December 8, 2008

Hello Everyone!
Man time is flying by. I hope everyone is doing well and that you all were able to attend the Christmas Devotional with your non-member friends! It was awesome, none of our investigators showed up(darn it!) but a less-active came, Ivan Gravatt, the guy with crazy sweet stories. So that was good.
So we got a new investigator this week. Her name is Deby Trap, middle-aged women with a few children. Her husband lives and works on their Ranch in Midland, a ways out of town, so her and the kids live in Pierre during the week for school then go to the ranch on the weekends. We taught her about the Restoration and we brought up how there is prophets today on the earth and she was all jokingly "well the better getter to work then" ...ya, I think they're getting to work lady, haha. But she is really nice and hopefully we when we teacher her next the Spirit will really touch her heart.
We went up to the rez this week, Eagle Butte(In the Cheyenne River Reservation if anyone wants to look it up) because Elder Daly had to do the baptismal interviews for the Waters' family who is getting baptized on Saturday. It was a good trip, but the weather got pretty bad so we had to stay up there for the night, sleeping in the church. Man those floors are uncomfortable! It was good though.
We got to visit a less-active lady, Rachel, for a while. I think I have talked a little about her before, how she is living a lifestyle contrary to church standards and doesn't want to stop because its too much fun. Anywho, we got to read with her from the Book of Mormon...last time we visited she refused to read from it. It was great. When we left we assigned her to read some chapters and she said she would! She's changing and not even realizing it. She really is a nice girl, but I don't think she knows it. Its awesome seeing the Lord work in others lives.
Saw Markata this week too and taught her about prayer...then our next appointment she was missing again, and wasn't home all week. Might be in jail again, oh boy. Crazy people out here, that's for sure, but I hope she's alright, I can tell she really wants to change.
So ya, transfer calls were this week. Elder Daly is being shipped off to Rapid City to be a zone leader, and Elder Nelson will be my new companion, the Elder Nelson from Eagle Butte, who I have served with on exchanges a couple times...kinda crazy. What's crazier is his companion, Elder Schoppmann, has served his whole mission so far in Eagle Butte, for 9 months, and now he'll be training a new missionary there, which usually lasts for 2 transfers or 3 months...so he will have served in one area for a whole year, pretty crazy...but he loves it.
Anyway, I hope everyone is doing great. Sorry for not writing back to everyone who has written me letters, I'll get better at that. And since I'm not leaving Pierre my address will be the same:
Elder William Fitt
819 E. Broadway Ave. #B2
Pierre, SD 57501
Alrighty then, have a great week everyone, I love you all!
Love,
Elder Fitt