Week 40

Hello People,

I am having an absolute blast being a trainer so far. My trainee is named Elder Skinner. He is from Tomball, Texas, right outside of Houston. We've been together less than a week and it's been really cool being able to get to know him. He's really accepting of the rules and if I have to call him out for something (with love of course), he's super accepting of it and adjusts without any complaint or anything.

We're killing it out here in Hermiston, Oregon. We found 3 new people to teach. We are also helping all our current people progress to baptism. It's gonna be great! Throughout the week some crazy stuff happened. One of the people we're teaching named Jocilyn, is getting evicted from her apartment and her mom tried to burn the apartment down. Crazy stuff. Shanna's cat also swallowed something it shouldn't have, and she had to beg in front of Walmart to try and get the money needed to save her cat. Now that's REALLY crazy. Hermiston is an interesting place to be sure. Member missionary work is awesome by the way. We got the Michael twins being super missionary minded. We brought one of their friends to church and are helping another friend receive answers to questions she has about the gospel. Then, we got Annie that had her friend Destiny over to watch General Conference and is helping answer a bunch of questions she has. She is getting her all ready for us to step in.

What we've recently been sharing is 2 Nephi 2:16, "Wherefore, the Lord God gave unto man that he should act for himself. Wherefore, man could not act for himself save it should be that he was enticed by the one or the other." We kinda talk about how the world offers an enticement for evil and wrong doing and how it's our responsibility as members of the Church that have the knowledge of the restored Gospel to be an enticement for good. We can invite others to do sometimes small and simple things to grow their faith and grow to love the Gospel and see how it can help them in their lives. The youth in the Hermiston Ward are doing just that and I love it.

Until next week. Thank you for the prayers and support. The Gospel is true.

Elder Rexinger

Welcome to Elder Skinner and his first area in Hermiston, OR

Hermiston Zone Conference