Sept. 20, 2010: Super Awesome!

Hello Mom,
This week was super amazing. Monday was a great day to start off a great week. So, after we did our laundry and email and all that stuff, we decided to go bowling with the other elders in our district... so that was super fun. Then Elder Crandall and I went tracting and it was super awesome. We tracted into a young man named Mike Phillups; he is 18 and barley legal to teach with out parental consent. We asked if we could share a message and he said yes, so we had a full on restoration lesson with him on his porch. By the time that we had finished, we had to go home for the night. The next afternoon, we decided to finish tracting Mike's street and we tracted into Jayson and Raene. They are a younger couple with two kids; they had just moved in from Florida. We asked if we could share a message and he said no, but his wife said yes. We kinda answered some questions that they had, and then taught them about tithing, the word of wisdom, the restoration, the Articles of Faith, and The Book of Mormon. After we taught them that, then we committed them to come to church next week and to quit smoking! Yeah, that was super awesome it was so cool how the Lord has been putting people in our paths like crazy.

The next day, (this would be Wednesday), we tracted into a lady named Vicky; she knew alot about the "Mormon" church. She has been following them on the TV and on the Internet, so we were able to teach her about the church and how it was restored to the earth by a prophet. So it was super awesome. She also said that she and her daughter had been looking for a Church, and we had just got there after she got done praying to find the real one. So awesome!

So Thursday and Friday nothing really special happened. But Saturday we tracted into a old guy named Jessy Burnes. He was cool. He was like, "Hey Jesus people, come and talk." So we went and had the restoration lesson with him. He was very understanding, but he won't read the Book of Mormon, but he said that he would have it read to him because he can't read. That was super awesome.

After that we were tracting in the "hood" and we tracted into a straight-up-gangster and talked to him for a while. He said that he wants to know were his mom went when she died, so I just busted out the trusty Plan of Salvation pamphlet. It was awesome. He definitely felt the Spirit as we talked to him. At this time, it was getting pretty close to time to go home for the night. As we were walking back to the apartment, we passed two old drunk guys that said we could share a message... if we played a game of horse shoes. So, you know me, I was not going to pass up that. So I can say that I played horse shoes with two drunks! I don't think they remember what we taught them, but it was fun.

Then Sunday at church, Elder Crandall and I both gave a blessing to a member. One was the lady I baptized, Corrina Roy. She had been super sick lately, so it was pretty cool to do that. The other was for a lady in the ward that was getting a divorce and Elder Crandall did that one. So it has been a super great week! I am finally getting to where I am getting lost in the work... it's awesome.

Love you all,
Elder Bair