Sent 3/16/11
Our investigators are doing good. Vincent was baptized on Friday. It was extremely spiritual. The talks at his baptism were given by one of his friends and one of his friends Dad. They both were great. We had so many people there that we couldn't do the talks in the room with the font. We had to do everything in the chapel, then walk over to the room. Something like 100 students from the high school were there. Right before the baptism Elder M. and I snuck into the changing room to have a quick word with Vincent and his best friend who was baptizing him. As soon as we walked in they insisted that they have a prayer before the baptism. Mitchell (Vincent's best friend) offered the prayer. The spirit was so strong there. It felt as if angels were in the room with us.
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After the baptism we had the confirmation. This was done by Elder Manumaleuna. As he was giving the prayer he said that Vincent, our 17 year old, just baptized member, was to prepare and serve a mission. After the blessing I asked Elder M. why he had insisted that he say Vincent was to go on a mission. Elder M. Said that as he gave the prayer an image of Vincent wearing a missionary name tag popped into his head and did not leave. The whole experience was very spiritual.
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On Sunday, we had everyone talking about mission work so after sacrament we asked Vincent if he was going on a mission. He said that he was truly thinking about it and felt like he wanted to. Later that evening our new member of 2 days went to a mission prep. fireside. He is such an amazing young man and has grown so close to the spirit sense we had started teaching him.
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I haven't taught much on my own. I would add to what Elder M. said but he pretty much dominated the lessons. I thought this was ok because I'm just a greeny and I don't' want to mess things up. Well, yesterday Elder Manumaleuna got transfered and Elder Holyoak became my new companion. Today we had a lesson with our investigator Ben. Being a greeny, I didn't know what to teach or do because Elder M. was always in charge of that. So I thought I would just introduce Elder Holyoak and maybe share a little scripture. Boy was I wrong. The Lord wanted more than that. This morning I was reading in Alma Chapter 7 and I was reading about baptism. The spirit told me that I needed to share that with Ben. Ben has had all the discussions and so we are just waiting on him to act on what he has been told. Well, today we went to district meeting and they talked about the importance of getting your investigator to say the prayer. I thought back to all the previous lessons and realized that Ben had never said a prayer. So I thought, well I will really ask him today. When we got into the lesson I shared what I felt like I needed to share with Ben. It was really good. Then, towards the end, I was getting ready to ask him to give a closing prayer when I felt like I needed to explain how to pray to him. He had the 3 big lessons before I got there, so I assumed that he already knew our order of prayer. Again I was prompted to talk about how we pray. Well, I didn't want to ignore the spirit, so I asked him if he knew our we, as members of the church, prayed. He said that he did not know how. I then proceeded to talk about how we pray and then asked him if he would pray, and he did. It was a really great experience.
Love,
Elder Reese
Happy Green Day!
So Elder Bingham and I went on Exchanges and when we were walking back to his place this dog followed us home. we left it outside and hoped that it would eventually go home. two hours later we had to go up to another missionaries appartment (Elder Bingham lives with a couple sets of missionaries in an appartment complex) when we stepped out of the appartment the dog was sitting right there on our front porch. He must have really loved us. Eventually some crazy dog lady came and got him and took him to her place and called the police to find out who's dog it was. Thatcher is such a small town that people tend to just let their dogs wander the streets. we run into them all the time but none have ever followed us home before.
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AHHHHHH our trailer's on fire!!! JUST KIDDING. They were doing a controlled fire in our area and they burned down a house and 2 trailers and so we took a picture of it!
We have a member in our ward who is a policeman (most of the policemen are members of the church). Any ways, he took us to the station between meetings one Sunday to get us a soda and we got this picture.
This is Elder Manumaleuna and I in front of the temple.
Golfing on our P-day. The golfing was free but we did have to rent the cart. I didn't do well.
