Dear Mom
Marion is great, we are really
trying to turn things around out here. I
think Ill bring you back to church here so you can experience it for yourselves
after the mission.
Back to the work, we are getting
excited. The district up here has been in the dumps and kind of depressed for a
long time. We needed something to get us going, and then "The Work of
Salvation" broadcast came out and all the missionaries got excited. The
only problem was, the members for the most part didn’t catch the significance
of it and so we shared more about it in each of our 5th Sunday third hour
lessons. But anyways the district has been down so I spent a lot of time
thinking and pondering and I came up with what I thought to be a great and
inspired idea. We are going to have a luau with the 3 wards/branches we are
working in! It’s going to be great. It will be missionary centered so everyone
is supposed to invite friends and everything. We are excited to get that going!
As far as Fourth of July goes we are
going to have a flag raising and breakfast at the church in the morning and
then we will have a cook-out (not barbeque haha) at Donna A’s home. She is
making ribs, fried chicken, burgers and hot dogs, "tater-salad",
"macaroni-cheese", and a few other things. It’s going to be great! ha
there is a lot of patriotism down here but there are just as many
"Southern Pride" folk. We see confederate flags hanging on ever other
house.
Oh and the S’s baptism was amazing.
I got to go down but Elder Hart had to stay up here with some other
missionaries. We completely filled the chapel for the baptism, which is the
size of the chapel in the Boulter building at home. There were more people
there than come to church out here. The relief society room for the actual ordinance
was standing room only and not everyone could fit in. I got to speak about the
day that they actually accepted a date for baptism and explain how it went and
what we felt. It was a truly humbling and amazing experience.
Well out of time! love you
Elder Bakker
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| Typical country road |
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| Over looking Saltville |
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| Fireflies....too bad Utah doesn't have these |
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