Weston with his Mission President Toombs. Weston has been able to get to know the Mission President due to his Trainer was a former Assistant to the President. The Mission President has gone with Weston to teach people. Weston has enjoyed getting to know him and his wife.
Weston got right into the work. When he got there in Aurora, Colorado he had baptism set for that week.
Here is a picture of Weston and his buddies at his farewell. Going to miss seeing the boys
Picture of the missionaries in the MTC. The big guy on the right plays football for BYU. Also the picture below is one of all the missionaries leaving the MTC for the mission field.
Weston's good friend, Ryan Hineman was in the MTC together. They both look so happy. It was too bad that Weston did not get a picture of Josh Gross. He saw Josh for only a moment in the MTC as Weston was rushing off to a meeting.
The bat and helmet. Weston loves to play football and the helmet was awarded to him as Player of the Year, but the helmet means more to him. He read the Book of Mormon and got the bat as a Priest and that was when he gained a testimony of the Gospel and decided he wanted to serve a mission.
Pictures of his farewell. I love the picture below of my Mother, Nancy, Gary, Cindy and myself.
We had such a good time seeing family and friends. Here is Jesse, Terra with Nathan and Jessica.
Here is a copy of today's letter from Weston:
Well this week we had a baptism lined up and I was to baptism Gary but
we have to postpone it. He had to be interviewed by the president and
there is something up that he has to write Salt Lake. He is still strong
which is good because most just fall away because they can't baptized
right away. This week was the most productive so far we taught 25
lessons. One day we taught 8 so we literally went to teaching appointment to teaching appointment. It was awesome and we found 7 new
investigators it was just awesome how much the Lord has blessed us. I
went on exchanges with the zone leaders this week and it was interesting
because they serve in the YSA branch and it is different than back home.
They have 30 active in the branch and they meet not in a building but
in the cannery. It is weird how different it is then back in mesa. The
ward I am in is huge and has 700 members with about a 100 active. So we
are always busy visiting people and the city of Aurora is one giant
apartment complex so we have a lot on our hands. It has been great my
companion was an AP before he was my trainer so he is close with
president so I have more contact with him than most. He talked about how
when the age dropped the productive went sky high and has been that
way. I am excited to hear what the prophet has to say about missionary
work this session. I am excited for conference the most I have ever been.
One thing that is hard to do is to get member referrals. They don't ever
tell us anything and that is were 80 percent of baptism happen. So I
have a commitment that who ever reads this gives the missionaries one referral. It isn't that hard almost all the referral the members doubt
but we have so far always gave a way a book of Mormon or something else
so give them referrals.
