8/16/2015

Your Birthday is coming up--hopefully your package reaches you by your birthday; it is just a little something including your verb book.

We can't wait to hear about your first area.!

Things here are hot 108 yesterday. We had a fish fry last night with the neighbors across the street, the Shields, (I invited Janet but she said she doesn't like to go to "thoughs types of things and that she was anti social") Mitch, his wife and son from dad's work, Mac and Traegon(Traegon had the most fun catching crawdads and swimming, the Schiffmans came too. Kurt even brought a blue tooth and plugged in some Cajun music all night long---finally even I got sick of it and asked for a change of genre. Dad worked hard all  day and all night, he is such a host! The yard was nice and the food was great! 

   Today I was able to help Erin with her homework-I do not know how long this will last, but I am glad McConnell has homework helps online--such a great teacher!

xxoxo

MOM

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8/12/2105

Its hard to believe that this is the last week in the ccm! the days feel like weeks and weeks feel like days. I cannot describe with words how excited I am for the field. Every time that we are able to leave the ccm and walk to the temple or the distribution center  we try to talk with every person that we can! the people here are so friendly! I cannot wait to actually be able to meet with more of them. They are very willing to speak with us and love talking about their story and their beliefs, I am so blessed to be where I am!

This week has been very similar to most of the other weeks that i have had so far in the ccm as far as the schedule goes. we teach lesson to each other and other mock investigators. Although our spanish is broken and limited our lessons are often the highlight of my day! I love teaching the latino disrticts espeacially. They help the nortes out a lot and I feel that our lessons improve more.

This week we are going to have a lot of orientation devotionals  with our president, President cox. He is a farmer from california. He is a spiritual giant and is amazing at motivating all the missionaries here. He loves getting fired up! President is definetly a ¨´pulpit thumper´¨. I am pretty excited to have an opportunity to listen to his exit devotionals. There is so much to learn from him!

My district is now in the oldest group of missionaries here at the ccm. It is pretty interesting to look back at the new elders and realize that we have only been here for a few weeks.We still have to much to learn!.ALso This week My companion elder stephan became famous throughout the entire ccm. He is a very talanted Musician. He played some hymn melodies that he composed and some other missionaries heard and soon the word spread and so he has been traveling around the ccm and playing for many of the other districts and devotionals. It is pretty amazing. he plays like john schmidt! It is powerful adn the spirit is so strong when he plays. It is so nice to hear good music!

Yesterday evening we had a devotional and were able to hear from our area president. His name is president Duncan His message was poweful. He spoke about the power of the atonement in helping us face the challanges and trials that we all have in life. I have been thinking about this a lot this past few weeks. I am so grateful for the atonement and the peace and joy that i have recieved from it in my own life. Jesus christ has a perfect knoledge of all of our trials in this life. He knows our pains and our insecurities. If we turn to him wiht faith and humility he will help us. I testify that he loves us perfectly. He wants us to come unto him and he has prepared a way for all of us to do so. I am so excited for the opportunity to start serving the lord in the field next week. I love all of you and hope that you are doing well. I pray for you every day! 

I dont know if i will be able to email next week because i will miss my pday. 

I recieved 2 letters it takes 9 days for me to get them in the ccm

I think that i will be able to get the package next week when i get to the mission home.

Elder Baldwin

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