People on Date!

Another temple week. Sorry. Well it was a good one. Going to the temple is always very refreshing. I always learn a lot.

 

We have been teaching a lot of members recently. President Greer has set a focus on finding new investigators and this week we were finally able to really get going on visiting members of our wards and teaching them about the Doctrine of Christ. Then we ask them for referrals! And it works! We always ask for referrals at dinner and other times when we see members but it doesnt have the same effectiveness. We go in their home and share a message and are out in 20 minutes. Because it's so focused and they know why we are there we actually get referrals! That has been fun. We are trying to visit with everyone in our wards.

 

We have 11 people on date for baptism at one point this week. two of them fell off date though so now we have 9. Two will be baptized this saturday. Jason and Phoenix are being baptized this saturday. We put some of the Orozco family on date. The orozco's have a lot of people in their family. It's 2 sisters and their men and usually around 10-12 kids living in the house. And 5 of them are baptismal eligable. Three of them have accepted a date for baptism. AND THEY CAME TO CHURCH ON SUNDAY! They took up two rows haha. It was great to have them there and see that they were on track.

 

Matthew and Chris are also still on track for next week being baptized. They are way excited too.

 

Alexander Siharath has kinda disappeared... We haven't been able to find him! We're kinda nervous about that because he's so so cool. He just needs to be less busy and understand what's important.

 

Linda was the last one that set a date. She has to serve some jail time. A week and a half I think. And they didn't show up to church after we had a really really big stress on that in our last lesson. We told them that we would knock on their door at 8:30 to get them out of the house and they promised us they would be there. And they weren't. That was a big disappointment... I don't know what to do with them.

 

Thats all 9. And we hope to put 4 more on date really soon. Sandra and Katrina, who just moved in with sandra's daughter in law, mindy. They moved from Louisiana. Mindy is a less-active member and her kids aren't baptized. Jahiem and Jaysean are baptismal age though. So Sandra Katrina Jahiem and Jaysean, and also maybe One of Katrina's children. Sandra and Katrina are really really black. That makes it kinda fun hahaha. We taught them this week and it went really well. The reason we got in contact with them is because bishop's wife knew they had moved into mindy's place and she went and picked them up for church. So that is where we met them. It was awesome!

 

We're also teaching a Part-Member family, the Duvall's. Tom is a non-member and Bonnie has been a member all her life. They both smoke. That is the only thing holding Tom back from being baptized. He wants to quit so we are working with him. I hope they start attending church and going to the church sponsored addiction recovery class in kennewick.

 

Connie Acosta needs to get married. That's it. Then she can be baptized.

 

The holmbo's daughter is moving to Pasco and she will probably be baptized soon too! That is Jason's half-sister. And Emily Water's sister. The Holmbos are like a baptism factory.

 

I am doing well. Elder Camba and I are staying very very busy. 11 people on date is pretty crazy... We are very blessed with work in our area.

 

The weather is hot. It's been in the 100's lately.

 

Everything else is going well. Keep praying for me. I wish I could write more...

 

Love you all! Write me.

 

Elder Paxman