>
> Sounds like you have quite the busy schedule coming up!! That sounds
> like a lot of fun! Kennady sounds like she is having an awesome time
> playing softball and it sounds like the team is doing pretty well
> also! What is Ian up to these days besides getting pumped up to go surf
> and hang out with all the cali kids? When does Kennady and Ian get out
> of school? it should be in a couple weeks right? I think schools out
> here are ending the first week of june or something...not too sure.
> Dang, the weather is already getting crazy in AZ? that is horrible!
> The weather here is the best, but i hear it wont be like this for too
> much longer. We got some rain yesterday that carried over to this
> morning. During the days the highest its been is probably 85 with a
> little humidity. not too bad though. I guess in the summer it will get
> up to 100 degrees with like 95% - 110% humidity haha. it will be
> crazy!!!!!! time to shed some weight :) i cant wait! we have been
> trying to exercise every night.
> That is crazy that you ran into the andreasens and the mcilhaneys!
> haha. next time i see elder mcilhaney i will be sure to take a picture
> with him! maybe ill see him at transfer meeting next week... i think
> he is serving in the waynseboro zone?? dont know for sure but i think
> thats where he is. Its crazy that we got sent to the same mission.
> people get confused though because i say im from california and then
> they find out that i played on the same baseball team as somebody from
> az, so i have to explain the whole situation....its funny watching
> people get confused about where im actually from. i still tell
> everyone that im from California though. One of the members in the
> manchester ward goes to Irvine every once-in-a-while for a business
> trip and i told him that the next time he goes, he should meet up with
> dad for lunch or something. He is a pretty cool guy, we play
> basketball with him and a bunch of other people in the ward on tuesday
> nights and saturday mornings.
> so this past week was a rough one for us. we didnt have too much
> going on so we did a bunch of service. it was pretty cool what we did.
> we picked a neighborhood to do service in and we went over to the
> midlothian elders house to borrow their lawn mower. we took it all
> apart to fit it in the trunk of our subaru and then went and borrowed
> a members weed wacker and had that sticking out of the window also
> with a rake. it looked pretty ho-dunk. haha so we went to the
> neighborhood, parked the car took the mower, wacker, and rake out and
> just walked down the street asking people if we could mow their lawn
> for them for free. we mowed about 4 lawns on one street. we have been
> having a hard time finding people to teach so we thought that would be
> a good way to get a good rep for ourselves so that people would be
> more likely to invite us in. we havent seen any potentials from it
> yet, but i feel some coming along the more we do it. we did that on
> friday and the mower and rake are still in our car and it smells
> horrible. i think we all get a little queezy everytime we get into the
> car because of all the gas fumes. haha its crazy what we will do to
> get some service done!
> I went on exchanges with the zone leaders this week! it was so
> much fun! they are in the singles ward and their area covers VCU.
> Elder Marriott (ZL) was a firefighter for Cal Fire so we had some fun
> conversations about that. we get along very well together. so on the
> exchanges we went to VCU and did a lemonade stand in the middle of the
> quad as a finding activity. I talked to some cool people! I talked to
> a Buddhist for about 20 minutes just talking about her religion and
> then ours, comparing and then i invited her to learn more and to read
> the book of mormon, but she wasnt interested. i also talked to a
> few otheres who accepted the invitation to read and learn more. so
> hopefully they can set up a time to meet with the ones i talked to. i
> think we placed about 10 books within an hour span. The campus was
> dead too because they are in their break before summer classes start
> tomorrow. i want to go back their during school time to find. that
> would be som much fun. i guess in the past they will hand out a full
> box of BoM's within a half hour. crazy! Finding on a college campus is
> a great experience! it was a lot easier for me to talk about the
> gospel there for some reason. it was like the one time i actually felt
> comfortable talking to people about religion. our other lesson was with
> Sounds like you have quite the busy schedule coming up!! That sounds
> like a lot of fun! Kennady sounds like she is having an awesome time
> playing softball and it sounds like the team is doing pretty well
> also! What is Ian up to these days besides getting pumped up to go surf
> and hang out with all the cali kids? When does Kennady and Ian get out
> of school? it should be in a couple weeks right? I think schools out
> here are ending the first week of june or something...not too sure.
> Dang, the weather is already getting crazy in AZ? that is horrible!
> The weather here is the best, but i hear it wont be like this for too
> much longer. We got some rain yesterday that carried over to this
> morning. During the days the highest its been is probably 85 with a
> little humidity. not too bad though. I guess in the summer it will get
> up to 100 degrees with like 95% - 110% humidity haha. it will be
> crazy!!!!!! time to shed some weight :) i cant wait! we have been
> trying to exercise every night.
> That is crazy that you ran into the andreasens and the mcilhaneys!
> haha. next time i see elder mcilhaney i will be sure to take a picture
> with him! maybe ill see him at transfer meeting next week... i think
> he is serving in the waynseboro zone?? dont know for sure but i think
> thats where he is. Its crazy that we got sent to the same mission.
> people get confused though because i say im from california and then
> they find out that i played on the same baseball team as somebody from
> az, so i have to explain the whole situation....its funny watching
> people get confused about where im actually from. i still tell
> everyone that im from California though. One of the members in the
> manchester ward goes to Irvine every once-in-a-while for a business
> trip and i told him that the next time he goes, he should meet up with
> dad for lunch or something. He is a pretty cool guy, we play
> basketball with him and a bunch of other people in the ward on tuesday
> nights and saturday mornings.
> so this past week was a rough one for us. we didnt have too much
> going on so we did a bunch of service. it was pretty cool what we did.
> we picked a neighborhood to do service in and we went over to the
> midlothian elders house to borrow their lawn mower. we took it all
> apart to fit it in the trunk of our subaru and then went and borrowed
> a members weed wacker and had that sticking out of the window also
> with a rake. it looked pretty ho-dunk. haha so we went to the
> neighborhood, parked the car took the mower, wacker, and rake out and
> just walked down the street asking people if we could mow their lawn
> for them for free. we mowed about 4 lawns on one street. we have been
> having a hard time finding people to teach so we thought that would be
> a good way to get a good rep for ourselves so that people would be
> more likely to invite us in. we havent seen any potentials from it
> yet, but i feel some coming along the more we do it. we did that on
> friday and the mower and rake are still in our car and it smells
> horrible. i think we all get a little queezy everytime we get into the
> car because of all the gas fumes. haha its crazy what we will do to
> get some service done!
> I went on exchanges with the zone leaders this week! it was so
> much fun! they are in the singles ward and their area covers VCU.
> Elder Marriott (ZL) was a firefighter for Cal Fire so we had some fun
> conversations about that. we get along very well together. so on the
> exchanges we went to VCU and did a lemonade stand in the middle of the
> quad as a finding activity. I talked to some cool people! I talked to
> a Buddhist for about 20 minutes just talking about her religion and
> then ours, comparing and then i invited her to learn more and to read
> the book of mormon, but she wasnt interested. i also talked to a
> few otheres who accepted the invitation to read and learn more. so
> hopefully they can set up a time to meet with the ones i talked to. i
> think we placed about 10 books within an hour span. The campus was
> dead too because they are in their break before summer classes start
> tomorrow. i want to go back their during school time to find. that
> would be som much fun. i guess in the past they will hand out a full
> box of BoM's within a half hour. crazy! Finding on a college campus is
> a great experience! it was a lot easier for me to talk about the
> gospel there for some reason. it was like the one time i actually felt
> comfortable talking to people about religion. our other lesson was with
a recent convert. we read
> chapter 19 with him out of Jesus the Christ and had a lesson on
> allegories and parables. my goal this week is to start reading it and
> chapter 19 with him out of Jesus the Christ and had a lesson on
> allegories and parables. my goal this week is to start reading it and
to not stop reading it until i
> have finished it. crazy! but im excited! it was so cool serving in
> downtown richmond for a day! we played soccer in a park with some
> former investigators, and biked some sweet trails along the james
> river for my workouts. haha it was like moountain biking, but in the
> pitch black and the only lights we had on our bikes were elder
> marriotts, who was infront of me, and elder Dotson, who was behind
> me... i got stuck without a light which made it very difficult to bike
> on the trails! it was a great exchange and i learned a lot!
> Our investigators are doing well. we are still searching for a
> chinese translator for Lina and Yuan. and our boy darnell still wants
> to go to BYU. i think we are going to show him the honor code. he is hilarious and
> isnt afraid to tell us about his past!!! :o keep them in your prayers!
> especially Yuan. he is so close to getting baptized, we just have to
> get his dads approval to set him with a date! This week looks a lot
> better. we have a lot of appointments already scheduled, and its elder
> cooks and elder powells last week before they leave so we have to make
> it a good one!!! i love you all and miss you. it
> was good hearing from you and i will be keeping my eyes open for a
> package!! :) love you!
> have finished it. crazy! but im excited! it was so cool serving in
> downtown richmond for a day! we played soccer in a park with some
> former investigators, and biked some sweet trails along the james
> river for my workouts. haha it was like moountain biking, but in the
> pitch black and the only lights we had on our bikes were elder
> marriotts, who was infront of me, and elder Dotson, who was behind
> me... i got stuck without a light which made it very difficult to bike
> on the trails! it was a great exchange and i learned a lot!
> Our investigators are doing well. we are still searching for a
> chinese translator for Lina and Yuan. and our boy darnell still wants
> to go to BYU. i think we are going to show him the honor code. he is hilarious and
> isnt afraid to tell us about his past!!! :o keep them in your prayers!
> especially Yuan. he is so close to getting baptized, we just have to
> get his dads approval to set him with a date! This week looks a lot
> better. we have a lot of appointments already scheduled, and its elder
> cooks and elder powells last week before they leave so we have to make
> it a good one!!! i love you all and miss you. it
> was good hearing from you and i will be keeping my eyes open for a
> package!! :) love you!
Elder Baldwin
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