Hello Family!
Well, it's been another great week in Burns Lake! A
lot of miracles have been happening, and it has been pretty crazy
because of transfers. It is a beautiful drive from Terrace to Burns Lake
with all of the fall colors. It made me think back to when I drove to
Burns Lake from there over 3 months ago at the end of Spring when
everything was SO green! It has been great to be here long enough to see
the seasons change. It is certainly beautiful up here. It is starting
to get chillier though! You need a sweater/suit jacket whenever you are
tracting outside now. Elder Epperson is always freezing, since he's been
on the Island for the past 4.5 months. I think that I have just gotten
used to the temperatures up here. I think I might be a little hot when I
have to come back to Utah in the middle of June in 2 years! And I am
pretty sure that just a few days ago I was doing missionary work right
outside of the same
building that Dad would have gone curling inside of.
You'll have
to let me know how helping with the zone conference goes! I went to the
Terrace zone conference after the district conference there, and I went
to the Prince George zone conference after I went to the Prince George
stake conference there. What was the conference like? Up here President
and Sister Tilleman usually provide a lot of inspiration and we all bear
our testimonies. It's pretty great! Before President Tilleman, the
mission used to baptize in the low 200s each year, but this year the
mission goal is to baptize at least 325, and we are probably going to
baptize even more! He is a great mission president. It sounds like all
is well back at home, though! It will be interesting to see who the new
Stake Presidency will be. Your trip sounds very exciting! I hope that
some day I can see some of those sights. I will certainly have to pray
for your safety, ha ha. And I am also excited
to get your postcards. I bet they will arrive faster than when you are
sending them from Utah. Elder Aldred is from England and he gets
packages sent from home in under a week! I heard that Utah State beat
the U in football. Is that true? That would be pretty crazy. And has Dad
heard of a patient named Victor Manwaring? He might be visiting soon
and he just moved from Burns Lake.
My new companion, Elder
Epperson, is fantastic! He is a very good teacher and testifier and I
think I will be able to learn a lot from him over the next couple weeks.
I am also learning a lot because I am the only one in the companionship
who knows any of the members, investigators, or where anything is, so I
have to really know what I'm talking about. It definitely has been a
great learning experience. Elder Epperson and I have many similar
interests in our previous lives. He is from Murray, and did cross
country and track in high school. He also wants to have a lot of
success in the area and wants to work hard, and so I am excited for the
next transfer! It makes me reflect on my time with Elder Neher. I
really had to learn charity for him because we had different
personalities and work ethics. Sometimes it was very stressful for me
because I really don't like contentious situations. The Lord really
blessed me with patience, and I grew to love him over the time that we
served together, and I am glad that it ended that way. (Elder Epperson
is quite worried that we are going to be mauled by a bear on Southside,
becaues a less active member we were visiting talked to us about recent
bear attacks on people who were fishing around here, we saw a bear when
we were driving on Southside, and I showed him the picture of the bear
in the house on the Reserve. It's pretty funny.)
Well, I am
beginning to feel like a legitimate missionary now! I have knocked on
every door in Burns Lake, and now I am beginning to knock on
them all for the second or in some cases even the third or fourth time.
It is amazing to see how many new investigators we are able to find
now, in of despite that. It is truly miraculous! I remember in my first
couple weeks in Burns Lake we might have found 2 or 3 investigators. Now
we are finding and teaching almost a new investigator every day. As a
result, we are setting more baptismal dates and getting more progressing
investigators and naturally we will see more baptisms down the road!
Vanessa Jack will be baptized in about a week and a half, and I am very
excited for that because she is such a golden investigator and it was
such a blessing to be able to teach her. When investigators who have
never been taught about the Holy Ghost begin to describe how they feel
in lessons, it is such a powerful witness that we truly are
representatives of Jesus Christ! I feel blessed to be here, and I am
happy to serve.
It was great to hear from you! I
hope that you all have a very great week!
Elder Blotter
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