This is my first week in Indiana!! It is so weird driving through all this farm land and looking across the area and seeing no mountains! Ahh it's crazy! it's almost depressing... But no i love it here! My first area is Winchester, Indiana! It has a population of about 2,000 people and there are about 57 different church's. There is probably a different church on every single corner here, so we aren't allowed to tract the area! Funny huh? There is only 1 Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints here and it's an old tax building that they converted to a church a few years ago. Some of the members were saying, "oh yeah we used to tell people that we go to the old IOU building where we payed our taxes!" haha but it's great here! All of the members are so amazing and have such strong testimonies! The funny thing about the church is they have about 71 members, but about 30 actives... last sunday they have 27 people show up including me and my companion! Haha! I blessed the sacrament and he passed it with the other priest. Then we both gave a 10 minute talk that the Branch President told us saturday night to get ready for! The funny thing about our church is it's not even big enough to be a ward, it's a branch here. so we dont have a bishop, it's a Branch President! His name is President Solomon, he is a great man!!
My Companions name is Elder Elquist, and he is from Spanish Fork, Utah! He is about 6'4 and is awesome! We go running every morning and it's awesome because we just run from one side of the town to the next and we have our 2 miles! haha it's a way small community! But he is the district leader, and there are only 4 of us in the district. it's me and Elder Elquist and then 2 other elders in the Dunkirk branch about 20 minutes from us.
This lady in the branch took us to walmart today and said you can get whatever you want and i dont want you to be shy! so we walked down every food isle and she wanted to buy us everything we saw! we walked out of there with her spending 100 bucks... i kinda felt bad but she was willing and excited that there are finally missionaries in Winchester! This is the first time there has been missionaries here in 7 years, and you can tell by how excited the members are to have us!
Something amazing happened to me on the flight from Denver to Indy! When i was on the plane, i sat next to this girl that was reading a magazine. When i first saw her i thought she was about 16 years old so i didn't really want to talk to her... But then she started talking to me after about 10 minutes of the flight, and she asked me if we were a basketball team traveling somewhere. haha she had seen all of the missionaries getting on the plane in theirs suits and ties and she wondered what it was all about. so i told her that we weren't a basketball team but we were missionaries! she asked me what that was.... and i said "You've never heard of missionaries before!?" and she said no, i have no idea! so i told her that we go out for 2 years, representing Jesus Christ, and then she was so interested i taught her the restoration, read with her the Book of Mormon, gave her a Mormon.org card, and taught her about every single discussion in the 2 hours of flight we had. I taught her about the word of wisdom and about how she cant drink coffee, and she agreed to try and stop drinking it! I told her to go find missionaries when she gets home and to get her hand on the Book of Mormon and she said she wanted to way bad!! it was the greatest experience! she said she wanted to learn more, and i wanted to teach her more but we had to go! ahh!! she also committed to praying to know if this is the true church and she said that she would do it! i got her email so i can talk to her about it, but we'll see how it ends up!!
I have been in the field for a week and there has already been amazing blessings for me and especially for you guys! I love this gospel so much and i love the blessings we get as we are obedient and have faith! I love you so much and i wish you could be a fly on the wall here with me, but i can just tell you that it's been AMAZING!!!
Love,
Elder Bloxham
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