January 11, 2010

Hello Everyone,

How's it going? Things here are pretty good. The weather was pretty dang chilly last week but its supposed to get warmer this week for a January Thaw. Too bad it won't last though, it'll all just refreeze shortly after, but the warmth of possible above freezing (32 degrees) weather will be nice. Thats short sleeve weather (provided theres no wind)!

Lets see, not too much happened this week out of the ordinary. It was slow like usual, which is unfortunate. A lot of people that we work with are having their schedules changed around because of people quitting and other reasons so it has been tough to meet with them. But we're gonna keep trying, obviously. We were able to make some more progress with Keith, and he's been reading from the Book of Mormon! Way awesome, not many investigators actually crack it open, at least in my experience (maybe thats my fault?). But he's been taking it to work becasue his supervisor told him to stop bringing his bible because it influences other people to be Christian (he works at a group home) SOO he's been taking the Book of Mormon to read during breaks because it ISN'T the bible so they can't tell him to stop, haha ya pretty cool. He's doing well though.

We were also able to meet with the Perez's a bit and they said they still want to hold off on baptism, which is fine because they still are considering it but are waiting for a solid spiritual confirmation. But they really want to learn and we finally have some spanish speaking support which helps lot. So thats good and we're gonna keep working with them, thats all you can do.

So crazy story this week. The garages for our apartment building caught on fire this week! Some dodo was trying to heat his engine up by putting a propane heater underneath it and he left it unattended. Something caught on fire which ended up torching 3-4 of the garages and not only destoying his car but badly damaging 2 others. Luckily there was fireproof sheetrock installed which stopped the fire spreading further down the row. Our garage is at the very end so we still had 5-6 garages inbetween ours and the fire, which is nice, though most of the stuff in our garage got badly smokedamage so we'll have to trash them. But luckily it was mostly just papers and pamphlets. My bike got a nice new black finish to it though!

So thats the exciting news for the week. But I did have a really neat experience at church. I won't go too much into detail but I had an overwhelming feeling of God's love for all of us and that came through observing and interacting with some sweet little children. I couldn't stop smiling all through Sacrament meeting because of all the little children, especially a little or 3 year old girl that was playing peek-a-boo with me. It made me think about the Savior and his love for little children. Then it made me think about the Prophet Joseph Smith and his love for little children. They are embodiments of purity, innocence and love. No wonder we are told to become childlike. And that also made me remember a talk I was listening too. The speaker remarked on how little children completely trust their parents. I think that's something we lose as we grow older, and one of the most important things we should to strive to develope, complete trust in our Father in Heaven. There is much to be learned from little children that we sadly unlearn as we grow up. But thats why we have this time to learn and grow our testimonies and help others do so as well.

Well I'll get off my soapbox and hope you all have a great week!

Love,
Elder Fitt