I am doing well still. Missouri is fun still. No matter how used to
a small town you think you are... you always see something that
surprises you! haha The other day there was 2 old guys sitting by a fire
they made on the grass on their front lawn, cooking hobo dinners for
lunch, a big ol guy with no shirt and they had the door of the pick up
open listening to the most hick country music I have ever heard! haha
coming from me , you know that means a lot! hahaha it was funny!
I am not driving any more, my companion got his papers signed so
now he is the driver! So I am back to standing behind the car backing
him up and on the passenger side! ha. oh and carrying the phone, which
my companion is happy about because he doesn't have to talk to people
any more! ha but that is alright with me, because I like to text the
other missionaries in our ward funny things randomly! haha.
We are supposed to teach 20 lessons every week. it is our
"Standard of Excellence" for teaching. It is mixed with Investigators,
less-active members, recent converts, and member lessons. SO between
those different ways we are supposed to teach 20 lessons a week. That is
where 20 lessons came from in my last e-mail! This last week we taught
15 I think... so it was okay!
We set a baptismal date with Andrew, Oct. 29th! So that should
work out well! We taught a man named Jeff last week with a member named
Brother Glassford which was a great idea to bring him! He really helped
Jeff understand the things w were teaching! Rita canceled on us this
week.. she was feeling sick... so hopefully she feels better this week
and we can teach her!! that would be good! Other than that we have some
potential-Investigators we are trying to start teaching, and a part
member-less-active/active family we are trying to start working with!
The father, Abdur, has been on and off investigating for many years. His
wife (the member) and him stay home on Sundays to watch the sick kids,
but the healthy ones come to church! ha He is a good example to his
wife, or so she says, and seems very ready to accept the gospel, he
pretty much just needs to be baptized an come to church more often! His
oldest daughter is almost 8 and is REALLY excited to be baptized! She
wants him to baptize her, and he very well could! So the circumstances
are just perfect! We are going to try and start that up.. should work
out! So that is the summary of the work here in Warrenton! we are trying
to get the work going a bit faster!
Preparation Days here are a bit slow... We are out in the
country, so we are pretty far from anything. We usually just shop for
groceries, e-mail, and play basketball inside the carpeted gym in our
church with ourselves or the other elders in our ward! other than that..
it is pretty slow! but that is alright! We get stuff done the rest of
the week, and "P-days" are comparatively unimportant! Oh! A few weeks
ago I bought "safety color green" hooded sweatshirt! So I am visible
when I run in the morning! hahaha so that was fun! it is pretty cool! I
enjoy it! All is well in Missouri! Have a great week! ;)
Elder Ford
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