Family family family.............
Scripture of the week: 1 nephi 8: 10,12
Ah man no niece yet. I was so anxious to get on here and see if i had a nugget, but not yet. That's ok though she will come when she is ready.
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| "Me riding my new horse (mission approved horse back riding haha)" |
What a week. First off i did not get to attend the baptism. The rule in the mission is we have to have an investigator that will attend with us. Well we were not fortunate enough to get one to attend with us. But there was a reason the Lord works things in his own way. I wish so bad i could have been there, because guess who baptized her?? Brother Gregory baptized Tina. I so badly wanted to be able to see that. But it was still neat. I was there when tina asked him to do it so that was cool. The Bap interviews were so neat. Being District leader is the bomb. The spirit in the interviews was so incredible. And it was a really neat experience to get to interview tina even though i had taught her. From reports of members of the district, and an email from sister gregory it sounds like everything went fantastic.
Instead of being at the baptism i was at a funeral here in the newport branch. Sister stevens passed away from cancer at age 49. I never got to meet her, but it sounds like she was an incredible lady. Her family is incredible. She has 8 kids, 3 of them still at home. Thank goodness for the knowledge of the plan of salvation.
I got to talk to bishop tucker at the funeral, that was really neat. He thanked me for being such a good missionary, and then grabbed the branch president and told him that i am one of the top ten missionaries he has ever served with. that was really a wonderful compliment.
I am so beyond proud of Elder Guinn. He has grown so much in the past month. Its been really special to get to be part of his mission still. Even though it most likely drives him crazy. Sister Gregory told me he spoke at the baptism and did an incredible job.
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| "View out over lake Memphremagog" |
This week was a good one. By far our best numbers week in the area. We taught 16 lessons, so not quite to my 20 in lyndon, but we are getting there. We found two new investigators. One named brenda, she has investigated for years and just could never stop smoking. She contacted us and said she is no longer smoking. She should be gettting a bap date set tomorrow. The other is a man named chris who upon opening the door told us he was atheist, but by the time we left he was totally convinced there is a God.
This thursday we have interviews with president i am excited for that. And on wednesday i am going back to lyndon on exchange. Those poor people just can not escape me.
Oh so speaking of miracles... If you remember back a few months youll remember me telling you about elder guinn and i being prompted to go to a small town way far in our area in lyndon, called granby. Well we did and had no success or so we thought. Last night elder guinn called me very excited about there new investigator from GRANBY. It turns out he lived in one of the houses we knocked on. He saw them in st j and asked if they would teach him. So yes miracles are real and they do happen in the NHMM.
There are a few signs in english and french. I am still convinced that someday ill learn french. whether on this mission or on one when im older i do not yet know.
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| Vermont... |
Newport itself is way bigger than lyndon, but lots of smaller towns around it. I have so may pictures from this week that i wont be able to include half of them. It looks like high adventure went so well. i want to go on a horse ride so bad. Its interesting how the mission makes you love things you used to love. So please dont sell tuff while i am gone.
I sure do love you guys.
Leaving it all on the field
Elder TONER
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