Moments from a Missionary

Well this week went by so fast! It was not even funny, I am so exhausted but so happy. Huntington has a lot of decaying areas in the city outside of the downtown area and the Marshall Campus which is still the hardest thing for me to see in my mission is just devastating poverty. It is hard to see people living in conditions that they might as well be in a 2nd world country, the hard part of seeing that is just seeing people that just seem Stuck!  Stuck and surrounded by what seem to be in-passable steep treacherous mountains of problems, addictions and violence. It can be very overwhelming to work in such an environment. Seeing that the problems at large are so huge that it seems impossible to make a dent in the effort to help people. Following such great success with our Booth at Marshall University  on Saturday  which was an all day affair and finding so many great new bright young adults...I wanted with all my heart to see even just a few of these contacts to catch the spiri

Here are a few photos from the past few days...Huntington is incredible! I am so excited to be here. This is Elder Hill, he is Elder Tupou's Trainee that he will be training back in WSS. I already heard back from them and things are continuing to go very well and our investigators in wss have warmed up to this brand new missionary very well. Elder Cluff and I along with the Winns having yet another Kentucky reunion...all of these people have or are serving in Prestonsburg KY (my second area) I am going down to Prestonsburg KY this Tuesday and Wednesday, I am so excited to return to visit and teach recent converts and investigators on my exchange there starting tomorrow. Huntington is also home to Marshall University, the second largest university in the state, we have a LDS student association that we run on campus and President Salisbury sent me here to apply what we have done with our booths and colleges I have worked on in my past two areas. I am also excited becau

I am so happy and really feel that I finished very strong here in WSS! H.G.  is so happy because of the miracles that have happened in her family too! Her two oldest sons are now regularly attending church with her and reading the Book of Mormon (not just reading it but enjoying it) with her which I know to be an answer to her many pleading prayers and A. (her oldest son) has gained a sincere desire to be a missionary, I hope to hear their Baptism in the next couple months and surely before the end of the year.  Unfortunately, I don't think that A.B. will be getting baptized on  August 22nd , because of the time it will take for him to really get settled into the life of a latter-day saint. But this much is the victory in the past 8 months that I have been here with him he has seen a total change in heart and has felt a true conversion and acceptance of the Book of Mormon! Which is HUGE! He has gone from being very against the Book of Mormon and the church to receiving in