June 1, 2009 Its raining, it pouring . . .

Hello everyone,
Things are going great here! Its raining at the moment, which is a nice change from the blazing hot 85 degree weather we've been having! Haha, man I'm glad I'm not serving in Mexico or Hawaii or Brazil or something...too hot for me! Anyways, the Lord is continuing to bless our area a lot!
This week we were blessed to commit two more people with a baptismal date! Two native women who are excited for their baptism and love church! Its great. Two of their friends are getting close too, which is great. We were able to get 7 investigators at church this week, it was ridiculous, record for me so far. Though it wasn't at all of my own doing.
This month is looking really promising and its exciting to be a part of. Oh ya, I called to be the district leader here in Rapid City again. So that will be fun stuff...its a huge district, 13 elders, 2 sisters, 2 senior couples, the mission president and his wife and the assistants to the president! So district meetings are usualyl pretty big, but its great.
Interesting story...last week we ran into a guy who had probably one of the most intense and crazy religious beliefs I've ever heard. He isn't part of any denomination, just has his own ideas that he says God told him about. Anyways, he prefaced his beliefs by an experience that started it all when he was 12(I almost laughed when he told us). He said he found an old ship off the coast of Southern California that had on board thousands of these perfect pearls, the Holy Bible, The Book of Life, The Book of Death, The Ark of the Covenant, The Holy Grail, Excalibur, and Then Necronomicon! Pretty crazy huh...but he doesn't have any of it because he didn't want to take any with him. And his brother who was with him(so he says) doesn't remember anything...so all the validity of his statement went right down the drain. But needless to say, he had some crazy beliefs, a lot of which had some profound elements of truth and deep doctrine twisted into it, but there was so much extra stuff that the truths were hard to discern. It was a neat experience...learned that Noah didn't really build an ark, he was just a rich man who lived on a plantation and knew how to teleport...so he teleported himself and all the animals to avoid the flood. Yup..thats how it happened!
Anyway, I'm loving it out here and am really enjoying the work. Lots of great experiences and hard times but its all worth it and I wouldn't give it up for anything! The Church is true!
Love,
Elder Fitt