to meet with us again and to come to church. he is going
> through some rough times in his life and really needs the gospel. i
> told him that the gospel will change his life around and promised him
> some specific blessings. He appreciated it and got his desire back to
> learn more. he came to church with us this week and stayed for the
> whole 3 hours including our linger longer Super Spud Sunday
> Spectacular Supper, that was definitely in the wrong order, but you
> get the point. The ward put together this linger longer to invite
> friends to. we had a pretty good turnout and i was able to introduce
> myself to a lot of the members in the ward. After the Linger Longer,
> Bishop Sorensons daughter was baptized and another investigator of
> ours, Yuan was able to stay and watch that. I really think he is going
> to be baptized soon.
> So we went to the zoo last pday. it was so fun. i got to feed
> giraffes! it was so cool! Ill send you pictures in this email. i dont
> know what we are going to do today. probably just go do some grocery
> shopping and then sleep. I am wiped out. the past couple of nights ive
> been gettting up at 3 and staying awake for an hour- an hour and a
> half. i dont know why im doing it but its getting frustrating. Other than the
sleeping issue, I'm feeling great.
> This past weeks personal goal was to pick one verse from a gospel
> principle to study and teach about during companionship study. I was
> having a hard time remembering scriptures during lessons so i thought
> that doing this during my study would help. I really enjoy digging
> into the scriptures, and Elder Cook helps out a lot. He is a
> scriptorian. i really enjoy serving with him. Elder Powell, i learned a couple nights
> ago flew to Georgia for a national Rubiks Cube competition. i
> guess hes on the Rubiks cube association for his solving time or
> something.
> Im still in a car and will be my whole mission i think. I try to workout
> every night, that helps me sleep. That is good that everyone is doing well in school!
> Ian got bumped up to Var? thats pretty sweet! let me know if he stays
> up for playoffs. and kennady is doing well in softball? that is so
> good! keep up the good work!
> ill have to take a picture of me for addys wedding. ill hopefully
> get it to you next monday. June sent me a package last week! had a 4lb
> tub of twizzlers in it :) haha. along with 4 packs of black socks! it
> was perfect!!!! it was like christmas! i needed black socks so bad! i
> need her address though so i can write her a thank you note. send it
> to me next week! my time is up, so i have to go! take care and have an
> amazing week!
> love,
> Elder Baldwin
>
> This past weeks personal goal was to pick one verse from a gospel
> principle to study and teach about during companionship study. I was
> having a hard time remembering scriptures during lessons so i thought
> that doing this during my study would help. I really enjoy digging
> into the scriptures, and Elder Cook helps out a lot. He is a
> scriptorian. i really enjoy serving with him. Elder Powell, i learned a couple nights
> ago flew to Georgia for a national Rubiks Cube competition. i
> guess hes on the Rubiks cube association for his solving time or
> something.
> Im still in a car and will be my whole mission i think. I try to workout
> every night, that helps me sleep. That is good that everyone is doing well in school!
> Ian got bumped up to Var? thats pretty sweet! let me know if he stays
> up for playoffs. and kennady is doing well in softball? that is so
> good! keep up the good work!
> ill have to take a picture of me for addys wedding. ill hopefully
> get it to you next monday. June sent me a package last week! had a 4lb
> tub of twizzlers in it :) haha. along with 4 packs of black socks! it
> was perfect!!!! it was like christmas! i needed black socks so bad! i
> need her address though so i can write her a thank you note. send it
> to me next week! my time is up, so i have to go! take care and have an
> amazing week!
> love,
> Elder Baldwin
>
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