July 20, 2009

Hello everyone,
I hope all is going well with you! The work here is kinda slow as usual, but good. We had an interesting week this week. Some of the "promising" investigators we had dropped us this week unfortunately. We got to see some others and the work went on just as usual. But one thing here that is always hard is finding people. Tracting here is really difficult, people are pretty set in their ways so tracting isn't too fruitful. But the other day we were trying to find a place to tract. So we drove down a road and both of us had a weird feeling...for some reason the street just didn't feel right. So I turned around and went to another little community and we just drove and decided to tract at the end of a couldesac(sp?). Anyway, a few doors down we were able to talk with a lady named Angela and give talk to her about the Restoration. She really seemed to enjoy it and was excited to read the Book of Mormon. We're going to be seeing her tomorrow...so hopefully
she's had a positive experience reading and praying! Either way it was exciting to actually have some success tracting.
We were also blessed to get in and visit with an investigator that has lost contact with us for a while. Her name is Alysha and she's searching pretty hard for the truth right now. She is looking at the Seventh Day Adventist church but hasn't said she has decided either way. She just wants to find truth. So hopefully she'll take the initiative to read what we left her so she can find out for herself.
Other than that we're just trying to find ways to fill the time in the day. There isn't much going on here. The members are great but don't do much in the ways of referrals...and since many of them live 20+ miles out of town its a little hard too. We do a lot of service, which is good. We were able to spread about 10 yards(cubic) of bark chips around the Chamber of Commerce here in town, which was fun. Reminded me of the days when I used to do that in High School with some friends. It was fun, took a little while with only two of us and one wheel barrow, but it looks good now.
Late last night we got a call from the Branch President asking us to meet him at the hospital. A member's daughter(about 7 years old) apparently had appendicitis and was in the emergency room and had requested a blessing. So we hurried over and we were able to administer a blessing before she went in for surgery. It was a neat experience. I think her father isn't a member, but he was really grateful we came and did it. So maybe a seed was planted there and some fruit may come of it in the future.
Anyway, that was our week in a nutshell. The church is true and I'm loving the work. Keep praying for missionary experiences and the Lord will bless you with them!
Love,
Elder Fitt