Dear Family and Friends,
Well it is pretty crazy how fast time flies, because this
upcoming week is week six again. It feels like I got transferred to
Antelope like only two days ago. I can't believe how fast it is going.
Elder Grover goes home at the end of this week, so we got to work our butts off
to make his mission finish strong. He is BEAST-MODE. He puts up
with my teasing and I love him a lot. It is going to be hard, and I hope
it doesn't make me trunky when I send him home. He leaves next Tuesday at
like 4 o’clock in the morning. I’m not getting up to see him off. I
need my beauty sleep. So I know for a fact that I will be getting a new
companion. This is a first on my mission.
Things are going well in our area. I am very grateful
that we have been able to find so much success. We are hoping to pick up
a trio of investigators from our YSA ward but we will see how it goes this
week. Our family ward is still going very well. We have a lot of
work right now, so it is pretty exciting. I hope to be able to keep it up
this next week. We don't have anybody that is super close to baptism at
this point but we have a bunch of investigators that I think will be baptized
in the future. Dorothy is in her 70's. She is a black lady who grew
up in Ogden Utah. She is madly in love with Elder Grover. We talked
this week about temple work for the dead, and she said she wanted her ancestor’s
work to be done. I bet she will be baptized at some point. Gary and
Kay are still doing well. They haven't read yet, or attended Church, but
are still trying to get settled into their new home, so it is
understandable. They are great, and they love us missionaries, they fed us
some dinner after a lesson this week, after we left we drove to our signed up
dinner and had dinner again. It was fun. Mark Andrews is married to
an active member of the Church. They are going through marital problems,
and Mark wants to meet because of it. But he is doing good. He does
not have any Christian background so pretty much everything that we teach is
brand new to him, and he likes to ask us about the Cavemen and how they fit in
with Adam and Eve, but it is okay. He finally came to church this week,
so hopefully he keeps on progressing. We also are meeting with Marez
again. We were asked to stop for a week or two by our bishop in the YSA
ward, but he is okay with us meeting with a couple of restrictions. So we
had a lesson with Marez yesterday and he is doing good. He said the
opening prayer, and asked God to help him to know, he even said that he can go
home after and pray and ask God if the things we were going to teach him were
true. It was really touching and I think he is starting to get it—even
though he is a little rough around the edges.
I can hardly believe that my 21st birthday is
tomorrow. I am excited, but not really. I will go out and have a
good hardworking day and that will be my present to myself. Plus we have
Elder Barney with us tomorrow, so it will be a good day. Well, it is time
to go. I get to email this morning because we are having car troubles
again and at the same dealership for the same problem! yay
I love yalls gutz!
Elder Nick Ellsworth
CRM
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