Week 3 in Dallas March 23, 2015

Elder Baldridge and Elder Watson at a dinner appointment

Hello everyone! This week has been fairly good. Elder Watson has been feeling much better, so that helped a lot. We were able to actually be out doing something most of the time. We did have a lot of lessons fall through this week, but that is nothing I didn't expect.  Most of it is understandable, but it still kinda stinks.

D came to a baptism of Saturday of a little girl in our ward, and enjoyed that. She also came to church, which was good. L was not able to make it to either, but I think she will be okay. We have a lesson with her tonight, so we will see how it goes.

It is definitely hard having 4 hours of study a day (personal, companion, language, and training, all an hour each). It's not hard for me to focus, that part is fine. But it is hard to get as much done when we have 2 hours less than normal missionaries. So that is interesting. When we aren't studying or in lessons, we normally just walk around and try to talk to people or try to do service. They have tracted most of the area before, so we don't do much door knocking, although maybe we should do more...

This week we are trying to develop a program to get members more involved. Basically we want to set up a mission plan for each family, so they have goals and stuff to work toward, and so we can follow up with them each week. I think it will be good for members, and will also help us a lot.

This week I just want to stress the importance of member missionary work. You know it's important, but you never know how important until you are on your mission and you need the members. We can all do more, in little ways, to help the missionaries. We know the people in our town, and they don't. And it's a lot less intimidating if a friend asks someone to learn more than if a random missionary does. So, set goals for missionary work, and help the missionaries!! They need it. And remember, that all the friends and people you associate with need the gospel in their lives too! They just don't know it yet.

So, we will be working on that here, and you should work on it there haha. Anyway, good luck with everything this week. I miss you and love you and am praying for all of you!

Elder Baldridge

Getting ready to play disc golf on Pday