This week has been pretty good. Everything went well with Rex and Josh concerning their baptisms. Josh just got confirmed yesterday, so now both of them are ready to just go forward with their lives.
We also picked up another investigator that we hadn't taught at all yet, but the previous missionaries had. Her name is Jessie (she has a couple family members that are LDS) and her fiancé's name is Nick. They work for one of the members in our ward, Dr. Stout, and they had been going to church for a while, but we had never had an actual sit-down lesson until yesterday. Jessie is set for baptism on Feb. 11th, but Nick isn't set yet. It's funny because Nick wasn't too religious until he recommended that both of them go to church, and we were talking yesterday about how Jessie was too embarrassed to ask Nick if he wanted to learn more and the whole time, he did. She thought that he would be offended if the missionaries came over to teach them a little more. I guess it shows that some people want to know more, but we have to be bold and have the courage to just ask them if they do.
Yesterday's church meeting was a little strange because we only had one hour of church. This was because somehow the running water broke in the chapel and in case there were to be a fire, there'd be no way of putting it out, so we used bottled water for the sacrament.
We had a really cool lesson this week. The Thomas family in our ward have a daughter named Rachel that invited one of her friends, Melissa, from school to hear about the lessons. We sat down with all of them and the lesson went really well. The only problem is that Melissa is going back to school in Phoenix next week, I think, and so we'd have to pass on her information to the missionaries that work over there. We also did a service for one of our part-member families this week named the Kleinhampl's where the wife is a member and the husband isn't. The husband is a really nice guy, and he even invited us to come over sometime next week and talk with him, so we'll see how that goes.
Something that we've been trying this week is going over to member's houses and sharing with them a spiritual message about the Restoration and then after, seeking to obtain referrals. It's actually been working pretty well, and this way members know that we want to work with their friends and they'll often times offer up their home to have a lesson there. Lessons always go better when we teach the investigator with their friend (the member) inside their friend's house because they already have that sense of fellowship and trust.
That's awesome that Kara and her kids get to come over for a little bit. I bet Jacob will have fun sleeping in my big bed (big for him). That's really neat also how Bro. M. is coming back to church. I do remember going over to his house quite a few times when I was Dad's home teaching companion. We never know how much of an impact we can make on people's lives.
I also hope that Grandpa Jim can recover as quick as possible. I will certainly pray for him. I hadn't noticed that it was 4 years since James went into the MTC. I guess a lot really has happened since then!
Well, I think that's about it from me this week. I'll let you know if I need anything.
I love you!
Elder Meiners
P.S. I sent some more pictures this week.
#1 and 2- from when we helped out the lady that lived in Essex, CA (in the middle of nowhere) and how much wood we had chopped up for her for the winter
#3 and 4- some pictures from when we saw some Native American markings on rocks. They say that the markings could be anywhere from 1,000-50,000 years old.
#5 and 6- pictures from Rex's baptism and then Josh's baptism
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