Saturday, August 31, 2013

As Saturdays typically are, we had a wonderful day. This morning we begun up on Post finding new AIT students and looking up some we haven't seen out to church for a while. There is only one student out here now that we don't know where he is. We will keep hunting for him. We have 38 students/soldiers out here on Post; it is interesting, the numbers stay very consistent. It will rise and fall from week-to-week, but by in large we stay in the mid thirties. We found 4 student/soldiers today that we had never visited before, 3 of them had just arrived and one had been here for two  months, but we could never catch a break with him. We finally caught up with him today. Another fellow, we found playing video games in the arcade, and another we woke up, he still came down and talked to us, it was time for him morning formation anyway, so it wasn't all that bad. Hopefully, we will see all these young men at church where we can better befriend them and get to know them and they us.

This afternoon we attended a baptism of a wonderful lady and her son, the Dixons. They are neighbors of a member family on post and have been loved and friendshipped into the gospel.It was a delightful occasion. One of our recent converts, Brother Sanders, gave a talk on the subject of baptism. He did a very fine job.

Then this evening, we had two appointments, one with the Hall family and one with the Bryan family. The Hall family had been living in the area for about 1 1/2  years; the young Elders just happened to track into them and they confessed to being members of the Church. They immediately came out to church the following weekend; then we learned about them and made the appointment to visit them. We had a very nice 30 minutes with them. Next, the Bryans, they are still in the process of moving in. They agreed to have us over, even though they are still putting things away. He is 38 years old and joined the army just 2 1/2  years ago. Talk about starting over!

Just as we were leaving their home, we got a text message from the del a torre family. They needed help moving a piano out of storage into their home; so we drove up and met up with them at the storage unit (we were about 15 minutes away) and helped them and two young Elders move it out, onto a trailer and then into their home. It wasn't too bad of a job. It has been a wonderful busy day!

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