Its already been 3 months, well in 3 days it will be. Pretty crazy how fast time flies. I can't believe Thanksgiving is this week! Its going to hurt though..we have 4 families that want us over for dinner, my stomach is going to explode.
So this week was good. We got to help out Scott Olson a little more on his shed. Since we finished the truss's last weekend, we got to put them up on Monday, so we built the basic skeleton of the roof, it was pretty crazy. And it was getting dark when we were finishing, we're just lucky it stayed up!
Funny story, we tracted into a lady who had Alzheimer's...needless to say she had about 3 different conversations programmed into her mind that all led into each other so it was pretty funny. She was a sweet old lady though, and it we left after being there a while and hearing about 10 times how she could "never steer a vehicle, I wonder why that is?"
We got to teach Angelo twice this week, on faith and Alma 32, which was really good. He enjoyed it a lot...now we just gotta get him to church and stuff. But he's really busy at work and takes as many shifts as we can, so he's seldom free on sundays : /
We taught Cal some more. We read with him in 3 Nephi 11 and explained a lot of about the Gospel of Jesus Christ and answered a lot of his questions. But he doesn't want to leave the Methodist church. And he told us he was going to ask his preacher if Jesus really did come to the Americas...oh boy. But we're going to invite him out to the First Presidency Christmas Devotional, hopefully he'll be able to feel the Spirit strongly there.
On Tuesday we had district meeting, which was great. And afterward Elder Nelson who is serving in Eagle Butte, stayed down here on exchange. We had a good end of the week together and its always fun having a new companion for a while.
Ya so we visited the Gravatz again, the guy with the crazy stories. Apparently he used to be a Catholic Monk when he was younger...a Catholic monk who lived in an episcopal church(church of england i believe) that has been around since before Christ and has a crown in the backroom with golden snakes adorning it in the shape of 666. Heh. Hes a cool guy.
We also got a new investigator, his name is Austin and I guess he's been taught before by other missionaries but just moved to Pierre recently. So we started out with the Restoration to review. He's awesome and knows the importance of prayer and committed to reading from the Book of Mormon more, hes in Enos at the moment!
On Saturday we exchanged back in Eagle Butte, 2 hour drive away from Pierre, and attended a baptism there of a mother and daughter Elder Nelson and Schoppmann had been teaching. It was a nice service.
I don't remember if I told you all last week, but the family that I helped teach when I was up on the rez in Eagle Butte, the family of 6, they committed to baptism on December 6th! And the oldest son, Wyman, wants to go to the temple as soon as possible. Its so cool, they're an awesome family and I'm really excited.
So we hadn't been able to find Markata for a while, but apparently she was in jail for a while for some reason...we were worried about her. But she's fine, which is good. We talked to her and found out she isn't smoking any more! Which is awesome, and she's trying to stop drinking, which is way good.
We're trying to find new people to teach but everyone out here is still pretty comfortable with where they're at. Its hard trying to show people being complacent is not a good thing! The Gospel often times requires you to be uncomfortable to you can grow from the experience, and progress and have a better understanding of your Heavenly Father's love for you! I have really gained a testimony of this on my mission so far. It constantly requires you to go out of your comfort zone and though it is hard sometimes, the Lord blesses you for doing so and you are able to make a difference in someone's life.
Well I hope everyone is doing great and that you all have a happy Thanksgiving!
Love,
Elder Fitt
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