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I am finding it interesting that all the mail comes on days that are already good. I guess it helps when so many of the days are good. I had tons of mail today. I got pictures, 2 letters from Mom, 2 bank statements, my phone card, and a letter from Sister Bradley. Elder Baird…

At the booth today we were invited to speak in a sociology class in three weeks. We were hurrying home so i could eat before our appointment. She cancelled so it was no big deal. This gave us time for the book of Mormon. We gave Bill Wyatt a blessing on the way to our…

We had a great discussion with Bill Hayes today. I nearly challenged him to Baptism again but the phone rang and destroyed the spirit. We got tubed* at nearly everything else. We did manage to find out that a few people weren’t really interested. Now we won’t waste time contacting them. We did tons of…

We got a few discussions taught and we tried to get in contact with Lorraine (from 1/31/1996). No luck. We had a district meeting and set goals. We’re getting really pumped. And falling behind on the Book of Mormon. Much to be done.

We spent all morning playing basketball. In the afternoon we played pool and in the evening we had a dinner appointment with Greg Adams. We taught him the priesthood lesson for this week since he was late to priesthood. Basically we got no real work done.

William Wyatt was scheduled for baptism, but the pipe froze so we couldn’t fill the font. Elder Baird and I had our hands full today. We had two investigators out to church and we are scheduling discussions with a girl named Cody through Mike Toohey. We gave a fireside tonight to the youth. It went…

Planning for the fireside tomorrow has helped me grow. I know this growth will help me. I will be a “visionary” missionary.

Today was a day of learning. I learned the truth about how we bring glory to God. I will use a missionary analogy. When a person is baptized the missionary who taught and baptized them gets glory from the people regardless of whether the missionary wants glory or not. The same is true if God…

We sat at the booth in the Student Center at SIU today (Southern Illinois University – Carbondale). For three hours nobody came so I wrote letters. Then the last hour we ran into Mark who has had all six discussions. We set up a time to meet with him and answer his questions. Before Mark…

And I thought that yesterday was awesome. Today we had a great District Meeting, ate at a great Italian fast food place (Fazoli’s if memory serves me 26+ years later), did great service and has a great talk with Bill Hayes. Then we went to work. We saw Sherry who we thought was a good…