Bloxham Missionary News: Elder Bloxham

Hey family!!! All is well, i'm in a new area called West Chester, Ohio! It is has a huge ward, and everybody is like way Wealthy!!! When i drive around it feels exactly like driving through the Patterson's neighborhood. I kinda like it actually. It is very beautiful, trees everywhere!!!! I'm excited to see how the work progresses here :) I got a new companion as well. His name is Elder Smith from Orange County, California! He's a surfer dude!! Haha! I'm not kidding, he is EXACTLY like Josh Davis. So chill, and so awesome! It's just like serving with my best bud out here! I love it!!!!! He's been out for 19 months and he was born in West Chester. (mission born) So he started his mission in West Chester, and now might be finishing it here! Pretty crazy! We got double transferred into this area which is sweet because that means it's our time to get this area's crap together!!! They need a miracle, thats why me and Elder Smith are here!! Gotta make something happen :)

But being here in this area, just for this short time, it has gotten me Ward missionary work trunky. haha it makes me think about you guys at home and the missionary work you could be doing there. Seriously, every single person at home should be active hahah!!! It's just too much fun to go to church and have this gospel in your life! Like what the heck people.... But there is this kid named Ammon Guffy. He is the Stake President's son and he is 16. The most missionary minded person i have ever met! He gave a talk last sunday, (the one before we got here) and took up 35 minutes talking about missionary work the whole time. Then he gets up in front of the priesthood yesterday and the first thing he says is "Hey the best way to welcome the new missionaries is to get them referrals!" All of the investigators that the missionaries were teaching before came from his friends. He's so sick!!!

This new area gets me so stoked to do missionary work. It's a way awesome jump start, getting doubled in, and we can do whatever we want and we decide how the work pans out. Awesome!!!!

I have a very strong testimony of missionary work within the ward. That is the best way to bring people to know of this gospel. I think about it now, and i could have done so much more when i was home to get people to have this in their life! it's almost dumbfounding that i didn't take that opportunity! But that is why i want to ask you all to do it. Branch out. Get outside of the comfort zone and invite somebody to church. Make it a goal to get a new friend to church every single Sunday! And just like Ammon Guffy said, get those missionaries referrals!! I know first hand how great they are, so get the missionaries there referrals :)

I love you guys so much and i hope your week has been awesome!! :)

-Elder Bloxham