September 28

Well its been another great week in Chesterfield!! I just love this area. The weather has been celestial and its been great to work in.


Our investigators are doing really well. We had an appointment with Chris yesterday. This guy is just so solid. We was telling us that he wanted to move his baptismal date back because he didn't feel ready. Then when we asked him how his prayers were going he said that the Lord keeps telling him to keep his baptism on the 10th!!! He still isn't sure, but the fact that he is recognizing the Lords answers and knows what he NEEDS to do is great, so were still planning on the 10th between the two of us.



Vita is still thinking about baptism. We were on splits the other night and the member I was with asked her about it and she spoke really positively about it, the thing is is that she is scared of water (due to a near drowning experience when she was a kid). No worries though. There is this part member family that the elders have been working with for a while that is starting to show a lot of interest. She is going to have a baby in a few months and was asking questions about them all being sealed. We are trying to get her husband more active so that he can baptize her. We'll see.



We have a new investigator, Kevin, I'm not sure if I told you about. We found him tracting a few weeks ago and have since gone back twice. This last time we talked about authority and the Prophet and Apostles and told him how we have General Conference coming up. He immediately got up from the table and left. We were a little nervous, but he had gone to the TV and was setting it to record conference on the BYU station. Not only did he record that, but everything he saw that had to do with Joseph Smith or the Book of Mormon. It was a really neat experience. We hope that we'll get to teach his wife this week too. We'll call him today.


This week we are going to try and work a ton with the members and get some referrals. We've set some pretty high goals, with the help of the Spirit, and are going to use every tool available to us to accomplish them. Even with that said its going to stretch our faith a lot, but all things are possible to the Lord (1 Nephi 7:12).


Nonetheless its going to be a really good transfer. With General Conference, another special Zone conference with Elder Walker of the 1st Quorum of 70, and everything that's going to happen in our area, how could it not be.


Neat little story:
We were planning one night and were not sure where to go the next morning. We sat looking at the map for ever and nothing came. Then Elder Nelson had this great idea. We each looked at the map and picked five streets. then the other person would do the same. When we had each picked our five we came back together and saw which ones (if any) matched. One did!!! We tracted it that next morning and found a new investigator!!! It was really neat seeing how the Lord guides us when we exercise faith.


Mom-tell Kersie congrats. There was a girl from our ward that just got back from the Boston mission and just loves that area. it will be fun. A name would be nice for Sis. Plessingers niece, but I'll see what I can find out. Is she from our area? I've already got a really GOOD flower tie :) actually its really ugly but a member gave us a bunch and so i got it. You can only get so far with ultra conservative ties, haha. Its also starting to get kinda cold at night, do you think you could send me my BYUI blanket? That'd be great.


Dad-If you see Aunt Marilyn any time soon, let her know that Sis. Parks is in my ward, I said hi for her and she says hi back. I don't know when I'll have an opportunity to write them anytime soon. We are going to the arch today and iIdon't know how much time we'll have after. Get a picture of Mitt for me, everyone out here loves him!!


Anyway, keep us in your prayers (I know you do anyway),
Love,
Elder Egan