Parker - November 13

Hey Everybody! 

We had a full mission conference. Yeah. It was insane. there were so many missionaries there. But it was also pretty fun. Elder Christensen and Elder Bragg came with their wives and they each shared a talk. They focused on having the Spirit, which was really great. They focused on really getting to know the Spirit, recognizing it, and following the impressions. I actually really loved it. 

Other than that, not too much happened this week. Well, I don´t know. We´ve really been trying to find new investigators, but it´s been pretty hard. We thought we hit a break last week when we got a couple referrals. So we went to them, they live in a couple of the smaller towns in our area, the first two lived in one fairly close, but it was hard to find them, cuz we don´t have a map of that town and it was hard to find the vague directions. Then we got on a bus and went literally to the middle of nowhere and then called the person to figure out which way to go to get to their house. Aaaaand they answered and said, "Not interested."

Yeeah. It´s been fairly rough. But I think things will pick up soon. Today we have another district activity, of which I will definitely send pics. And yesterday we had a special Sunday where it was entirely focused on missionary work, so I think we´ll have more help from them as time goes on. 

But it´s not all bad news. Saturday, while attempting to visit some of the few investigators we have, we felt impressed to visit some less actives. And turns out that also happening to be visiting them is the member´s best friend since elementary school. And we brought up the Church, and she asked when are the meetings, and she said "oh dang it, I won´t be able to go tomorrow, but next week, I´m gonna make it." and yesterday, While trying to visit an investigator, we found out she wasn´t there. But we had been walking around for a while, so we sat down to rest a bit, and after a few minutes, a man walked out of the house, a member of the family, a little drunk, and he starts talking to us, and he was fairly interested in learning more about Christ and the Bible. He doesn´t live there, and he rarely goes by that house, so it was pretty cool to see that the Lord really is preparing people to receive the gospel, we just have to find them. 

Anyway. yeah, Sorry I don´t have much this week, I don´t have too much time, cuz we got to get to that district activity in about an hour. 

I love you all, 

Elder Blaylock