Great New Invesitgator

Happy Monday everyone!!!!!

Well this week wasn't too exciting but it was a good week. Our investigator, Anthony has a baptism date set for January 28^th, so that was exciting this week. He is pretty funny guy.  He asked some awesome questions in church that the teachers didn’t know how to answer. Last Sunday they were talking about even if you go to church you are not guaranteed to go to the celestial kingdom.  He asked them what is the point is to going to church. Then yesterday we were talking about the tree of life and he asked what happened to Lamen and Lemuel. Well anyways I thought it was funny.

On Thursday we went down to Lansing for a leadership training, all of the district leaders and their comp got to go.  The training was done by two guys that are in charge of the MTC.  They taught us and it was great.  I learned a lot. This Friday is transfers calls and my comp thinks he will get transferred because he has been here for 7 and a half months now, but he said that last time so you never know. I will let you all know next week if anything changes. 

Today has already been a great day!! This morning at 6 we went over to a member’s house and had breakfast with Donald before he went to school. Donald is one of the young men here that is awesome!! He goes teaching with us a lot and gives us rides when we need them. The young men are great in this ward!!!

Oh yeah and I finally got a hair cut by one of the sisters in the ward. Well I think that is about it.  Until next week!

 Love you all!

Love, Elder Fletcher

Bringing Souls to Christ

Family and Friends,

Well it is Monday again and you know how much I love Mondays!!!  Well this week was a pretty good week but not the best but that's okay it will be better this week.

We have a new investigator and he is awesome.  He knows the bible so well that it is kind of scary to teach him.  We were talking about baptism on Saturday and asked if he could get baptized the next day.  I have never had any one ask me that.  He came to church yesterday and really enjoyed it.  So tomorrow we are doing to set up a date that he can work towards. 

On Wednesday during lunch we ran into a less active family that we have been trying to get a hold of for about a month now.  We invited them to church and they came.  They invited us to dinner yesterday and had a great conversation.  We are going back on Friday.  It was crazy that we finally got to talk to them.  Well that is about it for the week and I need to go now love you all.

-Love Elder Fletcher

Best New Year's Eve Ever!

Hey Everyone,

 I hope you all had a great New Year's Eve and New Year's Day.  I had one of the best New Year's Eve that I will never forget.  Well this week was one of my best yet in the mission.

 It was funny I was in Saginaw for splits with an elder named Elder Coon.  We had been door knocking in the rain for 4 hours and I was cold.  I had just had it with everything, because the last couple of people just didn't want anything to do with us.  I told Elder Coon that I was done and I was going back to the car.  He told me, "Don't you remember that we prayed for a miracle?"  He said that we needed to go for a little more.  I said OK but I wasn't going to talk anymore though. We knocked on one or two doors and when the lady opened the door and she looked right at me so I started to talk.  She let us in and had amazing lesson with her.  She was so excited.  Before we could even show her The Book of Mormon she asked us if we had one and if she could have it.  Before we left we invited her to be baptized and she said yes. I was so glad that Elder Coon pushed me to go on because if I would of quit to see and we wouldn't have met that lady.

  

      Saturday, Steve was baptized by his friend from Detroit.  It was AWESOME!!!  It was kind of funny because we had to start 15 minutes late because we had to wait for some people that were helping out.  Yesterday, Steve was confirmed a member of the church and was able to receive the Holy Ghost.  It was a great experience.  Well, I love you all and miss all of you.

 Love Elder Fletcher

Merry Christmas a day late!!!

            Merry Christmas one day late!  Haha.  I hope you all had a great Christmas.  Well I had a great Christmas.  Church was great.  I was in the ward choir for the first time ever which was fun.  We got Steve our investigator that is going to be baptized on Saturday to come to church and he loved it.  After that I got to talk to my awesome family. I love all of you and it was nice to hear all of their voices.  We went with a family that is in the ward and got to spend the rest of the day with them.  Christmas was a lot better than I thought it was going to be for sure.  Hey thank you everyone that sent me a package or a card.  I was so grateful and made me feel so loved.  

            So the rest of the week was great too.  Tuesday and Wednesday we had leadership training with the mission president and the AP's.  I learned so much and it was very motivational.  Half of the day on Wednesday we had a Christmas party, where we played different games and watched Joy to the World.  The second half of the day I went on splits with one of the zone leaders and got to stay at Central Michigan University.  It was kind of weird because school was out so it was very empty.  That was about it for the week.

Love you and miss you all!

Love Elder Fletcher!!!!!!!

Merry Christmas!

Family and Friends,

Hey how's it going?  Another week has gone by and it is Monday again! Oh how I love Mondays now.  Merry Christmas everyone, well almost merry Christmas.  So this week was great and there was a lot that went on.  Steve is getting baptized on the 31st and went to church yesterday and the ward Christmas party. The ward Christmas party was awesome!  I think that was the best ward Christmas party I have ever been to.  The kids all dressed up and put on a little Nativity program for everyone and it was done very well.  I think this is the first time that I really have understood the true meaning of Christmas.  It has been nice not worrying about shopping.  After sharing the story of Christ's birth to so many people and serving so many different people.  

It was kind of funny we were door knocking an apartment complex and we were going to give the Joy to the World DVD to the apartment complex.  The lady at the door looked at us and starting yelling.  She said that we couldn’t be there and wanted to have us escorted to our car making sure that we left haha.  On Friday we almost got kicked out of another one because some guy saw us and was headed for the management office.  Before the management could come to talk to us we left.  Well that is all the exciting news this week

Love you all and have a Merry Christmas!

Love Elder Fletcher 

P.S. Mom I will be calling you when you get out of church, can't wait to talk to you!!!!!

White Christmas with Baptisms

Family and Friends,

Hi how is everyone doing?  So we had transfer calls were on Friday and it was kind of shocking, both of us are staying.  We will be together for 4 and 1/2 months.  The only thing that did change was that my comp was made a district leader and now we will have a car full time.  I was excited about that, so I don't have to walk in the snow for at least 6 weeks!  

We got a crazy call this week.  Our bishop called and told us that he got a call saying that a guy in our area wanted to be baptized.  At first we thought it was a prank because we have been getting prank calls about that.  We called him and he said that one of his best friends wasn’t a member and he talked to the missionaries from the Detroit mission and he wanted to be baptized.  We went and met with him Thursday and Friday and taught him about the restoration.  He said that was the best news he has ever heard.  He has a baptism date for the 31st of December so we could have two baptisms that day. That is about all of my exciting news this week. 

Love you all.

 LOVE, ELDER FLETCHER

Happy Holidays

Hey what's up?  

So this week was great and crazy.  Tuesday and Wednesday we got about 6 in of snow and all the schools here had a snow day.  I thought that was cool.  Wednesday morning we had to walk to a member’s house to get a ride to district meeting because his phone was down.  I don't think I have walked that far in the snow before, but it was kind of fun.

My comp was funny because he is from Mississippi and he hadn't seen snow like that before.   All of the snow is melted now but expecting more soon.  Time has gone by so fast I cant' believe that I have been gone 3 months and Christmas is just around the corner.  Transfers are going to be next Tuesday so I might get transferred somewhere else but I hope not.  If so I will just have to go with it.  We had to push our investigators baptism to the 31st and he is way excited.  We finally got him a ride to church yesterday and he was excited to be there.  Yesterday we got to go to the church and watch the Christmas devotional and I really enjoyed.  I will let you know next week if I am staying or going somewhere else in Michigan. Love you all!

 Love, Elder Fletcher