9/11/18 | Heavenly Father is mindful of each of us, boy do I love Him!

What a week!  I love being a missionary!!! Man time flies, so crazy that it is September 11th!  Well, this week went great.  We had exchanges with Elder Treanor and Elder Fronk this last Wednesday, and they went great!  I was with Elder Treanor.  It was a great day and a great exchange!  We decided we were going to do a bit of street contacting after dinner, so we went and walked some busy streets of Casper.  Well, they were usually busy, but they were kind of dead.  We talked to the people we came across, but none were super interested.  At about 8:45, we saw this guy sitting in his truck on the side of the road.  We walked past him and both of us felt like we definitely needed to talk with this guy.  We approached his window and waived hello.  He rolled in down, and we talked with him.  He was not too interested, but Elder Treanor saw he had a camera around his neck.  That struck up a conversation.  When it was about to end, Elder Treanor asked if he would take our pictures.  He said he would for sure!  He got out and actually talked with us for another 45 minutes!  It was amazing how just been friendly and asking for him to take our picture, open some doors!  At the end of our conversation, after a lot of laughs and then testifying to him of what we knew to be true, we invited him to attend church.  He told us, “Well I can’t believe it, but I’m actually going to come and check it out!”  We hope and pray he does!  How amazing!  He took a few pics of us, and then we were off.  It is amazing to see the people we are able to touch when we put forth the effort, even when it was not very “busy.” God still provides a way for all of His children to hear about the Restored Gospel of Jesus Christ!!  Even thought this man may not join the church anytime soon, we helped him feel the spirit.  He will remember that experience someday to when he is completely ready to change.  Missions are truly incredible!
    We had a lesson with Mark and Debbie again this past week.  We read Alma 42 with them.  They are starting to read more again on their own.  We invited them to church, but they couldn’t make it once again this week.  It has been a frustrating time teaching them, not seeing the progress too much, but hopefully someday they will come around!  They are great people, who have a great desire to change.  All on God’s timetable!  Right after that, we had a lesson with a inactive member, Sarah, who we got in contact with a few weeks ago.  We talked to her about The Gospel of Jesus Christ, with an emphasis and focus on faith.  We read Alma 32:21, 26-30 with her, and had a great discussion about how we can each individually develop and grow our faith in our Savior Jesus Christ.  She asked us if she should focus her studies in the Book of Mormon, and we said that would be great!  We invited her to read daily from The Book of Mormon and to pray daily as well.  She said she would, so that is awesome!  She hopes to attend church in a week or two!  It has been great to see her desire to come back to church since she reached out to us.  So amazing!
     We had a bunch of member visits, teaching families about missionary work, this past week!  We also met and taught Roger and Jerri again, a member and a non member we’ve been working with.  They are doing good, coming to church every week (except one since they were out of town) since we’ve been meeting with them!  That has been cool to see their knowledge in the gospel grow, and their desire to meet with us grow as well.  I love them!  We hope and pray they may continue to attend church, and have a desire to meet with us continually!
     One of the most exciting lessons we’ve had this past week were with Ken and his wife Nicole.  We taught them two more times, and reviewed the Baptismal interview questions with him.  He is so prepared and humble.  He understood all we have taught him, and has committed to follow all of the gospel standards and commandments.  It has been cool to see not only Ken, but his wife change for the better as we’ve taught them!  They are both progressing so well.  Ken had his Baptismal Interview yesterday, and is all ready to go this Thursday!  What a miracle it has been to have Ken and Nicole come into our lives so that we could teach them.  Wow!  Can’t believe this is all happening so fast.  We are looking forward to Thursday night for Ken’s baptism, we can’t wait to see him make those first covenants with God!  We are so grateful that they both came into our lives, what a tender mercy from our loving Heavenly Father!
      We had dinner last Friday with Angel, Jessica, and Jessica’s boyfriend.  Angel is the little 9 year old girl we have been working with.  It was a great dinner.  We had a great lesson about the Atonement, reading from Alma 7:10-13.  She hasn’t attended church in awhile, because they’ve been very busy with different things, but hopefully she starts attending soon!  We’re grateful that God sent us to talk with them on the street next to our apartment so that they could start progressing in the gospel.  Heavenly Father hand is in all the aspects of our lives, most the time He goes unnoticed.  We always need to remember the small and simple blessing that he blesses us with every day.  Speaking of this topic, I am grateful to be a missionary.  This experience has blessed me now and for eternity.  I love Heavenly Father, Jesus Christ, and the Holy Ghost.  They are all so incredible!
      Yesterday, we were determined to visit and contact a ton of people with interest.  We didn’t get to talk to a lot of them, haha but it provided us a way to talk with a bunch of random people we wouldn’t have been able to talk with otherwise.  Even though we didn’t see much “success” in finding more people to teach, we know we made an impact in someone yesterday through all the rejection!
      Well, a lot of you may know this.  My time is far spent...... this is very crazy to think about how two years of hard work, studying, preparing, sweat, rejection, enduring both hot and cold days, disappointments, daily fatigue, love, happiness, hardships, and difficulty, has been two of the most joyful years of my entire life!  There is nothing like serving the Lord and doing His work!  I’ve learned so much throughout my mission, I can’t even begin to write them, it would take up most of this email!  Through all of the things I’ve learned, one things stands above them all.  I know that Jesus Christ is my Savior.  He is your Savior.  He suffered, bled, and died for us, so we can live with God again.  He loved us enough to perform the Atonement, so that we could become perfect like our Father in Heaven.  It was the most loving act ever performed, and I’m so grateful for it.  I can’t express how much I love Him and my Heavenly Father.  I know that The Book of Mormon is truly the word of God.  If anyone doubts this, please prayerfully study it with an open heart!  If you study and ponder about it, you will feel the Holy Ghost touch your heart!  Every time I read from its pages, I feel the spirit testify to me that it is truly Christ’s Doctrine!  I know that Joseph Smith is truly the prophet that God called to restore the same church that Jesus Christ himself established when He was on the earth.  I love and respect the prophet Joseph with all my heart.  I know that we have a living prophet, President Russell M. Nelson.  He receives revelation and guidance for the whole world!  He is God’s mouthpiece.   All of these things I know to be true were kindled and are continually being fed by a book, The Book of Mormon!  What a blessing it has been to teach people about this joy and happiness I’ve experienced my whole life!  I’m grateful for the people that Heavenly Father has sent in my path for my companions and I to reach out to.  All things are done by and through our Father in Heaven and His son, Jesus Christ!  I hope each of you feel how much love I have for this gospel as you’ve read my weekly emails!  Because I truly do! :)  There has been a scripture running through my mind the last transfer, it is 2 Timothy 4:1-7, which states,

1 I charge thee therefore before God, and the Lord Jesus Christ, who shall judge the quick and the dead at his appearing and his kingdom;

2 Preach the word; be instant in season, out of season; reprove, rebuke, exhort with all longsuffering and doctrine.

3 For the time will come when they will not endure sound doctrine; but after their own lusts shall they heap to themselves teachers, having itching ears;

4 And they shall turn away their ears from the truth, and shall be turned unto fables.

5 But watch thou in all things, endure afflictions, do the work of an evangelist, make full proof of thy ministry.

6 For I am now ready to be offered, and the time of my departure is at hand.

7 I have fought a good fight, I have finished my course, I have kept the faith:

       My mission has changed me, it has refined me, and it has defined what I will be for the rest of my life.  I hope to continue and become the disciple I need to be for my Savior Jesus Christ!  I may be released as a full time missionary soon, but I will never stop doing missionary work!  I want to continue what has brought me such an insurmountable amount of happiness and joy for the past two years, for the rest of my life!  The Gospel of Jesus Christ is the way we can feel this pure joy and happiness, and I know as we all love the teaching of Jesus, and live by them each day, we can all find happiness, peace, comfort, and joy in an ever changing world!  I want to thank you all for supporting me in this endeavor.  I’ve been blessed with the best mission President and wife, President and Sister McMurray, the best parents, siblings, grandparents, extended family, and dear friends who have helped me through these two years.  Thank you.  I am so blessed to have each of you in my life!  I love you all so much!  I will see you all shortly, but for now I am still Elder Bailey and have a calling to finish!  Have a wonderful rest of your week!  

Love, 

Elder Bailey 

Pics:

1-2: helped a member get a coyote tail off of a hide he is preparing to be tanned!  (Smelled like straight up death......)

3: alleyway in downtown Casper, while we were street contacting! 

4: said bye to Scott Saulnier!  

9/4/18 | What a fantastic week to be a servant of the Lord! :)

 Well let’s just get into the week!  Last Tuesday night we went and contacted a referral we received from a member of another ward here in Casper.  The man was so happy to see us!  He is in a wheel chair due to a disorder, and has become interested in learning more again about our church!  He has been making some business deals with members of the church from Utah, and he was so amazed and impressed with how honest they all were, so he felt inspired to reach out to his member friend to send us over!  We talked with him, set up a time to meet, and he asked us if he could have a copy of The Book of Mormon!  Of course we handed one to him, and we invited him to read from it and pray to ask God to know if it is true.  He said he would!  He pushed our lesson back to yesterday.  We showed up at his house and he didn’t answer!  Too bad, but we’ll get him this week!  I love meeting elect people who are ready to listen and learn!
    Speaking of elect people, Ken is honestly the most elect person to enter into my life as a missionary, no joke!  We taught him last Tuesday, Sunday, and Monday, three times in a week!  Wow!  He is the man who moved from technically Las Vegas, but pretty much Missoula.  (Long story!  So I can’t fit it all in here :). We hadn’t received his record yet from the sisters in Vegas, so we just decided to go over all the lessons anyways.  We taught him The Restoration, The Plan of Salvation, and The Gospel of Jesus Christ over the course of those three lessons!  We tied in a couple commandments while we taught The Gospel of Jesus Christ, so that was good too!  During our first lesson last Tuesday, Ken had mentioned how he wanted Elder Godfrey and I to teach him everything, and work with him up to his baptism.  Ken has previously studied with missionaries since February of this year, so he knows all of the lessons.  We were expecting his record to be full of lessons, but when we finally got it he had only been taught The Restoration (according to the missionaries records, which may be a bit spotty......). We think Ken was taught more, but they forgot to record it.  Anyways, we decided and agreed to teach him all of the lessons anyways!  Sounds like the other missionaries couldn’t meet up with them too often, because Ken knows a ton, but never got baptized.  Since he had met with missionaries, he has had a few spiritual experiences, including one incredible answer to a prayer!  Another cool long story, but it is all summed up with Ken knows the church is true now, and he wants to be baptized!  In our lesson on Sunday, we taught him and invited him to be baptized on September 13th!  (He has Thursday’s off from work, and it worked out so Elder Godfrey and I can both be at his baptism!  Amazing!). He accepted, and we shared a plan with him to help him be ready by then!  He had so many questions that we were able to answer as well.  He has been reading The Book of Mormon a bunch, studied and prayed over all of the Pamphlets, and has kept all the commitments we’ve given him!  He is incredible!  The third lesson went so well!  We had a young man who is leaving on his mission in October as a member present!  Ken understands the gospel, and is so intelligent, it is amazing!  At the end of this lesson, Ken and his wife Nicole, thanked us.  It was one of the most sincere appreciative comments I’ve ever received.  It has been a special experience teaching Ken so far, and we can’t wait to continue to help him on his path to conversion!  What a miracle!
      Last Wednesday we had a priest, who is starting his senior year of high school, come with us for the day!  His name is Devan.  Devan recently joined the church about a year ago.  He joined on his own, his parents aren’t even members!  How amazing is that!?  We picked him up at 8:15, and we had him for his “Micro Mission” as we called it, and it went amazing!  We had great studies, good insights, great practice and role plays,  and a great time doing the work!  We had lunch with Scott, the recent covert, and we taught him another after baptism lesson.  The most special experience we had was while we were Tracting.  We decided to tract in a trailer park near our apartment, and Elder Godfrey and I went first so that we could show Devan how we approach doors.  On his first door he ever knocked on, the lady was busy, but wanted us to come back!  She asked for a copy of The Book of Mormon, and Devan gladly gave it to her!  He was so happy!  And excited because Elder Godfrey and I had both gotten rejected pretty hard, haha!  After another couple times of us all being rejected, and after some time of Tracting, on the last door we planned to knock that day, it was again Devan’s turn to knock, a native women answered,  she said “oh look, it’s the cute Mormon boys!” She was slightly drunk, but not horribly drunk.  We talked with her, and she wasn’t open at all.  After we testified to her about The Book of Mormon, she asked us why bad stuff happens to good people.  Elder Godfrey pulled out Alma 14, and talked about how God has given us all agency, and sometimes good people are hurt due to bad peoples decisions.  She started to cry, and later asked us for a blessing (her grandparents are members.). So we gave her a blessing, and Devan was able to give her a copy of The Book of Mormon and we testified that as she read she would feel peace, comfort, and hope!  She said she would read and pray.  Devan was absolutely stoked!  The rest of our day went well, and he told us and a member family we stopped by for some water, that he did have a stronger desire to serve a mission now!  I surely hope that us being with him helped him!  Elder Godfrey and I fasted and prayed that we would see some amazing experiences, we know God answers our prayers!  :)
      I was able to go on exchanges with Elder Petersen this past week.  He is a good guy, this is his first transfer as a missionary!  We had a great time!  We Tracted (of course:), worked with members, gave a blessing to a Sister missionary who asked for one, set up appointments to work with more members, and had a great lesson with Mark and Debbie!  It was a great day!  I was surprised we didn’t get any comments in our companionship for the day.  Elder Petersen is about 5’ 1”, so it was a good difference between us!  Haha.
      We had our Car Fast/No Drive Day this past Saturday, and we had Mark, the person we are teaching, give us a ride to the other side of town so we could do work in the Casper 9th Ward area.  We visited a bunch of members, and had a lot of success!  We inactive man told us his wife wasn’t ready yet, but when she is he would call us to come and teach his whole family.  We gave him our number, and he was so grateful we had stopped by!  Hope that benefits the work here in the future!  This random guy we talked to on the street, after he rejected us and we asked him if he knew anyone we could reach out to, pointed towards his neighbors house and told us to try them.  We did, and as we introduced ourselves, the lady told us that they were members!  We had missed them on our area book map!  We scheduled a return appointment with them next week! These exact Members turns out to be someone who the 2nd Counselor in the bishopric, my cousin Brother Whitlock, asked us to go try sometime!  Miracle!  So amazing the guy guided us to them, even if he didn’t mean to, the Spirit was definitely guiding him!  Super cool!  We also had some born again Christians poke their head outside of their door and asked why we skipped their house.  They invited us in, and we had a semi friendly conversation about what we believe, and we answered a bunch of their questions!  They didn’t agree with a few things, but we left them with a copy of The Book of Mormon to read and pray about.  They said they’d give it a try, so hopefully they check it out!  That was a first on my mission, to get called into someone’s house to teach them, and it wasn’t contentious!  Haha, amazing!
      Sunday was amazing!  It was a great opportunity because we got to bear our testimonies two times because we are covering two wards.  What a blessing!  The Casper 6th Ward has struggled with supporting us as missionaries, but lately since we started to focus on working with individual families, it has gotten a lot better! Anyways, we had President Davies, the 2nd Counselor in our mission presidency, attend our Fast and Testimony Meeting.  We did not see him until he got up to bear his testimony.  When we saw him, I quickly went up so I could be right after him!  He said some very nice things about us, and testified a strong testimony about missionary work!  After I shared mine, Elder Godfrey shared his.  Then one by one missionaries from the crowd started to come up to share amazing testimonies about missionary work!  Some senior missionaries serving in Martin’s cove, a couple who happened to be attending our sacrament meeting in their way from the MTC to their mission in Minnesota, a couple kids with mission calls, some service missionaries, and some random visitors who had served missions recently.  The Spirit was so strong, it was amazing!  Then a member of the ward council, who we had shared a message with last Wednesday, got up and bore his testimony about how the message we were sharing was amazing, and that if their were any families who hadn’t had us over to share it, they should!  It was such an amazing meeting, and we’ve never felt so much love before in this ward!  Truly a neat experience!  Hopefully this helps the ward in the future, we know it will!  The rest of our meetings were amazing, but that one trumped it all!  I love feeling the spirit!  :) I honestly  couldn’t stop smiling after that meeting!
      In my studies this past week, and Mormon 3:22 stood out to me.  It states,

22 And I would that I could persuade all ye ends of the earth to repent and prepare to stand before the judgment-seat of Christ.

       Now is the time to prepare!  We must do the small things daily and weekly, read our scriptures, pray, Attend Church (partake of the sacrament).  All of these things help us to prepare, and endure to the end!  I hope you all are having a great time feeling the Spirit in your lives!  We can always feel the spirit, especially when we have the Gift of the Holy Ghost!  Do what is necessary to invite the Spirit daily!  Hope you all have a fantastic week!  Good luck Jenna and Mike!  The new baby coming will be so fun!!!! Can’t wait to see pictures of little tiny Emma! :)

Love,

Elder Bailey 

Pics:

1. President and Sister Davies at church! :)

2. Pretty Wyoming sunset!

3. District Preparation Day today!  Elder Fronk and I won the big prizes because we were 1st and 2nd in bowling!  Wooo! 

8/28/18 | Zone Conference! President McMurray is the man!!

  Another great week as a missionary here in Casper Wyoming!  I’m lovin it! We had a great lesson with the random man, Ken, and his wife this past Tuesday.  We talked about what he has learned so far.  We had a great discussion about this, and what the plan is going forward!  Ken wants to continue to progress and learn so he can get baptized and sealed to his wife, who is returning to activity!  How amazing is that?  I mentioned this last week, that they just moved here from Las Vegas, and they just showed up to church last week.  Miracles!  We will be teaching him again tonight again, so that will be awesome!
     I was able to go on exchanges with Elder Fuller this past Wednesday, and we had a pretty good day together!  We did some nice quality service at a thrift shop, and had to help out some other missionaries at a service too.  We had a very strange lesson with some people we’ve been working with as well.  Their son attended, and he has some strange views....... we weren’t able to teach them to effectively, but we are hoping our next lesson goes better.  We went Tracting after dinner, and we were able to find four people with interest, and they all accepted copies of The Book of Mormon!  So awesome!  The last 30 minutes of the day, 8:30-9:00 we didn’t have many people answer, and those who did weren’t too excited about seeing us, but we were grateful for the four people who were nice and interested!  So many blessings!  I love it!
     Elder Godfrey and Elder Fuller had to go practice their musical number, so we met them up at the Morado Building, and the Zone Leaders were there with another set of elders setting up for Zone Conference.  So we helped them out while those guys practiced.  We headed to go and Weekly Plan, and we got a message from Elder Tippetts!  He was in Casper visiting, so he came and said hi to us.  It was so fun!  I was able to meet his parents, and they are just as amazing as I thought they would be!  We had a great visit, and it was so nice that Sister Tippetts sent you guys a Happy Anniversary video from me!  Glad I could wish my wonderful parents a happy anniversary!  Man do I love the Tippett family, they're amazing!  Glad they could say hello to Elder Godfrey and I.
     We had our Zone Conference last Friday, and it was just as amazing as I was expecting!  We had amazing trainings by President and Sister McMurray, as always, and some amazing trainings from the assistants and STL’s. We learned a lot about the importance of Diligence and working with members!  President McMurray shared a General Conference Talk by Elder F. David Stanley from April 1993.  Wow, this was powerful!  If you have time, go find it on the Gospel Library!  Truly amazing!  It is our decision to joyfully endure to the end!  We need to all make that decision and do what is necessary to remain happy in this life!  Overall it was incredible!   Crazy thing is I was asked to give my departing testimony......... wow, how crazy..... but it went very well!  I’m so glad I had the opportunity to bear my testimony to the zone.  We had a nice training from the Zone Leaders in our Zone Breakout session, and they invited us to talk with everyone!  I love that!  I had the chance to see the Bakers from Riverton, they were visiting for our Zone Conference.  It was so fun to see them!  Elder Godfrey and I were the last interviews, so we waited and talked with Sister McMurray until that time came.  Sister McMurray is awesome!  We had some great discussions.  It was finally my turn for my interview.  This interview with President McMurray was absolutely incredible!  We talked about a lot of things to help me stay on the covenant path.  Such amazing advice and counsel!  He shared a scripture that really impacted me that I wanted to share with you.  It is Mosiah 2:41 which states,

41 And moreover, I would desire that ye should consider on the blessed and happy state of those that keep the commandments of God. For behold, they are blessed in all things, both temporal and spiritual; and if they hold out faithful to the end they are received into heaven, that thereby they may dwell with God in a state of never-ending happiness. O remember, remember that these things are true; for the Lord God hath spoken it.

      The key to being happy in our lives is keeping the commandments!  Do all that God needs us to do!  How amazing is that?  He invited me to follow God’s Commandments, and to do the little things each day and week to do so.  I will heed upon his counsel!  I would invite you guys to think about any way you can keep God’s Commandments for us, and how you can better do the small and simple things to build up your testimony each day.  You will be blessed as you do so!  Anyways, just some thoughts from this scripture.  President McMurray, I’m truly convinced, the best mission president on planet earth!  Bold statement, but with the amount of love, power, and conviction that comes when he testifies and teaches you is astounding!  I love him and Sister McMurray so much!  After our interview, it was about 7:30 when we got out.  President asked us if we had dinner plans, and we told him that dinner had never gotten back to us.  He offered to take us out to eat!  How nice of him!  We followed them over to Dsasumo Thai and Sushi, and boy was it good!  We had some great talked with President and Sister McMurray over dinner, it was great.  I’m so grateful for them both, they are so kind.  What a treat to end off an incredible day!
      On Saturday, a member family had us over for dinner and they have this new foreign exchange student that just came here to go to school.  She is from Moldova!  So cool!  It is between Romania and Ukraine.  We had caught wind of this a few weeks ago, so we had the assistants bring up a Romanian copy of The Book of Mormon for this girl, Julia.  After we ate with the family and got to know her, we had a great lesson about Alma 32:21 centered on Faith!  We gave Julia the Romanian copy of The Book of Mormon, and had her follow along in her own language!  (They speak Romanian in Moldova:) It was really cool!  The Spirit was definitely present.  The family attended a friend’s child of record baptism, so she has already seen a baptism, and she came to church yesterday!  The bishop welcomed her from over the pulpit, so she felt very welcomed!  Amazing!  We are hoping she learns more and gains a desire to eventually enter into the waters of baptism.  Baby steps, but she will continue to learn and have a desire to be baptized eventually!  Julia is so ready!  I love little miracles like these! :)
      We had Jeri come to Sacrament Meeting as well with her returning to activity member friend Brother Thomas!  That is exciting!  Four weeks in a row!  Long live the streak!!!  Hopefully she continues to attend.  Julia, the foreign exchange student, came as well.  Super awesome!  Ken didn’t make it.... sadly, but we should see him tonight and see what is up!  

       We received a referral from a member from another ward, and we are going to contact the guy tonight, stay tuned to hear how that goes next week! :)

       While we were eating dinner with President McMurray, a random senior couple missionaries came up in conversation, and apparently president had been looking for this couple for a few months.  They are in our ward, and work at the interpretive trails center up here in Casper!  They are apparently assigned to our mission, so president was eager to meet them.  Him and Sister McMurray visited them last Saturday, and invited them to Zone Conference and district meetings!  So now Elder and Sister Thorup are in our district!  How fun!  We called them up and invited them to our next district meeting, so that should be fun!  Great news, and glad we found them.  Heavenly Father definitely guided our conversation to talk about this senior couple so they could start being a part of everything!  I love it!  (Hope this all makes sense haha)

     
In D&C 58:26-28 it says,

26 For behold, it is not meet that I should command in all things; for he that is compelled in all things, the same is a slothful and not a wise servant; wherefore he receiveth no reward.

27 Verily I say, men should be anxiously engaged in a good cause, and do many things of their own free will, and bring to pass much righteousness;

28 For the power is in them, wherein they are agents unto themselves. And inasmuch as men do good they shall in nowise lose their reward.

       

       It is our choice to act, we are agents unto ourselves!  Choose this day to serve God forever and always!  I know that I will do this, and I hope and pray that we can all become true servants and disciples of Jesus Christ!  I love you guys, and I hope you have another fantastic week! 

Love,

Elder Bailey

Pics:

1: Cam the Man!

2: 5 generations!  Love these guys!

3. Brother and Sister Baker from Riverton!

4. Dinner with President and Sister McMurray!

5. Nice bear we found

6. Pday hike today!

8/21/18 | California's making us Smokey!!!

 What a great week!  As you can tell by the title of my email, Casper has been super smokey, especially the last couple of days!  It has been super weird, sad to think how many fires are happening around.  Hope they get put out soon!  Other than the smoke and some rain, it has been a great week!  Like I mentioned last week, I had the opportunity to perform another Baptismal interview for man named Eric.  It was so amazing to hear Eric’s testimony and how he found out for himself that The Book of Mormon is the word of God, Joseph Smith and Russell M. Nelson are prophets of God, and that this is Jesus Christ’s church on the earth today!  What an amazing thing to hear someone bear testimony about!  I love it!  Every time I hear someone’s testimony, it strengthens and reaffirms my own, because of the strong spirit that it invites!  I love this gospel, I love my Savior, and I am grateful for my opportunity to be a full time missionary!
     The second counselor in the bishopric in the Casper 9th Ward, Brother Whitlock, brought us with him to share a message with two people last Wednesday.  It was awesome to be out with a member to visit those in need.  With one of the people we visited, we were able to share a brief message about our Savior Jesus Christ and His Atonement!  Truly amazing!  The other individual we visited we did not have time to share a message, but we listened intently to what she had to say, and administered the sacrament to her because she cannot attend church regularly.  It was very neat to visit these people!  Brother Whitlock brought us out to lunch afterwards, so that was so nice of him to do!  I love the members here, they are awesome!
       We were Tracting this past week, and decided to use the last five minutes until we had to head to dinner to walk down a street and talk to anyone who was outside.  We met this man, and he let us talk with him a little about the Restoration.  He listened, but politely told us that he was not interested.  We asked him if he knew of anyone that could use an uplifting message or who was going through a rough time that we could reach out to?  He thought for a second, and said that there was someone from work.  He told us he didn’t know his address, but that he would text it to us.  So we gave him our number.  Honestly, we did not expect him to text us.  We hoped he did, but usually when people have taken our number in the past, they don’t call us or text us.  The next day however, we got a call!  We had no idea who it was, then he said “I’m the guy you talked to yesterday on the street!”  We were a little shocked, but glad he called!  He told us that he got the address and would text it to us.  But he said it was funny that the guy was already Mormon, but would love to have us stop by!  Crazy right?!  Turns out he is in another ward, so we told the missionaries to go visit him.  He is an inactive member who has a desire to come back.  So amazing that we were guided to that guy to get in contact with this member!  Cool little miracle!
      We received a referral for an inactive lady in our ward who wanted us to stop by.  She had recently left her place and is staying in a motel in a sketchy part of town until she find a permanent residence within our ward again.  We met her at the motel, and there were a ton of very interesting people there!  When we got there, a lady’s car had died.  So we helped her push her dead car into a parking spot.  We met on the balcony of the motel and read Alma 7:10-13 with the inactive lady and talked about Jesus Christ and His Atonement with her.  She expressed a great desire to attend church and start to come back to church!  How amazing!  We have another lesson with her this Thursday, so we are excited to meet with her again!  That same night we taught Jerri and Brother Thomas.  Jerri is not a member. Her and Brother Thomas have been best friends for years, and we are reading the Doctrine and Covenants with them!  We had another great lesson with them, and they came to church again for the third week in a row!  We truly know that our visits are helping them continue to progress in the gospel!  I love it.  We met with them every Thursday night, so that will be another great lesson again this week!
       After those lessons that night, we went out to contact some of the people with interest we are working with, and we set up many return appointments and talked to a man in a trailer park who accepted a copy of The Book of Mormon!  We actually met all of our daily finding goals after dinner, so that was a huge blessing and miracle!  It is amazing how the Lord provides the people and a way to further his work on His timetable, that is an amazing thing to witness daily!  

       On Saturday we had a lesson with the recent convert in our ward, Scott!  He took ur to eat lunch at Buffalo Wild Wings, and then we had a lesson at his apartment afterwards.  He just received his patriarchal blessing last Sunday, and he loves it!  He has now received new guidance and instruction on how he will go forth and serve God for the rest of his life.  It was amazing to hear his thoughts about his blessing and answer any questions he had about it.  Patriarchal blessings are truly amazing!  I would encourage and invite you guys to take it out and study it this week.  I have been studying mine a lot recently, and have found new knowledge and guidance as I’ve prayed and studied about it.  Patriarchal blessings are incredible!  I love them!  If you haven’t received one yet, talk to your bishop about it and work towards receiving your own!  It will change your life and your perspective!  I have felt a tremendous amount of God’s love for me as I’ve studied mine!  You will too I promise! 

       That night we had a “drop/stop teaching” party!  (Wasn’t really a party, it was kind of sad, but this helped us be happy about it!). We tried visiting a lot of people with interest, and they were not interested anymore.  They will be someday, and we hope and pray that they will remember their interaction with us!  God will provide another chance for them to receive the Restored Gospel of Jesus Christ again!  All on the Lord’s timetable!

       This past Sunday, we had two people being taught attend sacrament meeting!  After the Casper 9th wards sacrament meeting, our Bishop came up to us and introduced us to two random people we haven’t ever met before.  He told us that they wanted to meet with us.  We got talking with them, and they have just moved to Casper within the past week, and Ken is not a member of the church!  His wife is a returning active member, and Ken wants to be taught and be baptized!  Amazing!  Heavenly Father has blessed us with an elect person to teach!  We have a lesson with Ken and his wife tonight at 7, we can’t wait to teach him!  It will be a fantastic lesson!  Wahoo!  I love these small but incredible miracles!!! 

       Yesterday, we had four lessons set up, and they were all pretty solid lessons we had set a few days prior.  Throughout the whole day, everything went wrong...... all four lessons ended up cancelling, and it was a bit sad, but just a normal day as a missionary! We pressed forward and made the best of it.  We hope we can meet with those four people latter this or next week.  Crazy how sometimes our days just don’t go according to plan, but God is still mindful of each of us.  He knew those lessons were going to cancel, but we still had a good day through all the cancellations.  I love this work!  

       I was reading in 3 Nephi this past week.  I wanted to share these scriptures.  3 Nephi 14: 7-8, 13-14,

7 Ask, and it shall be given unto you; seek, and ye shall find; knock, and it shall be opened unto you.

8 For every one that asketh, receiveth; and he that seeketh, findeth; and to him that knocketh, it shall be opened.

13 Enter ye in at the strait gate; for wide is the gate, and broad is the way, which leadeth to destruction, and many there be who go in thereat;

14 Because strait is the gate, and narrow is the way, which leadeth unto life, and few there be that find it.

       These are truly amazing!  I love that promise, that as we ask, seek, and knock, we will receive answers to our prayers!  Interesting thing is, what do all three of these words require?  Action!!  It needs to be our choice to act, choose to pray and utilize the gift of prayer in our lives!  Those last two verses are very profound as well.  It is easy to be disobedient, and follow the path to destruction, but it is hard to follow the narrow path to eternal life!  As we choose to act and pray to our Heavenly Father fervently, and do all that is necessary to stay obedient and keep our testimonies strong, we will be able to stay on that narrow strait path to eternal life!  I know that Jesus Christ is at the helm of The Church, I am grateful for this Gospel that has been provided for each of us.  I hope you all have a great week, love you!  Thanks for all the support!

Love,

Elder Bailey 

Pics:

1: found this bird in the middle of the road while we were walking, he didn’t move so I thought it’d be a NICE pic with him, haha (he may have been sick with something, so I kept my distance!) 

8/14/18 | Casper 9th Ward comin in clutch!

What a week!  This was legit one of the fastest weeks of my entire mission, all of our days were absolutely packed with stuff to do!  We didn’t even have time for Companionship Study most of the week, it was that packed!  Elder Godfrey is such a funny guy!  He is an exact copy of Mike Burr, it is honestly a little scary how much they are the same.  So it feels like I am companions with my cousin, so that has been fun!
    Last Wednesday was our transfer day, and my previous companion headed down to Cheyenne.  I was companions with Elder Fuller for a little bit of the day.  We did studies together, I helped him clean his apartment from his last companions, and we tried for a service opportunity but they cancelled on us.  We had a good time trying to contact some people with interest as well!  We were able to go to the Stake Center and meet our new companions, and Elder Godfrey seemed like such a stud!  After the past week of being his companion, my guesses were definitely on point, he is such a stud!  I love him, and we are doing some great work.  I’m grateful he wants to be diligent, obedient, and work hard, what a miracle!
     We got a call from the bishop in the Casper 9th Ward the next day, and he told us that the ward council had set up a bunch of appointments for us so that we could be effective and busy while we are serving in their ward!  I’ve never had a whole ward council come together and set up appointments for us, that was just amazing!  This is partly why our days have been so packed, because of all the appointments we have had with less active, and part member families.  It has truly been a miracle to behold!  I’m grateful that I have the chance of serving in the Casper 9th Ward again!  We’ve literally been fed lunch every day this past week except for Sunday and Saturday, so the members are truly helping us stay busy and productive!  Actually, while I was writing this email, we got a call from a member who wants us to have lunch with him and an inactive member at a restaurant in 30 minutes, that is how incredible this ward is!!  I can’t express how grateful I am for them, they are going to help progress the work within their ward so well!  Casper 9th Ward is truly comin in clutch!
   I had the privilege to perform two more Baptismal Interviews this week, and it was again some great experiences!  As I have said before, I LOVE performing these interviews and hearing the testimonies of every individual who has a desire to be baptized.  Each interview always reminds me of Doctrine and Covenants 20:37, which states,

37 And again, by way of commandment to the church concerning the manner of baptism--All those who humble themselves before God, and desire to be baptized, and come forth with broken hearts and contrite spirits, and witness before the church that they have truly repented of all their sins, and are willing to take upon them the name of Jesus Christ, having a determination to serve him to the end, and truly manifest by their works that they have received of the Spirit of Christ unto the remission of their sins, shall be received by baptism into his church.

     I love this scripture!  It is amazing to see individuals have all of these qualifications within their hearts, and truly have that desire to be baptized!  It has been such a blessing to have the opportunity to perform so many of them as I have served throughout my mission, especially up here in Casper.  There is actually one tonight that we are going to perform tonight as well, so we are looking forward to that!
     One of the appointments the Casper 9th Ward set up for us was an appointment with a returning member.  He is a single man who sincerely wants to change!  We got to know him, and had a lesson centered on Jesus Christ and His Atonement! We read Alma 7:10-13 with him, and asked him how he has seen the Atonement affect him in his life.  The Spirit was strong within his trailer home, and it was amazing to see how it touched his heart.  We invited him to read, pray, and attend church.  He told us he would love to attend church, and we asked if we could text him and remind him about attending on Sunday morning, and he said that would be fantastic!  We texted him and he wasn’t able to attend, but we are looking forward to our next visit.  Reading The Book of Mormon truly invites the Holy Ghost!
      This past week we got a strange call from another set of missionaries.  They needed us to pick them up because one of them got bit by a Saint Bernard (a.k.a. Big doggy...)!  It was actually Elder Burke who got bit, he was one of my past companions!  We took him to urgent care and he got all checked out and didn’t have any issues!  However, the next day we got another call at around noon from the same companionship.  We had just gotten done with a returning active member visit with a member of our Elders Quorum Presidency.  Elder Burke asked if we could come pick them up.  He kinda sounded a bit nervous, so we asked them why.  They proceeded to tell us the address to where they were at.  We asked again why they needed a ride, then they finally opened up and said that Elder Burke’s companion had been attacked pretty viciously by a Pit bull, and Elder Burke had been bitten as well.  These elders just can’t get a break!!  Haha.  We met them at the urgent care once again, and the neighbors of the people who’s dog bit them drove them there.  Elder Burke’s companion had a blood soaked towel wrapped around his calf where he got bit.  He got out of the car and showed us the bite.  It was really bad...... like super deep and bleeding all over.  The Elder didn’t have his insurance on him, so we discussed it with the mission nurse.  She told us to go to the ER at the hospital, so they could start treating him, then they could worry about insurance later.  We did, and had to rush to attend the baptisms we performed the interviews for!  He got all treated and fixed up, and everything turned out good.  But that bite on his leg was super bad....... sheesh...... Glad both of them are okay.  That’s probably the craziest thing that happened this week!  Haha.
      We had two of the people we are teaching attend church this past week, so that was amazing!  Also, the recent convert we have been working with in the Casper 6th Ward received his patriarchal blessing as well, how amazing!!  He was so excited to receive this!  He cannot wait to get it so he can read it.  How amazing is that, to see Scott’s progress within the gospel, even after he was baptized!  So incredible!  

       In my studies this my week, 3 Nephi 9:21-22 stood out to me!  It says,

21 Behold, I have come unto the world to bring redemption unto the world, to save the world from sin.

22 Therefore, whoso repenteth and cometh unto me as a little child, him will I receive, for of such is the kingdom of God. Behold, for such I have laid down my life, and have taken it up again; therefore repent, and come unto me ye ends of the earth, and be saved.

       These verses  reminded me of how much Jesus Christ, our Savior and Redeemer, truly loves each of us personally!!!  He gave His life for us, so we can live with our Heavenly Father once again.  He is our ultimate source of happiness and peace, but we have to be humble and submissive in order to inherit all the blessings God has for us here on earth!  You may ask, how do we know how to be humble and submissive?”  Well, guess what, we honestly have the perfect example in our lives, that is our Savior Jesus Christ!  As we always remember what He has done for us, and follow His example, we can become more like Him and our Heavenly Father, and in turn come closer to them both!  I love this gospel, I love being a missionary, and I am grateful for Jesus Christ in my life!  Have a fantastic week! 

Love,

Elder Bailey 

Pics:

1: while we were doing service, we found this nice thing to put on our dash.  We named him Juan Pablo :)

2: Don’t really have any other pics from this past week, but I like this gospel pic a lot! :)

8/7/18 | Staying here in Casper!

 Wow, I honestly cannot believe how fast this past transfer went by, it is so crazy how fast time truly flies!  Tomorrow is transfers, and we found out last Saturday night that Elder Williamson and I will not be companions anymore, and that he is headed down to Cheyenne.  I found out that my new companions name is Elder Godfrey!  I kind of know him, but not really.  He came out a little over a year ago, and I’m excited to work with him!  This next transfer we will be covering not only the Casper 6th Ward, but now we are covering the Casper 9th Ward too!  So I get to serve in the Casper 9th Ward once again!  That will be pretty fun.  Both of these wards meet at the same time in two separate buildings, so it may be a bit tricky to work out, but we will probably switch off every week!  We now have a car as well because the ward boundaries are so far apart.  Things should be good, I’m looking forward to this next transfer!  Can’t wait to make it the best one yet!!!
      This past Wednesday I had the opportunity to perform two Baptismal interviews for a set of sisters.  Man do I love participating in this way, and seeing the amount of conversion with each individual, it is amazing!  Elder Williamson and I walked into the church building and we saw the little girl, Tori, who was going to be baptized, with her mother.  They were happy to see us!  They started to talk with us and they asked us if we have ever baptized anyone before.  Both me and Elder Williamson replied that we have not.  They proceeded to ask me if I would perform the baptism for Tori!  I told them I would love to!  It was a bit of a shock to the both of us, but how amazing!  Her Baptismal interview went absolutely amazing, she was so ready to be baptized!  The next interview went just a good, the individual is very ready to make this covenant with God!  Tori’s baptism this past Saturday was awesome!  It was so strange actually being the person to baptize someone.  It was the neatest experience.  I’m grateful that Heavenly Father provided me with this opportunity to perform Tori’s baptism!  It was so fun to see how she was so happy and shiny after her baptism.  I will remember that day for a long time.  What a miracle!
      We were able to have a dinner appointments with the Howard’s, some members of our ward.  For our lesson afterwards we shared the #BecauseofHim Easter video from a few years back.  Man does that video invite the Spirit!  As they watched the video the Spirit filled the room!  We then asked these members how Jesus Christ has been an impact in their lives?  Their responses were amazing.  They bore powerful testimonies to us of our Savior Jesus Christ and what He meant to them.  They both were in tears near the end, and the Spirit was so strong!  I’m grateful for Jesus Christ, the Savior of the world!  Without Him we are truly nothing.  He gave His life for each of us, and as we remember that great and last sacrifice and utilize the Atonement in our lives, we can truly be blessed!  I cannot express how much I love Him!  I hope each of us remembers what Jesus has done for us.  He is the way!
      We said goodbye to a lot great missionaries and dear friends of mine.  Elder Tippetts, Elder Judd, Elder Campbell, Elder Littlewood, Elder Johnson, etc.  Some of these elders were past companions, but all were my friends.  Sad to see them go, but there comes a time when you can’t be a full time missionary anymore....... can you believe that!?  I truly feel that I’ve done this my whole entire life and that this is where I’m going to stay forever.  Time comes and goes, but the Gospel will always remain constant, what a blessing that is to each of us!  I’m grateful for the time I have to be a full time missionary and to be able to teach The Gospel of Jesus Christ!  So far my mission has changed my life, and I cannot wait to see the changes that are still in store for me!
      We had another lesson with Angel last Friday, and it went so well!  We focused on studying The Book of Mormon, and helping her understand it a little better.  We brought the Marshall’s, the fellowshipping family who is picking her up to bring her to church each Sunday, and they were able to help explain to her in kid terms what we were reading in 1 Nephi 3.  Angel is understanding the scriptures better now!  We invited her to read and pray, and she told us she was going to do better at both!  Amazing!  She will get baptized, hopefully she can be prepared while I’m still here, but if not that is okay. :)
      This past Saturday we had some good time after Tori’s baptism to walk around.  A recent convert in our ward, Scott, picked us up for the baptism, attended it with us, then drove is home.  He loved seeing another baptism and supporting other new members, he told us it reminds him of when he was baptized just seven weeks ago, how amazing!  We walked towards dinner and talked to everyone we could on the way!  We were able to talk with a bunch of people, but no one wanted to hear our message.  It was hot, no one listened, but it was a great time serving the Lord and doing our best!  I love it!  We had a great dinner, and talked to more people on the way back with little to no people interested as well.  I believe and know that success is truly in the invitation!  We cannot force people to believe, we can only invite.  I am so grateful for Heavenly Father’s plan for us, and how agency is such a huge role in that plan.  

       Elder Williamson and I had the opportunity to bear our testimonies this past Fast Sunday.  I’m so grateful I did!  It was amazing to testify of Jesus Christ and His Gospel! In my studies this past week, I read in Helaman 13.  This is when Samuel the Lamanite is prophesying to the wicked Nephites.  It is all centered upon Jesus Christ and is amazing!  Specifically in Helaman 13:11 which states,

11 But if ye will repent and return unto the Lord your God I will turn away mine anger, saith the Lord; yea, thus saith the Lord, blessed are they who will repent and turn unto me, but wo unto him that repenteth not.

       Jesus Christ has provided us with The Atonement, but it is our choice to act upon what He has already given and paid for and to repent each and every day!  All we need to do is choose, and have a willing heart.  Jesus Christ and His Everlasting Atonement will always be there for us and He is constantly beckoning us to utilize it in our lives!  May we all choose to do so and participate in the greatest thing to ever happen to mankind!  I love you guys, and I hope you have a great week!

Love,

Elder Bailey 

Pics:

1-2: Tori’s baptism! 

3-4: Western Trails Museum today!

7/31/18 | Can't Believe July is GONE!

Another great week being a missionary here in Casper!  Did I ever mention how much I love being a missionary??!  It is truly the most amazing experience I’ve ever had in my life, and I’m so grateful I have had the chance to serve.  :)

   Last Tuesday after Preparation Day ended, we were checking in with some potentials near our apartment and we saw this man sitting out in front of his apartment.  We went and spoke with him, and found out his name was Trey.  We asked Trey if he was religious or had a belief in God or Jesus Christ.  He told us he didn’t really have a belief in either, so we were able to teach him and testify to him about how The Book of Mormon is, and how it testified about our Savior Jesus Christ!  We explained how we come to know who our Savior is, and that He has suffered for all of our sins, pains, afflictions, and sorrows because He loves us!  We offered him a copy of a The Book of Mormon and he accepted it.  We invited him to read from it and pray to asked God to know if it is true, and he told us he would.  We asked if there was a time we could stop by again and talk more about what we believe, and he told us we could!  We are looking forward to stopping by this week, what a blessing God directed us towards him!  I love how He helps us find the ones who are ready to receive the Restored Gospel!

   I was able to go on exchanges with one of my friends, Elder Littlewood, last Wednesday!  We had a great time, and a quite busy day.  He is going home this upcoming Saturday, and we were able to talk about the struggles he is having with that, and how he wants to continue to finish strong.  I invited him to continue to do so.  It was fun being able to do the work with a good friend, glad he is serving near me for his last transfer!
   It has been so rainy here in Casper, it has been so weird!  Every afternoon a huge rainstorm comes through and hits us super hard, but every day it seems like we always happen to be inside somewhere with cover right when it gets super bad.  We were stopping by the post office to ask them a questions the other day, and the clouds were looking pretty mean in the sky.  Honestly about two minutes after we went in, there was a massive hail storm with hail the size of large peas and grapes, it was nuts!  We just watched it for the whole craziness, and then headed out right after.  But apparently there was a tornado that was just north of Casper, so that is a bit crazy haha.  Who knew in Wyoming I’d see the worst hail and worst rain I’ve ever seen in my life!  And have tornados be so close..... but it we are all safe up here don’t worry :).
    We had a lesson with some returning active members this past week, and we read the introduction to the Doctrine and Covenants.  We ran into them about two weeks ago and they said we could come back and teach them, and that they wanted to learn more about The Doctrine and Covenants, so we came back to have that lesson this past week.  It was a great lesson!  We explained what the Doctrine and Covenants was, and helped them understand a little better about it.  We invited them to read the first two chapters before this next Thursday lesson, so we are hoping to help them know and gain a testimony of the prophet Joseph Smith.  I love Joseph Smith so much!  Since my lil bro Randon has been in Nauvoo for the past couple of weeks, from reading the introduction to the Doctrine and Covenants, and from Pioneer Day last week, I have been reminded of how grateful I am for the sacrifice that early saints and for the sacrifice of Joseph Smith.  I know that he is a prophet of God, and that Jesus Christ’s original true Church has been restored through him!  It is truly an amazing thing to know that Heavenly Father loves us enough to give us this gospel, what a blessing!  I hope we all can remember the sacrifice of the early saints, and the prophet Joseph Smith.  It is because of them that we have the blessing we have today!
    Our lesson fell through with our new person being taught, Angel.  She is so amazing!  She came to church with a member family again this week, and absolutely loved it!  We rescheduled our lesson for this upcoming Wednesday, and we will be bringing her fellow shipping family, who gives her rides to church, and we will be teaching The Plan of Salvation, so we can’t wait!  It should be amazing!  We are so grateful that Heavenly Father has placed Angel into our lives so that we can teach her, we can’t wait to continue to see her progress!
     We had the opportunity to go to the Fort Collins Temple today with a recent convert to do proxy baptisms, it was amazing!  Scott is his name, and he was the man who I had the opportunity to interview for baptism last transfer, and now I’m serving in his ward!  He is such an amazing guy, and we are so grateful we could participate in these ordinances with him!  I had the opportunity to baptize another Elder, and then perform confirmations as well, it was such a cool opportunity to have and it was a look on what being a temple worker would be like, so it was a fantastic experience!  Scott was able to perform the baptism of his dad, grandpa, great grandpa, great great grandpa, and so many more ancestors we helped him find!  Truly an amazing thing to witness!  After we were finished, we were waiting around for the other elders to come out, and I felt someone grab my shoulder and say “what’s up big guy!”  I turned around and it was Tom!  Tom was a man that Elder Hatch and I were able to teach when I was back in Greeley Colorado last Christmas time.  He got baptized this past January, and he said he attends the temple twice a week, what a cool thing to see him progressing so well, it is so amazing!  It was definitely not a coincidence that we saw him, what a blessing!  We took a picture outside of the temple really quick before we had to get going.  I’m so grateful that President McMurray let us drive down with Scott to perform these baptisms, what an amazing experience!  I love the temple so much, and it was nice to perform baptisms again!
       I was studying in Helaman, and I came across Helaman 10:4-5, it is such it amazing scripture!  It states,

4 Blessed art thou, Nephi, for those things which thou hast done; for I have beheld how thou hast with unwearyingness declared the word, which I have given unto thee, unto this people. And thou hast not feared them, and hast not sought thine own life, but hast sought my will, and to keep my commandments.

5 And now, because thou hast done this with such unwearyingness, behold, I will bless thee forever; and I will make thee mighty in word and in deed, in faith and in works; yea, even that all things shall be done unto thee according to thy word, for thou shalt not ask that which is contrary to my will.

       I was thinking about this, and don’t we all want to be like this particular Nephi?!  He is truly amazing!!  I was thinking of how I want to be able to unwearyingly declaration the word among the people as I go forth and serve the rest of my mission, that is such a huge goal of mine!  I know that we can all be like into this faithful servant, Nephi, as we go forth and become true disciples of our Savior Jesus Christ and His Gospel!  You know what this is called right?  Yes Ministering!  Being an effective minister is being a missionary.  As we all become effective ministers, the missionary force will honestly quadruple in size, as we have full time missionaries and members working effectively together to progress the work of Salvation.  We can all become these effective ministers, as we strive to become more like Him.  I love you all and hope each of you has a wonderful week!  God will always be on our side as we follow His commandments and the example of Jesus Christ! :)

Love,

Elder Bailey

Pics:

1. We saw Tom at the temple!  

2. Scott at the temple!

3. Man do I love the temple. :)