Glad to hear that everything is
going well at home! Everything here is great as well. Still allergic to
cats, but I prayed that fewer people would have cats that we visited
this week and it has been working out pretty well. lol Guess God answers
even silly prayers :).
We are teaching a lot of people and always have a
lot of lessons and visits, but we only have one progressing
investigator currently (please pray that more of our investigators will
begin to progress). Her name is Viola, she is in her 50s and suffers
from R.A. really badly. She was married to an LDS man when she was young
for several years but it ended badly and she has not had anything to do
with the church since. She lives around the corner from grandma and the
last missionaries in the area found her. She is reading the Book of
Mormon and sometimes we just read along with her. She says that the BoM
answers all of the questions she has had about the Bible her whole life.
She believes that it is true and thinks that she will be baptized
eventually but does not want to be pressured. I know that she will be
ready soon though! I love this work!
I have started reading in the Old
Testament as well as starting the Book of Mormon over for my personal
study, there is so much that we can learn from the scriptures that I
never realized before!! I feel like in my life I have always had times
where I just need to be quiet and listen and learn and I have times
where I can be bold and outspoken. I feel that right now is a time in my
mission and in my life to be quiet and to learn all that I can so that
I when the time for me to be bold comes I will be ready. I love
teaching but most of the time I feel that I learn more form the people
and lessons than they do. I guess that is just a side effect of
missionary work.
You asked about my days, so on a regular day we wake up
and run and study and get ready and then go out to work. We usually
have a dinner with members around 5 or 6 and then we work
some more until 9 and then go home and plan for the next day and go to
bed. It is pretty structured but changes every day because we are always
somewhere different. We only sleep somewhere else when we are in Vale
(usually only 1 or 2 nights out of the week) and we stay with a family
there. They are the Romans's and they have 5 little kids and a baby on
the way. The remind me so much of our family when everyone was little
and cute and crazy! We will be staying with them tonight. On p-day, we
do normal studies and stuff in the morning and then we clean our
apartment, get ready and drive to Ontario, OR to shop and email and play
B-ball with the elders in our zone. It is pretty fun and relaxing. I
love you and send my love to everyone else too!
Your Sister,
Madison Baker
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