Elder Bloxham - Great Week!!!

This week has been so amazing!! We have been having so much success and so many humbled nice people here in Dayton! I love it so much!

     So we got transfer calls this morning and..... I'm staying in Dayton with Elder Sunderland... AND, we are both training new missionaries!!!!!!!!!! So we will be staying in our apartment with 4 Elders, and 2 of them will be fresh off the cargo!! Man, this is so amazing!! I also believe i am going to be the District Leader, I will find outtomorrow in transfer meeting. But it is so amazing!

      President Porter asked us how many baptisms we were expecting to have this month and we told him 3. He told us that he wants us to spit out 8 this month.... WHAT!? I think he has some faith in the 4 of us don't you? But we have one coming up this weekend, Aubrey McIntyre, she is Kelly McIntyre's daughter, she is 11 years old. Then we are working with this kid named TJ. He smokes, and loves his coffee, but he is already changing. He used to smoke about 2 packs a day, now he smokes 1 pack every 3 days. He is doing so awesome!!!! He's 20 years old, and has been smoking since he was like 14. But we had an amazing experience with him yesterday! :)

       We went over to TJ's house yesterday and we wanted to read from the Book of Mormon with him. He can't read because his eyes are so bad that he can't see the words! haha, so we got him the Book of Mormon on tape and we listened to it with him. We were sitting in his room because his roommate was playing xbox in the other room and was loud. But, we listened to Ether 12, which is all about faith. We throw it in and start listening to it. We were on verse 4 which talks about how Christ is our Anchor, and he had the remote for the t.v and he paused it and said "Wow, do you guys feel that? I feel like the Holy Ghost is in here with us, RIGHT. NOW..." As he was saying that all i could do was look at him and smile because i was feeling the same thing. He said, "I have never felt like this before? How can i feel this all the time??" We told him that when he is baptized, he will feel that again, and can always feel that. It was such an amazing experience because he is going through such a hard time right now and for him to calm his mind and to feel the Holy Ghost like he did, has changed his demeanor. He wants to be baptized, like right now. But we won't do it until he is perfectly ready for it!

       Amazing things are happening here in Dayton, and I am so privileged to be a part of it!!

Love,

       -Elder Bloxham