April 5, 2010

Hello Everyone,
I hope you all had a wonderful Easter sunday! And I hope you had the opportunity to watch all the sessions of conference. They were great! It was a very spirtually innervating conference. Its neat how there is always a theme in the conferences, this one seem to focus a lot on each aspect of the family especially in strengthening it spiritually. There was a lot of warning in this conference whether they said it out front or eluded to it in the talks, but they seemed to have a sense of urgency about them. This life is the time for us to prepare to meet God, and if we don't prepare swiftly we may loose our ability to prepare.
We had a decent week though. It was a little slow but we did get to have some good appointments with people. We're still struggling to find new people to teach and are about to get into our plan to visit all the members in the branch. We did have a great lesson with James last week and we committed him for baptism on the 24th of April! We may have to move it back because that weekend is Stake Conference. The biggest problem was he didn't make it to conference, so hopefully when he had attended his church that morning for their meetings he didn't get any negative messages about our church, and hopefully he just got caught up in the Easter festivities.
Other than that we're doing good. I'm really enjoying the spring weather, its been beautiful here. In the 60's mainly with a nice breeze and almost all the snow is gone. Except for 2 big piles in town. On is probably about 30 feet high and 150 feet in circumference. Its a ton of snow mixed with dirt that they've piled from the course of the winter, and it will probably take another few months to melt.
Other than that things are going good. Not too much to report this week besides being harassed by a drunk. We were teaching a lesson to one of our investigators on his door step and the drunk guy comes up and apparently our investigator knew him and backed up and went inside after a few seconds. They guy tried to talk with us for about Jesus while dropping the F bomb right and left. I tried to leave as quick as possible because I've dealt with enough of these guys before but my companion talked to him a bit, trying to be courteous. I know we're supposed to love one another...but in situations like that you don't care about common courtesy, you tell the guy you have to go and you get the heck out of Dodge, because you have no idea what he is trying to do or wants to do with you. Luckily, our investigator had called the cops so in a few minutes a trooper pulled up and got the guy in his car. He knew the drunk by name...so I'm guessing he has a long history in the area. But that isn't too exciting news because it happened a lot in Rapid...OBEY the word of wisdom! Thats all I have to say, alcohol, drugs, tobacky, baddd stuff.
Anyway, I think I'll end on that beautiful note. The church is true! I testify we are being led by a prophet of God and that as we follow the counsel we have been so richly blessed with this week we will find pure joy and peace in our lives.
Love,
Elder Fitt