Well
hello family!
So
I forgot to tell you that transfers are this week therefore we had p-day today!
So I am staying in Delaware! I am so excited! If I don't get emergency
transferred for any reason I will be in Delaware for 6 months by the end of the
transfer! But the exciting thing is elder Hayes and I are staying together but
we are picking up a new companion! So still I have not missed a transfer
meeting, and I will have had a new companion every transfer. This will make
companion number 11.
Well
this week was awesome! It was very, very cold the past Monday and Tuesday! Let
us just say with the wind chill it was about -20 to -40 degrees during the day!
It was awesome! President asked us to go out and find people that day. Now
first I thought President is crazy! Someone is going to die, or at least get
frost bite. But what I have learned on your mission is when you are asked to
jump you ask how high. President told us that there would be many people home
(that is because schools were out and many business were closed). So we went
out to hit the doors and what do you know it was the most successful two days
we have had for finding and just missionary work in general for a LONG time! We
found a new investigator each day! It was so much fun tracting at -30 degrees!
What I decided with that is I definitely know the church is true! If the church
was not true there is no way I would be knocking on doors in -35 degrees! The
sad thing was many missionaries complained and some did not do what president
ask. It is very sad actually. Many of them thought it was okay to just go from
member to member doing basically nothing concerning moving the work forward.
Many others had frankly pathetic and ridiculous excuse for not following what
we had been asked to do. And interestingly enough the one that did not go out
had very unsuccessful boring days.
Now
here is an update on Chelsea! So as most of you know we were blessed with
Chelsea's baptism it was an absolute miracle! Well she is doing absolutely amazing!
She is more happy then she has ever been! Cody asked us, "What is wrong
with my sister? She is actually happy!" It is amazing the physical,
spiritual and emotional change the gospel brings into our life. The gospel
truly does change lives!
Lately
I have been thinking a lot about goals. For new years I have set some goals.
All of them which I have 100% faithful in and then yesterday I failed miserably
but today I am back to 100%. I am done with soda (yes that means no more dr.
pepper), I am reading 10 pages of the Book of Mormon every day (I read 5 in the
morning and 5 at night before I go to bed. The goal is to read the Book
of Mormon 7 times this year), and lastly is to write in my journal
everyday!
Sorry
there is not much concerning investigators. Many of our investigators are
either baptized or just not progressing. So right now we are working on
increasing our teaching pool.
Well
I hope all of you are doing well and enjoying the global warming that is taken
place across the country!
Love,
Elder
Baird
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