#19 - Merry Christmas from the Hoosiers!

this truck is massive. Elder Quick wants it...

  The shovel used in the ground breaking of the Indiana temple

Pic in downtown Bloomington

 This is elder Lorch. He is my ZL and lives in bishop packers ward!

I got my staples out Saturday! you will have to see the cool scar it left:)

Luckily we just want to save souls...

We meet some of the strangest people when we are tracting! The best is when a big fat man opens the door without a shirt on and invites us in to teach him:)) Or while we are praying with someone they start hooping and hollering for their Lord Jesus. Hoosier have a way with making some of the most awkward situations feel normal.

We had a district meeting on Friday. I couldn't figure out what to give a training on all week. Friday morning I woke up remembering the weirdest dream! I can't remember it anymore but in the end we had found some great investigators from super weird and creative finding ways. The district meeting was awesome because we came up with ways to find new people! The most successful ways to find is from member referrals! I hope everyone is finding people who can meet the missionaries. When someone already feels welcome and has a friend in the ward it makes it so much easier to make the leap of faith to be baptized. "The intensity of our desire to share the Gospel is a great indicator of the extent of our personal conversion."

Elder Dallin H Oaks

Wednesday we had a ward party to make fruit baskets. They had 4 extra baskets so we delivered them to some of our investigators. They all loved it! I have been challenging everyone to get to know their neighbors here. Christmas is a great excuse to go bring them some cookies and introduce yourself. We have also been asking our investigators who they know would want to meet us.

We woke up on Thursday with icicles in our room! The heater wasn't working and we woke up soooo cold. There were not actually icicles but it felt like it! We ran to the other missionaries house and did morning studies there because I wasn't trying to get hypothermia. No worries now it is fixed now:)

We met a country singer named Tim! He accepted an invitation to be baptized this weekend. He seems like one of our more solid people on date to be baptized. We also are teaching a man named Ace who is a rapper, Charlee and his family, Tracy, and the Fish family. Mike Fish has a friend in the ward and loves the Book of Mormon! We found a man who has been taught by the missionaries about a year ago. He has a wife and two little kids. There are many more great people we meet with but those are the ones on date or soon to be! None have been to church yet so we need to get them there!

Have a good week!