The Work Rolls On!

The Work Rolls On!

So I am sure that most of you know about the special world wide broadcast we had for missionary work. Well if you didn't watch it you should because it was great. Anyway it talked a lot about the work and how  the work is going to be evolving here in the next year or so. Its too bad that I will be missing a lot of the changes but that is ok.

So we had 2 new investigators show up to church yesterday, both of them were member referrals. It was so cool, one was from the Gilsons. Their land lord's daughter is a member so she wanted to see what we were all about. Her name is Mary, we will try and work with her in a bit but I think she really enjoyed church. We also had the Estradas bring a friend from work to church and he participated in class. I hope he had a good time, we are having dinner with them on Wednesday so that will be good to get some insight into josh. Mark came to church alone this time and we got him to say the closing prayer for gospel principles and he did a great job. So we finally had a lesson with Mark and his family, Mark was put off from the church because of the things he heard about our church from the history channel. After a while we were able to show him he has heard all about the church from every one but members of the church. That opened his eyes. Both him and one of his daughters agreed to take lessons so that is good to hear.

So Duk.... Duk was supposed to be baptized this Saturday we have hit some bumps. His girl friend is back in the picture. The first time we showed up with her there she came to the door and handed us every piece of church materials we ever gave him. We are kind of the reason she got kicked out of the house so we thought she was just trying to scare us off. She seemed a little to happy to hand us the books. The next time we came over duk came to the door and told us he can't join because he doesn't believe in the spirit world because it contradicts the bible. The last time this happened it was because he couldn't quit smoking. We are pretty sure he is just looking for an easy escape and with the drama of having his GF back in the house he just wants a break. She is getting out of the house on the 3rd so hopefully we will be able to address his concerns then. He doesn't want us in the house right now because his GF just hates us.

The Shaffers are doing just great, didn't come to church yesterday because Tabitha has a bad ear infection that caused her to go to the ER Saturday morning at 4. So we pray she gets better. 

Well this letter is pretty long so I will end it here. Thanks for your love and prayers. stay classy!

Sorry it has been a little bit since I wrote, just had a lot of letters to get to last week. So this week we had a pretty exceptional week for sacrament meeting attendance. We had 9 investigators show up to church. 6 of them were ours and 3 of them were the sister's investigators. Yeah things are pretty good out here. So a quick account on all the investigators, first off we have Sister Hoddnett. The Hoddnett family is a part member family. The dad was baptized in Utah and Sister Hoddnett was not baptized out there. She just has a lot of questions that most other people couldn't give her answers that satisfied her but she said she was willing to go through he lessons again. She likes to go pretty quick and deep so I can see how most other people would have a hard time teaching her because it can be hard to keep up with the fast paced lessons. In two lessons that each took about an hour and a half each we finally were able to get through the plan of salvation and she loved it. She is very receptive to spirits and all that stuff so talking about the spirit world was great for her, and being able to do work for the dead made her so happy. She said she could always feel so much strong spirits around the temples and now she knows why.

We also have the Shaffers, they are doing great as usual. On Sunday we had a lesson about ghosts, because they asked about it and, why not? They are getting so close to baptism, it is so cool to work with them.

Duk is being a Duck. We have not been able to see him at all this week so we are not to sure how he is doing, but he is scheduled for baptism on the 29th, we hope we can get that to work out still. But last we checked he is free from smoking.

We also have the Jamison family, they are relatively new, they showed up to church twice now, we have not been able to teach them but they have just loved church and are super exited to take the lessons, more on them later.

We also started working with a guy named Axel. Axel got into some trouble lately and he feels like the Lord humbled him and that he had his eyes opened and he wants his life to change now. so we are working with him to get back on the right course. Man we are getting so blessed here by so many people to see and help, we can hardly keep up with all of it, mostly because of mile restrictions. We have used 700 miles this month already and we only get 1100... so not sure how this is going to work out. Well I thank you again for all your prayers and love. Only 101 more days until I am home, not that I am counting.

Love The Bandit!

More Destruction poured out on the poor Mooremans

What a week. We have just been hammered lately with all this weather. Luckily for me the storm shelter is now done so we were sitting in recliners watching the news about all the tornadoes, safer than a duck in an egg. Our ward was actually assigned to go down and help out Moore this coming weekend but our stake president felt they needed to go a week early so half the ward was already on their way down to help when the storms hit. They were easily the first responding people to help out.      So in every area there is a legend. In some areas is is the legend of Elder Smith, in others Elder Jo Blo, here it is Elder Adams. Elder Adams was here for 9 months and every one loved him, some loved him so much they followed him out to Utah and married him. Well this week Elder Adams moved back to Indy. He is pretty legit and the ward is pretty happy to have him back, and it is always fun to meet the legend. He wants to feed us a lot to so I can't complain.

     This week we have been able to actually focus on Duk and the Shaffers a little bit more than usual because we have miles again and we don't have to go to Coffeyville as much. So Duk is still working on smoking, but we are pretty sure this time around he will be pretty solid. We hung up pictures of us all over his apartment with motivational phrases on the pictures like, "Do it for Jesus." "Stop Smoking." and "Jesus!!!!" he loved them. The Shaffers didn't come to church this Sunday because they were sick but we stopped by and talked about tithing and fast offerings. We have pretty much covered everything other than modern and living prophets. Other than that not a whole lot new going on here. A member wants to have us and the sisters over for Karaoke and food but more on that later. Well lots of love, I miss all y'all. Only a few more months. OTM, only three more (transfers that is.)