Slow and steady wins the race

This week has been good. We put 2 people on date and one is getting baptized Saturday. The other one is a super golden investigator. Every time she sees us she is just excited to learn more. She said "I feel like the Holy Ghost is usually quiet and tells me things to do but this time it's seems to be screaming at me to join this church". When we about ready to leave she said "tell me more about baptism". We told her we would explain everything she wanted to know on our next visit. The one getting baptized this weekend we had been teaching just to help her she is 8 and her 9th birthday is the day of her baptism. It's also really cool because here hasn't been a convert baptism in this Ward in over a year. Everyone is pretty excited. This area slowly seems to be working out. I feel like we have a lot of member trust in our wards just not very many members giving us referrals and doing their part. We have been trying to help them by giving them specific assignments like talking to their neighbor this week instead of just find someone for us to teach. Elder Watts and I are doing good. We are soon gonna figure something out to help out this area. It's just taking some time. Slow but steady wins the race haha. Love you all

A picture text!!

I got this picture text from a member tonight "Thank you for sending your son a mission,  It was wonderful to have him in our home tonight.  What a great missionary"

Thanks for the Birthday wishes!!

Thanks for all the birthday wishes! My birthday was great and I wouldn't have wanted to spend it anywhere else! I love my mission and helping people change their lives. I love this gospel and all it has to offer. I love the Lord and want to serve him the rest of my life no matter how hard the calling may be! As far our area is going. I think it's picking up quite a bit. Members are actually wanting to talk to their neighbors and strangers. We got a new Ward missionary in one of wards also. He is a super good missionary and loves to go out with us. Our stake conference was really good and one of our investigators came to it. She said it was exactly what she needed to hear and it was! I felt like every talk in one of the sessions was for her. And one more thing is we talked to one of our bishops about a girl being baptized on the 30th. He said it was her birthday and she is turning nine. Which means she is a convert baptism and we have to take over and get her interviewed. She really wants to be baptized on her birthday but we aren't quite sure she is ready. We have been teaching her off and on. But this week we figured out that the bishop wants us to take over and we are meeting with her Tuesday. We are going to go over the baptismal questions and see where she is at spiritually and see if she could get interviewed this Saturday or if she needs more teaching. If she's good to go Saturday then that would be awesome! We are going to try and work with her a lot this week. I love you all! Have a great week and stay on the straight and narrow. It makes life way easier. 

A turtle I bought on the REZ 

Down in the Valley for MLC meeting

Elder Lange's first birthday in the mission field!

Elder Lange's companion had a "surprise dinner" for him at a members house.  The sweet lady made a fun spaghetti and meatball cake!  

(This is an excerpt from a letter he sent me [mom] explaining his birthday surprise)

 "Yeah I had a good birthday! The Lords family and Elder Watts are pretty awesome. So our dinner canceled in the middle of the week but Elder Watts didn't tell me. He secretly set up a dinner with the Lords. Long story short. We got out of a lesson. He had the Lords call him and pretend to be our dinner canceling. I said well we could try and go to the Lords to eat. Elder Watts was like alright we will go there. So we show up to the Lords and the husband answers and is surprised to see us. He invited us in and said what's up? We told him our dinner canceled and we were wondering if we could get something to eat there. He was like yeah, I think she has something cooking up. They are all out back feed he animals though. Usually it only takes one person to feed the animals so I was thinking that they had a lot of things to do and asked if they needed help. I turned around to see if Elder Watts was following me and the whole family was right behind me and threw a bunch of balloons at me. It was super crazy. I wasn't expecting it at all. Anyways they cooked me pasta because I like pasta and made me a pretty sweet cake that was really good. Before all of that it didn't really feel any different than a normal day. We spent the day weekly planning which takes like 3-5 hours. Anyways, pretty crazy. I did get my package. And loved the watch. Good choice."

Life is Good!

Life is good! We had a baptism this week. I feel like our work is somewhat picking up. It has been pretty slow lately. We had one investigator that was doing really good and want to join the church but is just afraid of "getting hurt." Her last church just kind of abandoned her and told her she wasnt welcome anymore so she doesnt want that to happen again. She has felt like she needed to join this church for a long time but her family also doesnt support her in it. Anyways she was just doing super good with the lessons and getting to know the members in our church but her husband and her got divorced which meant she needed to move. It was pretty sad to see her move to a new area. She recently has spent about to weeks moving and decided that she was too far away from her kids. She loved our ward and how people treated her so she is finding a house to rent in our area. She is best friends with the Relief Society president. Our RSP goes over to her house and talks with her about a lot of things. She took her to the General Womens Session and takes her to all her classes each week. This week was super cool though. She said she was coming to church, which she hadnt been in two weeks. She showed up late so she sat in the foyer. After sacrament though she came up to the RSP and I and just said like its so good to see you guys! Are you ready to go to class? It touched my heart that day I as I sat in class next to her that she wanted to learn so bad. She was asking us to go to class instead of the other way around. There is a strong love that she has for our ward and a love that our ward has for her. I just felt a super small part of Heavenly Fathers love that he has for each of us. It was so obvious to me at that moment that our Heavenly Father has a huge love for each of us. We are going to try and get her ready to be baptized for April 30!

The baptism

Playing a little disc golf

This is when we ate some rabbit stew...haha