Baker, Justin

    Hey everyone! Well this week was good but definitely challenging. This email is going to be a shorter one and a little different since I have no energy to write a super detailed one. Sorry about that. Alright, let's get started      Highlights - I memorized The First Vision in tagalog - We went on exchanges with the other Elders - I finished the Book of Mormon  - We taught a ton of lessons! - Our apartment got weights - we found 20 new people! - one of our IPs came to church!!      Lowlights  - I got sick on Saturday     Sorry you guys for the weak email. Heres a good scripture for the week though! 1 Nephi 4:6   6 And I was led by the Spirit, not knowing beforehand the things which I should do.      I love this verse. I feel like there are so many times in our lives when we can't see the way or don't know where to go. I promise that through prayer and study of the scriptures, we can be guided by the...

    Hey everyone!! I hope ya'll had a great week! I've been hearing our boys and girls both won luther so big shout out to them, you guys are crazy! And the JV boys won TriProv too, so big up's for Comet nation baby.    This week I've been trying to focus on one of the Christlike Attributes in Preach My Gospel. It went really well! And it was a lot of just good solid missionary work. I know ya'll like hearing about those big crazy stories but it isn't always like that on a mission I guess. Sometimes you just put your head down and work. But that does not mean there aren't any small miracles. You'll see what I mean later. Lets get started.      Tuesday we had 4 lessons that went so good. They were follow up lessons from some past findings. Later we had a sweet dinner appointment at one of the members house we met at church on Sunday. She's actually just visiting here and she currently lives in Toronto!! Her names Nanay Hora. Elder Coppieters, I told h...

   Hey ya'll!! I hope your week went well!! My week went really well with all of our findings and lessons. We have a really good strategy for findings went crazyyyy! Lets get into this week.    So Tuesday we went and got haircuts from our 1st councilor in the branch Presidency so he gave it to us for freeee! Big blessing for any missionary who comes here for real. We had 5 lessons and lots of contacts that went really well. When we were finding we had a ton of success this week which was so good. We were being super bold and just getting right to the point. We would just tell them " we're missionaries from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints, and we have the true restored gospel of Jesus Christ " and then ask if they wanna know the truth. I was a little nervous but it really does make it easy to see whos interested for real.     Wednesday throught Friday was basically the same. We had about 4 or 5 lessons a day and found like 4 people per day. S...

   What's up ya'll!! Alright this week has been crazyyyy! Well all of the craziness has been all wrapped up in one big event... I got transfered!!! It's a very wierd feeling. My old area ( Santiago City ) really turned into my home. But transfers are part of the mission so i'm going to try to adjust and just put my head down and work to get into the swing of things here in Aritao!      This last week was alot of getting to know the members here so not alot to put in this email. I really only have photos.  Sorry to those people who actually read my emails. If you don't then I hope you like the pictures hahaha. Anyways that's about it for this week.     Also side note, theres a basketball court right beside out apartment. I now have a sure witness of the revelatory process of transfers. Hahahaha all joking aside though, it is a huge plus for me.     Alright everyone thats all for this week. Sorry for the lack of coolness but as a...