Nov 7th (two months down)

WOW our boy is really growing.  I think he broke a record for letter length.  As you can read for yourself, he is adjusted well and enjoying the work.

 

To everyone back home,

 

It is hard to believe that I have been out here two months already.  I am loving it out here in Ohio and am getting the hang of the work.  Last Wednesday, we had some Jehovah's Witnesses tract into our apartment.  We were on companion exchanges in the 4-Pad, that makes things interesting because we stay in the same apartment and your companion is still there.  During our companionship study, Elder Brooks and I here talking in the main part of the apartment.  When we go out , we find Elders Turner and Smith talking with two women on the porch.  When we walk out, they are not quite sure what to say other than "Oh, there are four of you." When they saw our name tags and figured out we were Mormon missionaries, they were taken back a bit, but when they saw four of us they really freaked out.  I am loving the work out here and all the people.  We have three solid investigators that are looking like they will be baptized and that I am very excited for.  The first one is Josh and he was going to be baptized not too long ago, but his parents were out of town and he wanted them to be there and we are working on setting up a date for him to be baptized on.  The second is a woman named Paulie who absolutely loves my companion, every time we have taught her there has been a different missionary.  The first time was Elder Kirk and I, The second time was Elder Turner and I, and the third time it was Elder Turner and Elder Smith.  The last time she told them that she did not remember Elder Kirk or me, but that there was something about Elder Turner that every time he talked made her think that she should listen to him.  The third one is Malita, we met her while tracting and gave her a Book of Mormon, a Restoration pamphlet, and a Plan of Salvation pamphlet.  We tried calling her the night before our next appointment and we got a message saying that we had a wrong number.  When we showed up the next day, we were about ten minutes late and when we knocked on the door, she answered the door and said she was just about to call us to find out if we were coming.  From the time we first met her and our appointment she had read all of the Plan of Salvation pamphlet and also the additional study scriptures in the back and she ended up teaching us all about the Plan of Salvation.  When we extended a conditional baptismal commitment she was very excited and eager. I am loving the people out here and am excited to find out about the changes that are going to start taking place that President Nelson is going to start implementing.

 

Love you all

 

Elder Richard Rawlings