Well we had a great week for teaching and if every week was like this last one we would have a baptism every week! Did ya'll know that 80 percent of investigators who attend a baptism before there own will get baptized?! That means if I get 10 investigators to come to e baptism then 8 of them will be baptized! This ward is so much help. I am almost certain this is the best ward on the planet! they are always there and willing to help with anything we need, and are very missionary minded!
Okay this is a random story but I met a pretty neat guy on Sunday. His name was Jimmy if I remember right. He is riding his one speed bamboo bicycle through all 50 states! He started in San Diego and was in Mississippi yesterday. He was a member of the4 church and that is how we found him haha we found this guy sleeping in a sleeping bag outside of the church building this morning. He is super hard core about everything and seems to me to be a really cool guy. I honestly thing that it is a stupid thing to be doing in general for me anyways but oh well. He was a seminary teacher and then went into doing micro loans for people in third world countries. I think that it would be fun to do just because all the cool people that you get to meet. He has a website bamboocyclist.com anyways that all about him i guess I just thought that was a cool person to meet and be able to know i guess haha
Alright now back to the missionary work! We had four people at the bishops twins baptism and then taught a man named Benny who is way legit. He is going against his entire family who is southern baptist to the core! in order to fin out for himself if this might be true. We also had a family reactivate themselves and they have 3 children that we need to teach and baptize so that lucky huh? 3 already set up for us. Tim is still looking solid for the 23rd of this month and Jared I am not sure we haven't seen him in about two weeks, but I think he should be solid too.
Let me say that the ward is what makes an area successful or not and keeps people at church. If all of the people here in the south were still active they would have a temple in Jackson, MS. It ust irritates me that people don't go to church because they don't want to drive that far or wake up that early! I mean I was the same way i guess haha. Help you missionaries! Tracting works but for the amount of houses to knock and the actual success you see out of it is minimal. The success comes from the ward and there willingness to share the restored gospel with their friends and family.
Oh and Transfers are on the first Tuesday of May. So even though i am certain that i won't be going anywhere we never know so refrain from sending letters around that week until I send out an e-mail like this saying that i will be in Petal still. Oh and if you don't intend on writing me once a week but rather one a month then send it to the mission office or home haha i am not sure which but you can ask my mother and she will know.
I will actually write down some of the stories i have for next week but my hands are tired and i have to go play football with my p-day haha
I love ya'll and remember that his church is the restored church of Jesus Christ and nothing will bring you more joy than feasting upon the words of Christ and doing the basics :)
Love,
Elder Blomquist
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