> Buenos Dias!!!
>
>> We had a pretty good week. We were able to get a new investigator
> who is hilarious. his name is Darnell and he has investigated the
> church before. he texted us yesterday and told us that we need to help
> him get into BYU hahha. He really appreciates the "mormons" and what
> we do for each other. so we will see how the BYU thing goes. we are
> going to have to convince him to go to a JC first and then try to
> transfer in. Hopefully when we meet with him this week we can set him
> with a solid date for baptism. we set him for the first weekend in
> June and agreed to it, so now we just need to set an actual date for
> him to work towards. Another one of our investigators, Yuan, is
> probably going to get set this week for May 26th. He really wants to
> get baptized but also wants to learn english better first so he
> understands the doctrine. His first language is Chinese and we don't
> know anyone to translate for us. we teach him one principle at a time
> and it seems to be working out for him. he goes to church every week,
> goes to mutual, and plays basketball with us on tuesday nights and we
> are going to play tennis with him today. it should be fun!!!
> we have such a solid ward here. every week we have a member of the
> high priest group go out with us on exchanges. the bishop wants the
> members to get more involved in missionary work because the members
> have all of the solid referrals. we really have earned the trust of
> our bishopric and members here. on tuesday night we went out with the
> bishopric on splits and visited a few less active families. it went
> really well. i just love this ward! it feels like home here.
> This weekend was amazing!!!! We were visited by Elder Russell M
> Nelson, Elder Jay E. Jenson, and Elder Lansing (area 70). it was
> legit!! we all got to shake each of their hands before the meeting
> started which was pretty cool. They gave some pretty darn good
> training on how we can become more effective missionaries. Elder
> Nelson is a jokester.... At the close of his training, he left us with an
>
>> We had a pretty good week. We were able to get a new investigator
> who is hilarious. his name is Darnell and he has investigated the
> church before. he texted us yesterday and told us that we need to help
> him get into BYU hahha. He really appreciates the "mormons" and what
> we do for each other. so we will see how the BYU thing goes. we are
> going to have to convince him to go to a JC first and then try to
> transfer in. Hopefully when we meet with him this week we can set him
> with a solid date for baptism. we set him for the first weekend in
> June and agreed to it, so now we just need to set an actual date for
> him to work towards. Another one of our investigators, Yuan, is
> probably going to get set this week for May 26th. He really wants to
> get baptized but also wants to learn english better first so he
> understands the doctrine. His first language is Chinese and we don't
> know anyone to translate for us. we teach him one principle at a time
> and it seems to be working out for him. he goes to church every week,
> goes to mutual, and plays basketball with us on tuesday nights and we
> are going to play tennis with him today. it should be fun!!!
> we have such a solid ward here. every week we have a member of the
> high priest group go out with us on exchanges. the bishop wants the
> members to get more involved in missionary work because the members
> have all of the solid referrals. we really have earned the trust of
> our bishopric and members here. on tuesday night we went out with the
> bishopric on splits and visited a few less active families. it went
> really well. i just love this ward! it feels like home here.
> This weekend was amazing!!!! We were visited by Elder Russell M
> Nelson, Elder Jay E. Jenson, and Elder Lansing (area 70). it was
> legit!! we all got to shake each of their hands before the meeting
> started which was pretty cool. They gave some pretty darn good
> training on how we can become more effective missionaries. Elder
> Nelson is a jokester.... At the close of his training, he left us with an
apostolic blessing. in my
> next email ill have to write what he said in it. it was pretty
> amazing. i dont have my backpack with me right now or else id put it
> in this week. he did bless all of my family and friends though. that
> should give you some comfort being blessed by an apostle. :) i loved
> it! all 200+ missionaries were there in the chapel being edified and
> trained by general authorities.
> Elder cook goes home in like 3 weeks!! that is crazy! he is starting to get sad about it,
> next email ill have to write what he said in it. it was pretty
> amazing. i dont have my backpack with me right now or else id put it
> in this week. he did bless all of my family and friends though. that
> should give you some comfort being blessed by an apostle. :) i loved
> it! all 200+ missionaries were there in the chapel being edified and
> trained by general authorities.
> Elder cook goes home in like 3 weeks!! that is crazy! he is starting to get sad about it,
but still working hard! we are having a lot of success here. im learning
> so much from the people we talk to! people are definitely
> knowledgable here which means im studying my
> scriptures a heck of a lot more. i love the scriptures!! i finished
> reading the book of mormon last week and am starting it again. i think
> im going to have to read it like 50 more times to understand what all
> happens in it haha. theres so much to learn from it! Elder Cook is
> teaching me a lot too as we have lessons with investigators, and even
> on door approaches. we teach a lot of doctrine on doorsteps. Elder
> Nelson gave us a suggestion to use family search to our advantage and
> it works!! people get pretty interested in doing family history and
> our building has a family history library in it.
> I was able to get 2 pairs of pants! we go
> to walmart today to do more grocery shopping so i have to go now.
> so much from the people we talk to! people are definitely
> knowledgable here which means im studying my
> scriptures a heck of a lot more. i love the scriptures!! i finished
> reading the book of mormon last week and am starting it again. i think
> im going to have to read it like 50 more times to understand what all
> happens in it haha. theres so much to learn from it! Elder Cook is
> teaching me a lot too as we have lessons with investigators, and even
> on door approaches. we teach a lot of doctrine on doorsteps. Elder
> Nelson gave us a suggestion to use family search to our advantage and
> it works!! people get pretty interested in doing family history and
> our building has a family history library in it.
> I was able to get 2 pairs of pants! we go
> to walmart today to do more grocery shopping so i have to go now.
i hope you all have a wonderful week!
> take care and ill be skyping you on sunday for Mothers' Day!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i dont know
> what time yet, but when i do, ill have a member call you or something.
> we will figure it out. :) i love you and miss you!!! talk to you
> soon!!!
>
> love,
> elder Baldwin
> take care and ill be skyping you on sunday for Mothers' Day!!!!!!!!!!!!!! i dont know
> what time yet, but when i do, ill have a member call you or something.
> we will figure it out. :) i love you and miss you!!! talk to you
> soon!!!
>
> love,
> elder Baldwin
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