WEEELLLLL had my first full week in Texas! It was great. Texas is an interesting place. We had 105 and 55 degree weather... But we did get some rain so that was good!
Everyone is talking about the drought here and say in 2 years if there isn't much rain Wichita falls will turn into a ghost town...drama.
We had some rain this past week so that made everyone happy!
The ward here is awesome! We had a really good family history activity this past week. It is weird to have ward activities.
In Purcell, for the 7 and half months that I served there not once did we have a ward activity!
But in the next 2 months we have 3 planned!
We had our mission tour and Elder Foster came! It was really good. He expressed how often we set goals without having a vision…
or we set goals but the vision is different for everyone.
We counseled in our DM and found that our vision is our purpose and that one way to accomplish this vision would be to set up a ward mission plan!
So we should be getting that set up soon!
This area is really big and has a ton of work!
One of our investigators Monica who has a baptismal date for the 27th of September is awesome! Her husband is a less active member but he is returning to the gospel.
She shared with us yesterday how her example of her husband in returning to church has been a great testimony for her in the truthfulness of the church!
She said she kinda tested him the morning before church... she asked him,"Could we just read the scriptures for church today?" he said, "No" "Can we just go to the first hour?" He said, "No".
He probably didn't know that he was being tested but luckily he made the right choice!
It made me think of how we can be the influence to others eternal progression without even knowing it!
It is kinda scary, especially when we are bearing the name of Jesus Christ on our chests!
But I have seen how example plays a huge role in missionary work with investigators-less actives- recent converts!
Unfortunately being a bad example has an anti missionary effect! We waste so much time dealing with the problems people have with members it isn't even funny!
We also have a investigator, Gilbert, who had a baptismal date for the 27th but it was dropped yesterday because he didn't go to church... ehhh.
But he is solid, he has a huge desire to be baptized but he doesn't have a huge desire to go to church so we are going to work on that with him!
We visit this member, Mike, at the rest home every couple of days. He is awesome, he is in his 50s and half of his body is paralysed from a stroke!
He was a missionary and we have a fun time talking to him. No one else really talks to him. I guess his family is crazy!
We read a chapter from the book of Mormon every time we go because he can't read and doesn't like listening to the CDs.
It is easy to see how us coming to visit him is really affecting his life for the better!
Well that is a sampler of what happened this week! I hope that y'all have a great week! Stay classy!
Eli and Joel keep tearin it up! Bethany... same!
Elder Finlinson
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