January 17, 2011
dear family
yes i got the socks they work. very interesting. i am still trying to figure out what ones work the best and all that so if you could hold on another week so i can have it down to a science and really know that would be great (supposedly if you wear silk socks under your regular socks, it keeps your feet warmer) Also, if you could send a vial and maybe some oil. i forgot all that stuff back home and it only took me 5 months to figure out that I didnt have anything. silly me. we are still good on treats and food from christmas. elder kaota left all his stuff and elder miller brought all of his treats so there is still a lot.
yes we got the family started. (April and Eddie got married!) it was a nice little turn out. i took lots of pictures. but my camera is not the best so only a few can you tell who are in them. (I'm going to buy him a new camera, all his pictures stink!) we had a few members and one relative from april's family. all and all about 15 people.
yes i figured out who presidents sister is. she lives down there. (the couple he lives with have relatives here in Marana, and Rhett can't remember their names, really?)for the life of me i cant remember what her married name is but she is a paynter though. ooo and that is way cool about elder waller and elder lewis. (These 2 Elders are Wiltbank relatives, grandsons to Aunt Afton) elder waller actual called us and told me this last weekend said we were related and the cool thing about elder lewis is that elder kinikini trained him as well. so we are cousins and also brothers. another interesting thing about that is that a member came up to me and said elder baker you have some relatives in mesa right? i said yes the haws' fam. and he went on to say well you have some other family there and you have quite a bit of family up here in the same mission... weird that a member knew me from a different ward but that was cool that he shared that info with me yesterday. (MORE INFO PLEASE)
words of wisdom of about a talk on families. i never really knew what people meant by families being the foundation of everything and that satan doesnt want families at all. look at the world today. people get divorced, and sleep around and even gays. satan hates families because they help us out so much. families really are ordained of god. i didnt really know what that meant until i got out here and really saw how true that was.
so recap on the week. a little bit different week. but it was a good week we were able to go and teach cindy. but that looks like not very good at all. she is telling us that God is telling her that she needs to stay with her church. satan is so good at what he does he won on that battle. she even came to church and then she felt the same way...
yes i got the socks they work. very interesting. i am still trying to figure out what ones work the best and all that so if you could hold on another week so i can have it down to a science and really know that would be great (supposedly if you wear silk socks under your regular socks, it keeps your feet warmer) Also, if you could send a vial and maybe some oil. i forgot all that stuff back home and it only took me 5 months to figure out that I didnt have anything. silly me. we are still good on treats and food from christmas. elder kaota left all his stuff and elder miller brought all of his treats so there is still a lot.
yes we got the family started. (April and Eddie got married!) it was a nice little turn out. i took lots of pictures. but my camera is not the best so only a few can you tell who are in them. (I'm going to buy him a new camera, all his pictures stink!) we had a few members and one relative from april's family. all and all about 15 people.
yes i figured out who presidents sister is. she lives down there. (the couple he lives with have relatives here in Marana, and Rhett can't remember their names, really?)for the life of me i cant remember what her married name is but she is a paynter though. ooo and that is way cool about elder waller and elder lewis. (These 2 Elders are Wiltbank relatives, grandsons to Aunt Afton) elder waller actual called us and told me this last weekend said we were related and the cool thing about elder lewis is that elder kinikini trained him as well. so we are cousins and also brothers. another interesting thing about that is that a member came up to me and said elder baker you have some relatives in mesa right? i said yes the haws' fam. and he went on to say well you have some other family there and you have quite a bit of family up here in the same mission... weird that a member knew me from a different ward but that was cool that he shared that info with me yesterday. (MORE INFO PLEASE)
words of wisdom of about a talk on families. i never really knew what people meant by families being the foundation of everything and that satan doesnt want families at all. look at the world today. people get divorced, and sleep around and even gays. satan hates families because they help us out so much. families really are ordained of god. i didnt really know what that meant until i got out here and really saw how true that was.
so recap on the week. a little bit different week. but it was a good week we were able to go and teach cindy. but that looks like not very good at all. she is telling us that God is telling her that she needs to stay with her church. satan is so good at what he does he won on that battle. she even came to church and then she felt the same way...
Samuel is still lost. he was so golden but now no one knows where he is. not even his family. so no good there at all. raginia umm she is still so golden and wants to be baptized but is scared because she has this vision that she has to be perfect after baptism. trying to share with her that as long as we are human we cannot be perfect. the only one that was able to do that is Jesus; he was part immortal and had the seed of God. so he was able to, but none the less we should put forth our most effort to be like Christ. we weren’t able to set a date for baptism but hopefully we will be able to soon. Mark, goodness that boy, he is really starting to understand the gospel and baptism. good news there. we were able to go to the church as a less active joint teacher. normally not the best idea but it worked out so well. mark and the jt where able to relate and the sprit was really strong. doing reactivation and investigating is the best... sometimes!
another interesting thing that happened was we were doing some street contacting and we were talking with this lady and she was like come to my home. so we set up a day to go and share a brief message and than we would have another investigator... turns out she is a less active. that was supper weird and confused us so much.
this week i got some sort of weird infection in my eyes. the doctor put me on some drops and said i should be good in about a week to two. he said not to wear contacts at all till then. it’s amazing to think that when i first got contacts i thought i looked weird. and now its all turned around! it’s funny how life works.
on Wednesday we get to have a zone conference. i am looking forward to that! president always gives great trainings. and speaking of that last night we were able to go to the president’s fire side for recent converts and investigators. we took Eddie. he is doing so well. it just amazes me how the spirit can change some body. he went from not knowing too much, to having a testimony about Christ and now he understands and we are able to have a spiritual conversation . . . so good, so good! and sorry i dont have any pictures this week, i left all my stuff in bro hyatt's van... whoooops :)
some other great news is that next week we are finally going to the temple! so next week i wont be emailing on monday i will be emailing on... maybe Wednesday or whatever day we go.
well i love you hope its a good week
love elder baker
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