November 8, 2010

Hey Mom,
    Everything is going great. It has been super duper cold and we finally have snow.  I will be honest, I did not come prepared.  It is so crazy bitter cold.  It blows my mind at how cold it is here.  Needless to say, it's been great.  We have been trying to reactivate alot of the less active that are in the ward.  It has been going well.  We are able to drop spirit bombs on them as lessons.  They are able to feel the spirit and are able to invite the spirit into lessons. It has been really good for them.  We actually have had one of them come back to church yesterday, it was great to see them.  Our investigators are still going good, they are not really progressing but we are doing everything that we possibly can in order for them to be able to feel the spirit enough for them to testify that they need to be active again.
     The house that I am working on is going good.  I got out of doing the whole house and I am just doing little things here and there that will not keep us from doing missionary work.  So far I am in the middle of redoing the tile in her bathroom.  It looks great.  I love doing tile and stuff like that.
     We have been riding our bikes alot lately in order for us to be able to drive the car to Zone Conference tomorrow.  This past week my bike has been super sunny so last night  I took it apart to look to see if I can fix it by myself.  I found the problem, and it is an expensive fix, the back axle was put together wrong by the assistants when they put my bike together.  It made the bearings and axle wear out and I ended up losing my bearings out of it.  This morning I took it to the bike shop that sells Trek bikes and they will be able to fix it but it is going to be a pretty penny of $85.  I was so stinking mad!
     Thursday we had a conference with President Collins, our Stake President and all of the ward members in leadership positions.  Pres. basically told them that they are not doing their part and that the missionaries are doing everything.  He had us stand and state our purpose as missionaries is to invite others, not to find them. It was great to hear two different Presidents rebuke them and tell them that they need to actually go and do something.  Hopefully their eyes will be opened to this and they will not be so lazy.  There was also a really good quote that one of them said and it stood out to me.  "The Lord Controls the Harvest".  It made me think, no matter how hard we as missionaries try to teach people, if the Lord has not prepared them, they are going nowhere.  I really thought that would make a great missionary picture also.  Two missionaries in the middle of a field teaching a farmer who is fixing his harvester.  Oh yeah!  That would make a sweet picture.
     Yesterday, on making the good-bye rounds for Elder Crandall, we stopped by a members house and he had just shot a deer and was cutting and bagging it.  I helped him do that as Elder Crandall was saying his good byes and in the end they guy gave me a bunch of deer meat.  I was so super excited even tho I was not able to shoot one, I am still able to eat one.
All is going well,  I love you tons
Elder Bair