September 21, 2009 Service and More Service

Hi Everyone,
I hope you all are doing well. This week was a kinda slow one for us unfortunately. Not a lot of people were home. But it was a nice week weather wise, so a lot of people were probably out and about doing stuff.
Monday night we drove to Bemidji, MN for the district meeting we were having there on tuesday. It was fun meeting with the other elders(2 other sets). Tuesday morning apparently a professor at a local Christian college invited us to participate in his class called "Modern Religious Movements." His point of discussion that day was on a talk given by Bruce R. McConkie called the "7 Deadly Heresies." Ya, bad choice mister. Good talk, but it focuses a lot on heresies in the mormon church that need to be corrected...but they mostly deal with deep, deep doctrine stuff. The kind of doctrine that shouldn't be so lightly discusses by people not of our faith. Needless to say it was an interesting class, lots of tangents and some of the missionaries got the teacher a little mad when we explained our point of view and discovered we don't believe he has the priesthood nor had a valid baptism. Ya, he was perturbed by the end of the class. But we just about doubled the class size with us 6 missionaries, so it was interesting.
Anyway, we helped some members can some food this week, that was fun. Some jelly and salsa. Got to continue teaching the 9 year old boy, he's doing great. turns out one of our investigator's is testing today, I think, to see if he is eligible to join the Marine Corps. Which is pretty awesome...but if he passes he'll get shipped out on wednesday, which is too bad. We'll see what happens.
We got to do a lot of service, ranging from mowing lawns, to moving furniture, to helping habitat for humanity build a home. It was a branch project and we helped to install the insulation. Ya, fun stuff. But it was good.
Other than that we're still trying to find new people to teach and continue to work with those we have. The hispanic couple won't be home for another week or two due to illness, which is sad. We did get a hold of the Taiwanese boy attending the Christian school in Fergus Falls, MN and we'll be meeting with him on saturday hopefully. So we're exciting about this upcoming week. Also because we have a dinner appointment every night except saturday, which is pretty awesome.
Well I hope you all are doing well and are studying your scriptures daily! It is a great strength to us in our lives and a tremendous blessing from the Lord to have all the scripture that we do. The church is true!
Love,
Elder Fitt