Hello
friends and family, I hope everyone had a Happy New Year! I am looking forward
to see what this year brings. Everyday is another day where we have the chance
to strengthen our faith in Jesus Christ and become more like Him and every day
we do that will be a good day. I am really excited for this new year. This
whole year I have the chance to be serving the Lord in this wonderful place of
India. I continually feel blessed every day no matter what happens.
Speaking
of new things, I received the long awaited transfer call from mission president
on Friday. Here is how it happened starting from the beginning. I woke up with
Elder Tolbert just like a normal day in the mission. We got up at 6:30 and worked
out, made breakfast, showered, got dressed, and started studying and planning
our day out. As we started planning, We had a lot of appointments set for the
day! We were to meet with 5 people so we had a pretty full day but we had some
free time between about noon-3:30 and we couldn't schedule an appointment.
Nobody would answer their phone or they were unavailable during that time. So,
we went on with our day and go out for our appointments. After our first one,
we get a phone call from President Mortensen and he told me that I will be
getting a new companion named Elder Rajendran, who is straight from the MTC and
I will be training. He then told me I need to go pick him up from the airport
at 2. The exact time we had no appointments on our busy day. We didn't have to
cancel with anyone! Okay, this is something small and you can call it a
coincidence if you want but God didn't allow us to schedule anything during
those few hours so we could go to the airport to pick up Elder Rajendran. God
is directing His work here in the mission field no doubt. I know without a
doubt that this is God's true church on the Earth today and He is directing my
work.
The
people here are awesome and super talented especially when it comes to
decorating or art. They like to create masterpieces out of chalk on the ground
in front of their houses! I took a picture of a few of the best ones and one
that specifically stood out to me because it says, "Happy New Year
2009" Someone is stuck in the past about 10 years. Maybe we will knock
their door and ask if they know where they are. hahahah. We also saw a dead rat
this week which was crazy, it was so big!! Well, nothing else too crazy
happened this week. Thank you everyone for the support and prayers. I am so
grateful for all of you.
Some
good things that happened this week: we taught this young man named Arjun. He
is the one who rocks it on the guitar. He is super good. We taught him about
the restoration of the gospel of Jesus Christ. we taught him about the Holy
Ghost and in the lesson he says, "my holy ghost is telling me that what we
are talking about is true. It feels good!" He is super awesome and such a
good dude. He is only like 14 years old and super humble.
We are teaching a couple named Dinesh and Sunita. They have two cute daughters that love to play with me! Anyway, we have taught them almost everything and every lesson with them is super good. This week we answered questions about how to recognize the spirit when it is telling you something. We read Moroni chapter 7:12-13 with her and helped as best as possible. The spirit was strong and they said that they are waiting for the feeling or the "urge" to be baptized. So, I invited them to pray about it and ask God if it is something that they should do.
Another awesome lady is Vinitha. She has known the missionaries for longer than I have been here. She is a super nice lady and everything but wants to be completely sure that she is doing the right thing. We helped her with a concern she had about feeling stressed out about little things in life and I pulled out a string that i made one morning while studying the eternal plan. It is a long string with a super tiny ribbon in the middle. I said to imagine that the string goes forever in both directions and the little ribbon in the middle is Life on earth and before is pre earth life and afterwards is Life after death. Don't worry about the little things because God has a perfect plan in the great view of things. He loves you and knows you personally. We shared some scriptures and the spirit was super strong. She said that our "message really touched her and it feels like there were angels sitting right in front of her delivering the message." It was super awesome.
These are a few stories of good things this week and to be honest, when you are focused on Christ the good things always out weigh the bad. So I can't even complain!!
We are teaching a couple named Dinesh and Sunita. They have two cute daughters that love to play with me! Anyway, we have taught them almost everything and every lesson with them is super good. This week we answered questions about how to recognize the spirit when it is telling you something. We read Moroni chapter 7:12-13 with her and helped as best as possible. The spirit was strong and they said that they are waiting for the feeling or the "urge" to be baptized. So, I invited them to pray about it and ask God if it is something that they should do.
Another awesome lady is Vinitha. She has known the missionaries for longer than I have been here. She is a super nice lady and everything but wants to be completely sure that she is doing the right thing. We helped her with a concern she had about feeling stressed out about little things in life and I pulled out a string that i made one morning while studying the eternal plan. It is a long string with a super tiny ribbon in the middle. I said to imagine that the string goes forever in both directions and the little ribbon in the middle is Life on earth and before is pre earth life and afterwards is Life after death. Don't worry about the little things because God has a perfect plan in the great view of things. He loves you and knows you personally. We shared some scriptures and the spirit was super strong. She said that our "message really touched her and it feels like there were angels sitting right in front of her delivering the message." It was super awesome.
These are a few stories of good things this week and to be honest, when you are focused on Christ the good things always out weigh the bad. So I can't even complain!!
Love,
Elder Baker
It
only allows so many pictures so if you want to see all of my pictures and
videos, you can see them in this folder at this link!
Happy New Year!
Cycling in India
Happy New Year 2009!!!!!!
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