July 18, 2011

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Hey Mom,

This week was a great week, we got a lot done. This week was pretty intense, we went on two exchanges this week. One of them we were in a threesome, it was fun but Three is just a crowd. All in all we had alot of success. The other exchange was with my zone leader,  Elder Nash. I love my zone leader he is from Pocatello, and I knew him before I came out, he is such a great missionary, he is a stud. Such a great example to me. We had some really sweet days. Tuesday evening we did some service for an elderly lady, that is a former investigator, it was really awesome. e helped her lay some outside tile under a porch swing. Once again my talents helped us.  She told us that we could come back and start teaching her again. It was sweet, we definitely saw some miracles with her and how she is in the process of being prepared for the gospel. We also did some service at a horse ranch for a lady that rehabilitates horses and also works with special kids. She is a firm supporter of the FFA.  Every year for national convention FFA members go and help her do chores and build barns and all this sweet stuff. She has grown to love the work ethic that I have and knowing that I was in FFA, she invited us to be group leaders this fall and I will organize this with all the surrounding missionaries. I am excited with this it is such a sweet way to introduce people to the church, and to get our church name out. All I have to do is talk to President Collins about it some time. I feel like he will let us. We had some sweet lessons, two with Bob and one with Mike and some with some recent converts and less active members. They were all spiritually fed and there in attendance. Bob is still doing great he is attending the addiction recovery class once a week and is still doing great he is still coming to church every week and is on fire. Mike, we had a really great lesson with Elder Nash, we talked about the importance of coming to church and to partake of the sacrament.  It was great, he actually came to church for the first time, it was great we had the quietest sacrament meeting I have ever been to, the spirit touched his heart... we also had a lesson with Gabby, it was great. She is so solid, she is 17 and wants to be baptized. We had a lesson with her at a members home. The family is the Simpson family, they are originally from Idaho.  He taught seminary at Highland and Pocatello, American Fall and Aberdeen. It was coo,l Sis Simpson is the sister to BIG JUDD, they make a mean hamburger. It was great Gabby is super prepared, she is talking it over with her parents this week to see if they will let her be baptised. So far so good with her. We finally got air conditioning in our apartment, oh its super nice. There is a lot of cold air now. Everything has been great. I received 2 wedding announcements this week. What the heck? Everyone is getting married? Oh well, it's still cool. Today I get to have dinner with my old companion Chase Crandall. It's going to be sweet I am excited.

All is well, things are going great, thanks for everything. I love you all tons.

July 11, 2011

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Hey Family,

 

This week was great. We were able to get a lot of stuff done,  even tho I had food poisoning, all went well. Plainfield is just amazing, the area itself is really awesome, it reminds me a lot of Arco.  With out the mountain's and such. We so a lot of work here. I was able to go on an exchange with my district leader this week. We saw some amazing miracles. Oh it was amazing. We started off the exchanges by doing some service hours at a old peoples home. We played cards with them and talked about the church the whole time.  It was truly amazing. We also had an opportunity to do some tracting on the exchange. We saw miracles while we were doing so. We tracted into a guy that was not to interested in the gospel and when we started to walk away, I noticed that the guy had 2 jeeps in his front yard. I felt prompted to just hold the door and to just start talking to this guy about jeeps and rock crawling and all that good stuff. As I did, this the guys prospective totally changed, he was more open and more willing to talk to us. As a result we were able to have a short lesson about the restoration, it was amazing. I was able to relate jeeping to the gospel and how we have to endure all things that God puts in our path and kinda like a train with boulders and trees. We definitely felt the spirit and we were able to help him in some way. It was amazing. Later that same night, we continued to do some tracting and we tracted into a guy that readily let us in and wanted to talk to us. At first he was really sincere and left the room to get some water. Some time later he came back and said that his friend would be joining us. Well. his friend arrived and just wanted to bash with us. I was ready to bash. Instead we just bore sincere testimony about the things that we knew to be true and it turned out to be a great lesson, even tho they tried to preach and convert us the spirit wasn't with them as they talked but was there when we spoke. It was just great, it straightened my testimony of the truthfulness of this gospel. This gospel has changed my life. I love it so much. I am very grateful for this time that I have to serve my Savior and my Heavenly Father. It's truly the best thing ever. As for my own area, it has been kinda slow, not too much has been happening. We were able to attend a "Why I believe" fire side last night in my last area with Bob Vaught. It was great for him to hear all the testimonies of all the recent converts in this state it touched him well. This week he has been struggling with his family, we have the strongest impression that his mom is not doing well. Last night after our companionship prayers, Elder Wise and I at the same time said to each other that we have to teach Bob the plan of salvation again and to put an emphasis on the part where we can do stuff for family that is passed on and also to explain that family's can be together for ever.
 A totally great experience that we had to have the spirit confirm that to the both of us at the same time. We also have an investigator Gabby, I have yet to meet her, she went to California on a trip and visited the San Diego temple and has been reading every day and praying every day she explained to us over the phone that she had goals to enter the temple and other great goals for her in this life. She is 17 and her mother is sceptical about her joining the church but she really wants to.  It will be something that will bless her life tho. All in all this week has been one of the best weeks that I have had and definitely one of the most spiritual  have been in my life. i love you all i am grateful that for all you letters. but please stop reminding me that I have already been out a year. Its gone by too fast.

Love you all

Got Mail? NO!

It has come to my attention, that we aren't writing enough snail mail letters to Jared.  Shoot,  that is sad that his mailbox is empty and he looks so sad and depressed.  So everyone start writing letters to Elder Bair 342 1/2 N. Center  Plainfield IN 46168.  And Yes, I will try very hard to take my own advice.

July 5th 2011

Wow. WHERES WALDO?

Everybody keeps asking me where I am at? COME ON! It's just another transfer, no big deal. Due to satisfy the desires of man. I am now serving in Plainfield Indiana. It is just south west of Indianapolis, I am still in the same stake so I should be able to go back to those baptisms. So don't feel too heart broken. I am Follow Up training a greenie:( its awesome.) My new companion is Elder Wise, from Bountiful Utah. He is great, kinda awkward but amazing, we get along so well. This week went well, we are working our butts off... literally, its so hot. But also with some missionary work. We have extended a baptismal date this week to a guy named Mike, he is super awesome. He has some serious issues tho, but nothing that can't be work out by the atoning blood of our Savior. We also have some sweet investigators that are super solid. First we have Mike,  then Bob. Bob is awesome, he is super solid also, he will be baptised some time soon. He does not quite have a date as of yet we just had a sweet lesson with him this morning. He wanted to learn about tithing, and so the windows of heaven were opened to his understanding. I love him he is awesome. We have an super awesome ward. They are so awesome and so willing to do missionary work. I love the fact that people in wards are missionary minded. There are still alot of move ins and outs in this ward also. You might hate this, but I tweaked my back again this morning. Oh well it won't hold us back. Forth of July is a Joke as a missionary. It was still our preparation day so that was cool. We didn't really do anything too exciting fireworks were set off by the city on Sunday? For some stupid reason why not on the holiday? Other than that we had dinner with the Brown family. They are awesome they just moved in from the white river ward... which is where my last disctict leader was so I was there alot. It was awesome to know some one in this ward. Oh and I got a call Sunday evening from a Matt Johnson... yeah the same Matt Johnson that lived in Plymouth, they are planning on moving to this ward. Exciting. Earlana Jones from Plymouth... kinda fell off the deep end has not been going to church or reading since the missionaries got pulled out of the area. But now they have two great missionaries that will get her baptised. I love this work so much. There are alot of great things going on. I love it. The Lord is really been blessing me lately. I am very grateful for all the prayers.

I love you all.