March 30, 2009 Hello From Elder Fitt!

Oh ya, has this week been nice. It started warming up early last week and its went to the 40's to 50's and has been in the 60's for 3 or so days now. Its nice to have some warm weather for a change, but 60 is a little too hot, maybe 55 or 50 would be good.
The other benefit of warm weather is we can tract houses without freezing our faces off! Apartments are alright and everything, but it gets depressing being stuck in a building which usually smells like alcohol and throw up, yuk. So it has been really fun being able to get outside and tract some houses again. We've been blessed with a lot of callbacks and potential investigator's this week. So hopefully has be check back on them this week we'll be able to make some progress.
As of now though the work is going a little slow. A lot of our investigator's aren't progressing too well, which could be out fault, or not letting us in. But we're trying. We were able to do some good service this week for people and just get out in the neighborhood and brighten people's days, which is good. Sometimes we harvest and sometimes we seed the ground...or in some cases break up the ground and remove the rocks, which gratefully isn't our task here like it was in Pierre.
I'm blessed with a good District though and another set of good Elders in our apartment which help make the work fun and interesting. Oh ya, thanks for all the letters from everyone this week, they were great...I'll have to try to find some time to write back...I'm bad at that. I don't know if my mom has been able to upload some of the pictures I sent her, hopefully though...I can tell I'm getting a little chubbier out here, not much though. So we've been trying to eat a lot healthier...which includes lots of fruit smoothies and just other healthy stuff. Its good though and I don't know why I'm writing all this, just kind of rambling on. Soo I hope everyone had a great week. The Church is true! Oh ya real quick. Yesterday in Priesthood I learned how on the west side of the Salt Lake Temple, the big dipper is carved into the face of the middle tower. And if you don't know, the big dipper points to the North Star, which is the star that would lead mariners as well as other people back home. It is a guiding star and helps you get your bearings to know where you're at as well. The symbolism is that the Restored Gospel of Jesus Christ and the temple act in the same function, they help point others back home, back to safety and refuge, back to their Father in Heaven. And just like how there is only ONE North Star, there is only one Church that can bring us joyfully back home, and that is Christ's church.
Well, have a great week!
Love,
Elder Fitt