Hello beautiful family!
So this week was another great week,
full of transfers, Thanksgiving, and working towards goals.
So this week was transfers and I got a
new companion! Luckily I am still in Delaware which is great! I absolutely love
Delaware! So my new companion is Elder Hayes. He is from Florida and he is
pretty cool. He was actually in our Zone the past few transfers so he did not
move to far. So we are having lots of fun!
So Thanksgiving was lots of fun! We went
and ate at some members named the Fowlers. They invited 2 other families in the
ward and also Brother Fowlers boss. It was lots of fun and really good! Thanksgiving
is a great holiday except when it comes to missionary work! No one wants to
talk to us. Oh well I guess we will get them next time!
So another exciting thing is about the
Amish. So on Saturday was a big OSU game therefore missionary work died again
for about 4 hours. Well a member invited us over because he was having some
Amish friends over. Well they are really shy and kept to themselves. But the
member told us that he had talked to them many times about the Book of Mormon.
Well I gave them a Book of Mormon and they accepted it. I can now say I gave a
Book of Mormon to an Amish family! Hopefully they get baptized!
Well as a mission we have a year goal.
That year goal is 500+ baptisms! We know we can do it. Last year they hit 500
baptism and we have split in half since then and we are at 445 so far this
year! We can totally do it but to make sure we fasted as a zone on Sunday for
investigators that could be baptized by the end of the year. Well miracles were
happening all over the Zone. One area put an investigator on date for baptism,
a part member family that is interested just moved into our ward, another part
member family in an area became interested, and many other miracles. But the
miracle happened to us so far because of the fast was from a member. So one of
our investigators is really close to baptism but she can not pay tithing (or so
she says). Well we have been trying to help her know that she will be blessed
from tithing. It is been full of stories about people we know from back home or
stories we have heard. Well this morning we got a call from one of my favorite
members Sister McClister (we planned the baptism for her daughter who was deaf
and hit by the car) Well she called us and said that yesterday she paid her
tithing. She said when doing the math multiple times with bills and all they
were -60 in their bank account. Well she went to the bank today and the teller
said that she had 30 dollars in her bank account. She made the teller do it
again to make sure. But miraculously there was an extra 30 dollars for
Christmas and Birthdays this month. Tithing really does work! So we are going
to take Sister McClister over to a lesson so she can share her personal
experience! Then hopefully our investigator can get baptized in December! Also
please pray for the mission that we can obtain our goal of 500 baptisms!!
Well I love you and hope that all is
well!
Love,
Elder Baird
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