This week was pretty good, but kinda slow. Most of the students were gone for Thanksgiving, which kind of makes the work in the YSA Wards pretty difficult...... but overall the week was pretty solid! We had a lot of time to go tracting and find new investigators, which was awesome with that brisk Wyoming wind! On Tuesday we were on exchanges with some other Elders and Elder Allen, Elder Ricks and I went tracting in some apartments. The second door we knocked we ran into an inactive member named Bryce, he absolutely loved us! Bryce let us in and we talked to him and his wife Charlene. We asked if we could come back and teach them a lesson, and they said they wanted to feed us! We had dinner with them on Sunday. The students are really good at feeding us here! We get fed almost every single night, it's honestly amazing.
Let's skip to Thanksgiving. We had Thanksgiving dinner with the Allen's. The two Allen daughters go to the University of Wyoming, so there parents and her brother came down here for Thanksgiving Break. Their family is so awesome, and dinner was pretty good! At first the Dad didn't act very happy to have to share their dinner, but he warmed up to us pretty quick! It was nice to have Thanksgiving with a family! It made Thanksgiving pretty awesome. Later that day we taught our investigator Chris Ugo. He is such an incredible guy! We taught him about the Plan of Salvation, and he said "I don't know how to explain it, but I feel like I've heard this before. It just makes sense." I totally know that he is right! As spirits we were taught of Heavenly Fathers plan for us. We explained this to him and he totally agreed. Chris is honestly such a prepared person for this Gospel! We invited him to come to church this Sunday and he did. He is right on the path towards Baptism, and I couldn't be more excited for him!
I had a faith strengthening experience while tracting on Friday. We ran into so many diverse people. We ran into atheists, muslims, baptists, and a lot of asians. But what strengthened my testimony was when we ran into these two anti-Mormon guys with Amish beards. They were very cruel, mean, insulting, and mocked us pretty bad. So all we could do was just bare testimony to them and leave. We all didn't have a very good feeling afterwards. Elder Clemence said that we should say a prayer. As soon as we finished the prayer, I felt those bad feelings leave me and they were replaced with the warmest feeling ever! I know that God loves all of us, and that he watches out for all of His children!
The rest of the week was pretty slow, we went tracting in 4 different apartment complex's and found a few people who wanted to learn more. We have some return appointments with a couple in the Cowboy apartments, and two roommates in the Campus Habitat apartments! So we will see if they are interested this next week. We also contacted some investigators we have never talked to before. Most of them were out of town, but some said we could come and teach them this next week as well! The work in the YSA Wards is awesome, we teach a lot of people and are always busy. It helps so much when there is a lot of work to to! This Sunday we already started singing Christmas Music. I honestly love Christmas music so much! It is going to be so awesome doing missionary work this Christmas season, I can't wait!
Well I hope you all had a fantastic Thanksgiving! I am thankful for all of you that support me, and I'm so grateful for the Gospel of Jesus Christ! Hope you have a great week!
Love,
Elder Bailey
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