August 1, 2011

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Hey Mom,

This week has been a good week, a slow one but also a good one. From last week Elder Wise and my self were able to commit one more person to baptism this week. his name is Andrew Hickman. he is a 12 year old and we committed him to baptism for September 17. all is going well for him its been great to teach him and his family they are coming out of inactivity and they have the strongest testimony its amazing. Gabby is still doing great she is SO excited to be baptised we might move it up. she has the strongest testimony as well its so cool to see the change in her life as she accepts the gospel in her life. she gave us a written copy of her testimony that she typed up to give to her former pastor and it touched my heart it was great. Yesterday she let us know who is doing what at her baptism. Elder Wise will be doing the ordinance and i will be confirming her, we are both excited. Bob is still doing well. despite the awful gospel principals teacher that we have. we are having to reteach everything that is taught and bob is very patient with us and with the church. this week he is making some drastic changes in smoking he is really taking some big steps to quit, we are excited for him and will continue to pray for his success in quiting the smoking.
This week tracting we felt really inspired to tract a street right next to ours that we live on and we followed the spirit, while tracting i had my testimony confirmed by the spirit. we tracted in to a John Bair... He is now a potential investigator. hopefully we can help him understand the importance of the restoration. i know that heavanly father lead us to that street to visit john. i was soon reminded of my ancestor John Bair. and i pondered that for a long with and i came to the conclusion that all the Bair's needed the Celestial Kingdom even if we don't know them. it was a really neat experience.

Yesterday elder wise and i gave talks in sacrament, for the first time i was the concluding speaker. it was weird i felt like i knew what i was doing. i was asked to speak on a talk given be Elder L. Tom Perry "Bring Souls Unto Me" the talk itself was a rebuking talk so i followed the spirit and had a little fun with it. they both turned out good and the members were really receptive of it we received 2 referrals from it. it was nice.

I am grateful that Adam did a great talk, he will make an amazing missionary. he has that mentality of going to get something done.

All has been great its been great serving here in plainfield. i hope i don't get transferred again. transfers are next week and we will get a call on Monday letting us know. but i love you all.