September 14, 2009

Hello Everyone,
I hope you all are doing well. We had a pretty good week this week. Lets see, some highlights:
We visited a member this week who said they think there is a spirit in their house. Not necessarily evil, but unwanted so they had us bless the house and hopes of getting rid of it. It was neat because she's native and her mother is too. Her mother was there and isn't a member but seemed to be grateful that we did it. She has her own ways of casting out spirits she said and told us if ours didn't work she'd try hers. But at least she's giving it a try.
Recently we got a referral from the Taiwai, Taipei Mission(oh ya Cameron) for a Taiwanese guy who was being taught there but is apparently attending a christian school in the area. He lives in Fergus Falls, about an hour drive so we had a member take us there last week. We were unable to contact him but found out he goes to a Lutheran academy. So it will be interesting but apparently he really liked our church. So hopefully we'll be able to contact him and get him baptized like the referral requested, haha.
But we were able to see most all of our investigators this week. And they're all doing well and seem to be doing a little better in their efforts. Unfortunately we didn't get to see Marcus, but he almost showed up to church on sunday, we'll have to ask him why he didn't make it.
Oh ya, on Saturday we were able to help out with a half marathon run that was taking place in the town. The Valdez family, members, were in charge of the water stations along the route. So we helped them bring additional water jugs to the tables and fill up cups and pass them out to the runners, as well as clean it all up afterwards. It was a lot of fun though. There were about 2,000 runners, so a decent size race for the population of the area. We also got a free t-shirt!
But other than that things are going as normal. The Perez family gets home this week so hopefully we'll be able to get back in contact with them and get the ball rolling. Its exciting being a missionary and I'm loving every second. I feel humble being allowed to be out here and performing the same task that the ancient apostles were charged with. It truly is an amazing and inspired work. Let us all strive to participate in it however we can in our lives, to help further the Lord's work and help our fellow brothers and sisters feel the love that comes with partaking of the gospel!
Love,
Elder Fitt