Monday, October 6, 2008

Week Three/Area One

Hello Everyone!
This week has been great! First off, General Conference was amazing to say the least. There were so many good talks, and though it is hard to pick a favorite, one would have to be President Uchdorf's talk on hope. It was so powerful and had so much stuff in it. President Uchdorf is such a stud, heh, he has some really great talks. But you were all there(I hope) so I won't talk anymore about it.
This week went pretty fast, probably because we kept ourselves busy. But, basically all of our lessons fell through this week, which was disappointing. Either the people weren't there, or they found something else to keep them busy, or they had to go to work 'unexpectedly. Oh well. All of our callbacks fell through as well, which you get from tracting, except one!!! It was our first callback since I've been here that hasn't fallen through, and we've had at least 15. The guy's name is Ramon(accent above the 'o'). He grew up on the Indian reservation, or the 'rez'. He's a nice guy, and not a native, or doesn't look native. We taught him the first half of the Restoration and then he had to go. But as he was walking us out he told us he felt the love we brought, and just felt good about what we were teaching. So he seems pretty golden to me. He's had a hard life and I think we're teaching him exactly what he needs to hear.
The rest of the week was full of tracting, and visiting less-active members of the church, in efforts to get them to come to General Conference. We invited probably about the six or so that were home or let us in, but none of them showed to any session of Conference.
We had the opportunity to visit with a less-active family, the Freestone's. They're a couple probably in their 30's with 2 little girls. Brother Freestone has been a member all his life, but I'm not sure if his wife is. Anyway, they were really great people, extremely nice and hospitable. They said they believed the church and call but the wife said, "I'm not a church going person." So they just don't go to church. Hopefully somewhere down the line we can instill in them a desire to go to church. Their little girls go sometimes because they like going, maybe that will help spark a desire in their soul to attend as well.
We taught Angelo the Plan of Salvation this week, and he loved it. He believes everything we teach him which is awesome, and said it was great actually knowing about the Plan and how much our Father in Heaven loves us. We didn't talk about baptism this week, it didn't feel right. Hopefully this coming week he'll be ready to accept a baptismal committment.
Well not much else has happened this weel. We've basically had to start from scratch since I got here, in a difficult area, because most everybody is already content with their own religion and aren't willing to learn more about our church. But we're working hard and trying our best to get inside people's house and spread the good word of the Lord!
I love you all and am grateful for your support. Have a great week everyone!

Love,
Elder Fitt

P.S.
I'm not sure if the correct address was given out to everyone to mail letters to. So I'll relist it:

Elder William Fitt
819 E. Broadway Avenue #B2
Pierre, SD 57501

Sorry for the trouble...the mission president gave out an incorrect address the first time around...silly mission president.

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