They are doing an air show in St George now? I hope they keep it up so I can come see it when I’m home! We see lots of different airplanes and helicopters and tanks and such being in Barstow because Fort Irwin is just down the road and it’s pretty cool. It was nice this last week to get a little 2 day vacation! We had a 2 day Leadership meeting down in Rancho Cucamonga and since I’m all the way in Barstow, my roommate Elder C and I went down Wednesday night and stayed through Friday afternoon. The meeting on Thursday was from 8-5 and felt like forever but it was a really good meeting they just trained on things such as gaining member trust, the Doctrine of Christ, How to connect with people more effectively and the Book of Mormon. It was extremely good! After that was over I was companioned with Elder H and his new Companion Elder N back in C Ward again!! It was good to be back but all we had time to do was go to dinner and then the appointments after that fell through. It was so great to be with my favorite companion again though. Even with that meeting our districts numbers jumped a whole lot and it made me super happy as a district leader! This week might not be AS good but will still hopefully be good!
Saturday was such a great day! We had the baptism of S and A B!! The girls we have been teaching! There was a really good turnout and they had so much support it was awesome! I baptized A and Elder H baptized S. I super super love that family so much they are really great people. After the baptism we went out to H to a less active members house and visited with them for a while and had a good time with them. After that we had dinner at the R family’s home and they had a new dog that was about a week and a half old. It was a girl and they named it Toby? I didn’t approve so I named it Gertrude and the dad thought it was funny so supposedly it stuck! haha I named their dog!!
Sunday was a pretty good day also. We set a baptismal date for June 12th with our investigator M. It’s far away because he has some things to work through but it’s going to happen. I also realized while I was sitting in Church that I could name ALMOST every person that was in sacrament meeting. It made me feel pretty good! That night our dinner didn’t work out and Elder H and C were going to a different dinner. Luckily a less active family we were going to see said we could eat with them! It’s the same one we see every week but this week I took Elder U and we played air hockey with the kids and I taught a couple of them some chords on the guitar and then we went and talked with the mom who is the less active member and her aunt who was pretty tipsy but was being really really funny! We had a good long talk with them and hopefully we will see the mom at church this week! It was definitely a pretty good week and I’m really happy that this is the last week of the transfer!!!!! FINALLY! From what I’ve been hearing is that I’ll be staying in Barstow a few more which is okay with me! Also we found out that M. Russell Ballard is coming to talk to the mission on April 21st! Just a few more weeks! I’ll let you all know how it goes afterwards!!
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