Flight Plan Arrives

I am a little slow on this, but a few weeks ago when I woke up in the morning, my husband handed me  a few papers.  I looked down to see that they were Jared's  travel itinerary for his flight home.  Talk about massive adrenaline rush!  He will fly into the Pocatello Airport at 11:50 am on July 10.  Two months and two weeks?  So close and so exciting.

April 30, 2012

Hey Family!

Things are slowing down for us a bit this week. Purdue is having finals this week so every one that we are teaching that is going to Purdue are graduate students, and are slammed with studies. So unfortunate it hasn't been very busy this week. It really effects us when stuff happens at Purdue. But all is well even tho we didn't teach to many lesson we did however do alot of service. That is always a nice change and is quite refreshing to be able to do some service every once and a while. We did alot of yard work, I also did some sheet rocking, some gardening, rebuilt some lawnmowers. So all in all it was a pretty good week for some service. We also moved 2 families this week. One nonmember and one member family. It was pretty cool, the non member family is from Mountain Home.  They are here because he grew up here and they are both going to Purdue. So it was really fun to be with some good ole Idaho folk. Even tho most of the ward here are Idahoans. This week I had an unfortunate event happen that was kinda heartbreaking. As a district leader I get the privilege to interview candidates for baptism from the members of the district. Our wonderful sisters have been working with an older gentleman that had a baptismal date for this weekend. At the interview this fellow and I were talking and I was getting to know him. He is amazing. He use to be a truck driver for a potato farm in Burley way back in the day. It was pretty cool. But as I interviewed him  it became very clear that he was not living the word of wisdom and had strait up lied to the sisters about not drinking  coffee. To me discomfort I could not let him undertake that covenant of baptism. It was heart wrenching to see him confess to the sisters that he had not been living the word of wisdom and that he could not be baptised. This week my testimony has grown immensely of the spiritual gift of discernment. I have also gained a greater testimony of the book of Mormon and the spiritual guidance that it has provided for not only me, but also for my companion. We have been having like a family scripture study as a companionship. It has been absolutely amazing. The spirit has been super duper strong as we read the words of Christ and to talk about how they apply to them in their individual life. I hope and pray that everyone takes a little bit more effort this week in feasting upon the words of Christ. I love you all and hope that you have a great week!

April 23, 2012

hey Family,
Things are going well for us this week.  Its been actually fantastic. We were able to teach a lot of lessons for us. We got to find some new investigators. One is from Tennessee and has a super thick accent and would need a chain saw to cut through. It has been amazing. So much has happened this week. Its great. I kinda don't know what to say this week. It just has been super duper amazing. Our investigators are doing super amazing. I don't know I am just kinda speechless today. All is well and things are going great for us. Except for that little skunk! He is still in our back yard. I messed up my back again this week lifting a piano helping a family move, but all is well the Lord is blessing us for our efforts. We are still on track with our people who will be baptized this month and we are super excited for them. All in all it just has been a very spirit filled week and all has been amazing. I love you all I hope that you have a great week.!!!!!

April 16, 2012

Hey Family,

Things are going well for us. We got the transfer call this morning... and neither of us are getting transferred. Things are going to stay the same for at least one more transfer. Things have been well for us. we had a pretty good and eventful week and really got a lot accomplished. The real highlight of the week was that Elder Paul P. Pieper from the seventy came out and attended our stake conference. It was really good. He talked about a lot of different things and nothing in particular. But the spirit was super strong and was able to touch the hearts of those that were in attendance. We had a full week, we were able to teach a bunch of our investigators and were able to add 2 new investigators to our teaching pool. Also a cool side note, Elder Bair is immune to poisen ivy!!! But the weather this week has been all crazy, no tornados tho, it has rained and blows all day and is not able to break about 60 all week.  I got THE call from the mission office this week about flight plans.... that was totally unexpected, I told them that I would like to fly into Pocatello, so other than that I havent heard anything else. We still have some really solid investigators and still have one investigator on a baptismal date for may 26 they are super awesome. Things here are going well. I suppose that I dont really have to much to say, we are still doing the same thing day to day. I love you all I hope that you all have a great week.

 

Elder Bair

www.mormon.org/me/480j/
Proverbs 25:25
As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country.

April 9, 2012

Hey family,

Things have been pretty well this week. we were able to have interviews with our mission president. It was pretty great. I was also able to get a new temple recommend at the same time that expires in October. so no worries there. So this week we were able to set another baptismal date for May 26 with a really sweet investigator. He is super prepared and solid in his testimony of the restored gospel. His wife is slowly coming back to church as well and they are both excited as well. Nothing to exciting happened this week, we were out 2 days because i got food poisoning again so that was no fun. this yeah Easter was great our sacrament meeting was especially good the primary took over the meeting, it was especially good to hear from all the children in the ward and hear of their solid testimonies of the resurrected savior Jesus Christ. The spirit was really strong throughout the whole meeting and was present for us the rest of the day. We were able to attend a why i believe fireside as well last night to finish our Easter Sunday off. while there a recent convert talked about her conversion story and about all the things that went on during her conversion process. A particular story that she told was a testimony builder for me to know that Gods hand is in everything. After accepting the commitment to live the word of wisdom she was struggling with her coffee in the morning, a particular morning a shipment of real expensive coffee came in the mail and she opened and and smelled it and got ready to roast a cup, when the pot was brewing she went to get ready for the day and came back to the coffee spilled all over her kitchen. she started to examine to see what happened and realized that her coffee pot had just "Exploded" with out reason. she lives by her self as a single lady and she has lived the word of wisdom from that day. It is truly amazing to see what happens to Gods so loved children when they come in contact with the truth of the restored gospel on the earth. and how he provides a way for them to come to the fold. I am glad to hear of the great holiday back home. i love you all and hope for a great week for you all.
 

 

Elder Bair

www.Mormon.org/me/480j/
Proverbs 25:25
As cold waters to a thirsty soul, so is good news from a far country.

April 2, 2012

Hey Family,
This week was a great week!! most of all because it was conference!! It was super good to hear the great council from our beloved prophet. It is truly a great experience to hear the works that have been inspired to a prophet directly from God him self. Unfortunately, the sad part of conference was that all that talks seemed to be directed to me not as a missionary,but rather as a father and husband?? It to be honestly kinda scared me, but i guess i will have to grow up some time or another. Its been a great week we have been teaching some amazing people and are getting some progress as we teach them. Due to investigator rights i cant tell names but i will tell you about them a little bit. So (Don) has been investigating for multiple years, for the reason of probation and other stuff. he is a super cool guy and has changed a lot from his old way. but we teach don on a regular basis and he is doing really well. This week when we went over to the lesson we had quite a scare, we were watching a movie ( Joseph Smith Prophet of the Restoration), there was a knock on the door and it was his probation officer! well he has to do a breath test randomly every so often. well he blew over the limit that his probation allows him to have. my poor companion was scared to death. i said a little prayer and asked heavenly father that everything would be fine. so after about 20 minutes with multiple probation officers he was released and was allowed to continue with every day stuff. We finished the movie and after he realized that he HAS to stop living the way that. we agreed and he is making the necessary steps to help him. I am very great full for the blessing that God has put in his path to shake him up enough to make him want to change. We are also teaching a couple that are absolutely amazing! we have come to love them a lot! especially me because they are big time dirt bike people, but this week we taught him about the plan of salvation and how god has allowed us as his children to return to him.he was totally blown away and had some super amazing questions and I just love questions! but he and his wife watched general conference and when President Monson talked in the Sunday morning session he talked about the Plan of Salvation, and he totally ate it up, when we followed up with him he said that he just felt great when he spoke because it was things that we had talked about that week when we had met with him. He is going to make a great member when he actually joins! This week just has truly been a fantastic week and everything is going well. I am glad to hear that the family is going well and the new baby was introduced to world safely and that we are able to welcome her in to the family. She is truly a blessing to us. I am very great full to be serving the lord and the chance that i have that we may bring souls unto Christ! I am sad that it has to end some time! it really hit me i looked at my temple recommend today and it expired at the end of this month... For every thing there is a time and a season... I love you all I hope that you have a great week!