Week 14 - We have someone committed to baptism!

This week has been pretty fast. Transfers was a couple weeks ago and we got new English Elders in our area and they are giving us SO many referrals on the Spanish people they find which is awesome! One of them is named J. and we have only been able to teach her once, but it went really well! We brought a member with us to teach her and they got along really well, and then at the end of the lesson we committed her to get baptized on Jan 17. I pray that she will continue to have the desires to continue on this path and find the happiness that this brings.

We talked to a guy who had an interesting van (picture below) and he seemed pretty happy about his religious beliefs. He tried to talk to us about the "Holy Ghost" baptism. And then he asked what differentiated us from other churches and we started talking to him about how we have a prophet. He was blown away haha.

I got your packages! Thanks mom! I also really love the little book of testimonies from the missionaries from our ward. That was super nice and it was great to read through them all. 

I actually got pretty bad at basketball since I left haha. It might be because I didn't really play it in the MTC much. We do play basketball with members/non-members and other missionaries every Tuesday which is a lot of fun. 

I love that scripture you shared from Mosiah. It's really similar to one of my favorite chapters in Isaiah ch 53. I love reading about the Atonement and how much we owe to our Lord and Savior. 

I'm glad to hear that Zach enjoyed the XC season.   I too noticed that my favorite part about the XC team were all the people on the team and the great environment it was. I really wish I could be playing with Zach on that Jr. Jazz team! Oh man I miss that dingus.

We have our Mission Christmas Conference on Thursday. I'm not really sure what that will be like but I think we're having a little Christmas party after that. And we're having a branch Christmas party on the 20th. It should be fun :) 

I love you all and I'm looking forward to talking to you in 10 days :)

Thank you for all the support! 

Love,

Elder Thayne

An interesting van we saw a few weeks ago.  

pretty exciting photos this week - lights on our balconey

Decorations on our window...yes that is Elder Schoeneman's head!