This past week has been pretty busy.
Tuesday,
we went and saw Don Tsosie, a less active man, and visited with him and
shared a message. He was very receptive, and actually came to church
yesterday. That was cool. We also saw Betty Bigboy, and talked with her
for a while. We shared the Sermon on the Mount with her, and she really
enjoyed that. Then we saw Leroy Boy and we helped him take the tires off
of his old Jeep. He has a bad back, so we help him out as much as we
can. It was nice to be able to help him. The rest of the day was pretty
slow, because people are getting their end of summer trips out of the
way, and also... It's Rodeo Season!
On
Wednesday, we had exchanges. Our district leader Elder Butterfield came
out to Bluff, and we had a pretty good day. We went out to the Sam's and
had the Baptismal interview with Niyah. And prepared her for Saturday.
She was nervous at first, but answered all of the questions like they
were nothing! It was awesome! After that, we tracted Red Mesa Rd, more
specifically a housing group out there called Yellowman's Camp. We
knocked a few houses, and no one was home. We finally ran into Kathleen
Begay, we gave her a Book of Mormon, and she told us to come back some
other time. It was pretty neat. After that, we taught the Laughing kids
about Repentance and Baptism. We did the rocks in the backpack object
lesson, and they liked that. After the Laughing's, I had a bitter-sweet
experience with one of our investigators, Dwayne Lameman. He is such a
good guy and is really trying to change his life. We taught him about
prayer, and we asked him if he wanted to get baptized, he said, "Yes!"
Then we found out that he had recently gotten a job out of state, like
in Missouri or Mississippi, I don't remember which. Anyway, he said he
was leaving on Saturday to start training and 3 months of school. Its
hard to see him go, but it will be better for him. He is really excited
for the job. He told us to keep in touch with him, and he said he wanted
to still meet with the missionaries when he gets out there. We gave him
a Mormon.org card and told him he can request missionaries to meet with
him from there, he seemed pretty excited about that. I'm gonna miss
him. After that, we taught the Begay family, Paxton Pearlphena, and her
brother, sister, and mom. They were really receptive to the message that
we shared about the reasons for baptism. The mom asked us about the
authority needed to baptize, and she was really interested. We hope they
progress more. They are a great family. We came back in from the
Reservation, and went and saw the Gruettes. Gene is a Recent convert,
and Jackie is a member. They are so fun to talk to. Gene is just a cool
guy. He invited us to play pool with him next p-day, so we might take
him up on that offer.
Thursday, we had Zone
Training in Blanding, and it was good. Elder Middleton and I trained on
'Goals'. Our entire training consisted of Elijah's goal to refute the
prophets of Baal in 1 Kings. It was super cool. We feel like everyone
got a lot out of it. After Zone Training, we went out to Lameman's Camp,
which is a housing division out on the reservation. We met a less
active member named Luci Begay. She was happy to see us and so were her
Grand kids. She is having surgery this week and rolled her ankle the day
before we visited her. She asked for a blessing and we gave her one.
She felt more at peace after that.
Man, Friday
was tough. We did weekly planning, and went out to try people after. We
tried 12 houses (that's a lot for the rez because it's so spread out)
and nobody was home!! So that's how that went.
Saturday, we had to fill up the Font for the baptism. I'll send you pictures next week. We had the baptism at 12:00 and it went really smooth. We went out to try people, but it was the same as Friday.
Sunday
was good. I had the opportunity to confirm Niyah. It was a cool
experience. We went out to the Sam's that afternoon, and taught Damien
the Restoration. after that, we played football, and I ripped my
pants!!! It's a good thing that there are gifted seamstresses at the
Fort, that can fix it with no problem! It was a mighty sweet catch
though! We had to call it a day after that.
Today,
we have just been doing laundry, and we came up to Blanding to chill at
the ZL's house. It's been fun. Anyway, I'll have pictures next week!
Talk to you then. Ayoo' Aniinishni.
Hagoonee',
Elder Breinholt
Missionary
New Mexico Farmington Mission
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