Hello from Sunny South Dakota!

Hello Everyone,

We had a pretty good week this week! Transfers were pretty crazy though. The vehicle that was transporting my new companion ran quite a bit late, so I got a fun opportunity to spend some time working in the zone leaders area of Brookings, SD with them. My companion didn't get to Brookings until about 10 pm and they were supposed to be there about 6 hours earlier, but it was good spending time with a bunch of Elders and not feel so isolated.

Well Elder Jones and I have been working to find some new investigators, and we actually were able to get one this past week. His name is James and seems like he could be pretty promising providing his minister doesn't find out that we're visiting with him and feed him some anti material. Hopefully that won't happen. But other than that tracting hasn't been too effective, so we're working with our Branch mission leader to get into every member's home in the branch to share a missionary lesson with them. Hopefully we can get that accomplished but it will be a difficult feat because the branch boundaries spread about 60 miles each direction from Watertown. So it'll be a lot of driving.

We also were able to go home teaching with a member and got to see a lot of the outlying towns in the area. This faithful member's route takes about 5 hours for him to drive to all his appointments... and thats without even visiting the families. Luckily we only did half of it, but man, no one is allowed to complain about their hometeaching route after hearing that! And, almost all of the families are less-active too. But he gets it done every month- what a stud!

Other than that we're enjoying the wonderful spring weather with the sun shining and the temperature which has been in the 50's. Hopefully it'll stay around for a while.

I'm so grateful for this opportunity to serve and the challenges that come with it. What a blessing it is to have trials and to learn from them and overcome them with the help of the Savior. I am grateful for the gospel in my life and know it to be true!

Have a great week!
Love,
Elder Fitt