Elder Bloxham - 12.29.2014

Awesome Awesome week!!!! We were able to see Chris get baptized, and then confirmed on Sunday. Very good baptismal service, and blacktisms are the best :)

Then on Sunday, there was a returned missionaries homecoming and it was so awesome! He swerved his mission in Washington DC speaking Mandarin Chinese! But he did an amazing job, and it made me really think back to what i have learned on my mission! The people that I've taught and gotten close to, the families I've met, and the people that have changed my life. I can't wait to be able to tell the stories of this wonderful 2 years of a mission. Absolutely incredible. 

It was so sweet to talk to the family on Christmas!! :) I'm glad to see that everything is in 1 piece, and that there is snow on the ground! ahhh, i can't wait to jump in the hot tub :):) haha!!!

But things are great in Montgomery as always, and we are always reppin' that Lincoln Height swag wit all our homies down in the hood. Dude man we finna get that goin bruh, you know jump up and down switch wit you bro! Y'all i mean? swut i'm sayin bro, we finna hit that up bruh!! you know!!

I love Y'all, and i can't wait to show you my black skin when i get home! :)

-Elder Bloxham

With the Benson family on Christmas Eve

Chris's Baptism

The Madison family

Elder Bloxham - 12.22.2014

Christmas is coming right up!!!! Holy cow! It seems like yesterday was Christmas last year! I was in Dayton Ohio, and now I am in Montgomery. But I can't even begin to tell you the growth I have seen through this past year.

Sad news, the Madison family isn't getting baptized this month, they are having some issues. Not from the Doctrinal standpoint, but they want their wedding to be just perfect, and they want to make sure they actually want to marry each other. But things will go well, I ain't got no worries :) Patrice is in the second book of Nephi, and she is doing awesome, Andre is doing well as well, so 'sall good!

CHRIS GREEN IS GETTING BAPTIZED!!!!!!!!!!! Chris is the grace for this month. We were working so hard to get the Madison family to be baptized this month, but they fell off. And the grace was poured out when we found Chris, to be baptized this month. He is doing so awesome, i can't wait till you get to see the pictures of him next monday :)

Things are going great, and I love my mission!!

Love Y'all, 

Elder Bloxham

This is the picture I was supposed to use for our Christmas Card but I didn't end up sending one....

Nate with his two companions at a members home

Giving a spiritual thought

Nate with the member who sent these great pictures!
I'm so thankful for kind people in the mission field!!

Elder Bloxham - 12.15.2014

It's beginning to look a lot like Christmas, everywhere you go!!!! Eddie?... Eddie? Eddie, if i woke up this morning with my face sown to the carpet, i wouldn't be more surprised than i am now! hahah!! Christmas Vacation though.... Miss it for sure!

Things are going great in Montgomery! The Madison family is doing great, progressing right along, and they are due for a marriage and baptism on the 27th. Please pray for them! The trio is awesome, Elder Davis is alright, he's not the best thing in the whole world, but we are getting him out of his shell, i mean, Seegmiller and I are the exact same, so you can only imagine.... Poor Elder Davis :) Also, Chris Green is doing great, he is on date for the 27th as well! :) Montgomery is awesome!

As I have said in prior letters, the Doctrine of Christ is the center of my life! It's how i live, how i love, and how i function every single day. His Grace is sufficient, to bear us up, and the enable us! I don't think many people understand that concept. Grace is the Enabling power, in which Satan can not bind us. Powerful. I encourage and invite all who read this to, like it says on "He is the Gift" To Discover the Gift, to Embrace the Gift, and then Share the Gift. The Gift being Jesus Christ. Not just him, not that he is born, but that he Enables us in all things that we do! I am seriously on this kick of people knowing and understanding the Doctrine of Christ because it will change you. It is all over the Book of Mormon, so please, Embrace his Grace.

This is a little excerpt of "His Grace is Sufficient" by Brad Wilcox. If I have already shared it, i'm sorry, but actually not because this should be known over and over. :) 

Christ’s Grace Is Sufficient to Transform Us

Christ’s arrangement with us is similar to a mom providing music lessons for her child. Mom pays the piano teacher. How many know what I am talking about? Because Mom pays the debt in full, she can turn to her child and ask for something. What is it? Practice! Does the child’s practice pay the piano teacher? No. Does the child’s practice repay Mom for paying the piano teacher? No. Practicing is how the child shows appreciation for Mom’s incredible gift. It is how he takes advantage of the amazing opportunity Mom is giving him to live his life at a higher level. Mom’s joy is found not in getting repaid but in seeing her gift used—seeing her child improve. And so she continues to call for practice, practice, practice.

If the child sees Mom’s requirement of practice as being too overbearing (“Gosh, Mom, why do I need to practice? None of the other kids have to practice! I’m just going to be a professional baseball player anyway!”), perhaps it is because he doesn’t yet see with mom’s eyes. He doesn’t see how much better his life could be if he would choose to live on a higher plane.

In the same way, because Jesus has paid justice, He can now turn to us and say, “Follow me” (Matthew 4:19), “Keep my commandments” (John 14:15). If we see His requirements as being way too much to ask (“Gosh! None of the other Christians have to pay tithing! None of the other Christians have to go on missions, serve in callings, and do temple work!”), maybe it is because we do not yet see through Christ’s eyes. We have not yet comprehended what He is trying to make of us.

I love y'all so so so much, take luck, and peace out :)

-Elder Bloxham

Elder Bloxham - 12.8.2014

The Madison family is still amazing!! I finally have pictures of them to send :) Now you get to see how HUGE Andre is! Haha but they are progressing well, so keep praying for them, your prayers are being answered!

We are also teaching a part member family, and the guys name is Chris! He's pretty shy, but he is awesome! His mom is a recent convert and she is scared to share the gospel, so Chris hasn't heard of the Book of Mormon, so we are helping him read it :)

Things are going great, we have received some awesome member referrals, the Madison family is amazing and progressing, and i'm happy because i get to stay here for another 6 weeks with elder Seegmiller!! And we are receiving another Elder, we are going to be in a trio!!!! This is going to be the best!!! :):):)

I love y'all!!!!!

-Elder Bloxham

PS - He didn't really send any pictures:(

Elder Bloxham - 12.1.2014

It is December!! Isn't that crazy! But things are going great in Montgomery!! We are still working with the Madison family! They are scheduled to be married and baptized on the 13th of this month! Please keep them in your prayers, they will need it!

Thanksgiving was amazing! One of the best i've had for a while!! The Bensons are so awesome! Sam Benson, their son, is going to BYU and is amazing at guitar and singing. He should be making a recording here soon, so maybe you'll see him out and about! Then we went to dinner with Andre and Patrice! Dinner was awesome, and i now have had "greens" and they are sooooo, not good. haha!! too dang salty, but it was fun to eat them all :) Then Elder Seegmiller played the violin for them, and they loved it!! :):) We also played in an amazing Turkey Bowl!!!! I was lucky enough to get some cleats from a member and i could cut back and forth instead of slipping all over the place!! But it was so amazing!!! ahh, i love football! I was soo dang sore after it, oh gosh i couldn't even walk! I think every single muscle was sore! I think it's a combination between my workouts in the mornings and then football was the icing on the cake! P.s, i ran a mile in 6.5 minutes!! it was pretty awesome! i'm getting there :)

All things considering, I'm living so well! I absolutely love this mission, holy cow!!! I'm constantly learning new things, and different ways to be better! It's so great! Elder Seegmiller and I get along perfectly, and it worries me because these last two transfers I might get someone not as awesome as my last 3 companions! We'll have to find out though, i think Montgomery will be my last area :)

I love y'all so so so much, and take luck!

-Elder Bloxham

Turkey Bowl

Elder Bloxham - 11.25.2014

I am so happy and Thankful for everything I have! I truly am blessed! There has been no better time than this, that I have felt so close to my Savior, and i'm deeply thankful for his Atonement. It's interesting because when I think about Thanksgiving, the thing that tags right along with it is Christmas because we are thankful for the same thing. First of all I am sooo ready for Christmas, it's going to be an amazing time! Especially because people then realize they aren't living right, and they are like crap i really need to be closer to Christ, and their hearts get softened and their necks a little looser! It's awesome because we get to be in the cold, and the Lord feels sorry for us, so he blesses us more because of it! ;) But i really am thankful for my life, and more my Lord and my Savior. His Atonement means so much to me, and allows my same selfish, lazy, and imperfect self, become patient, active, and perfect. Through the tools that he gives us, we can be made whole, and i'm so thankful for that!

We have some amazing plans for Thanksgiving!! We have a Turkey Bowl in the morning, then we have dinner with our favorite family, the Bensons, and then later in the evening we get to go to a Blackgiving with Andre and Patrice!! We are going with them so eat soooo much food! Andre says, "this food will be so good, it'll make you mad at your mama!" hahaha i guess we'll find out! Mom, i'm sure your food is wayyyyyy better!!! No doubt! :) This family really is the coolest!! They are so amazing and i love to be able to see them as often as we do! Gosh, they are the funnest! They're always trying to hook us up with their sisters and friends because they love us so much! hahah :) But things are  going great here in the Geezy, and I love my Savior!!

Love Y'all, Elder Bloxham

P.S. y'all can send me letters, i don't mind :)

Elder Bloxham - 11.17.2014 Forgiveness

A quick update with what is going on in Mongeezy!!! Andre and Patrice are doing amazing! They came to church this last Sunday, and they absolutely loved it! They now want to get married, so Elder Seegmiller and I might get to marry them! That would be so awesome!!!! haha!! But they are progressing really well!! I love working with them! They will be baptized at the beginning of December!

This last Saturday we played basketball with our investigators, and it was so so so awesome! Big Andre is like this 6'5 390 lbs. guy, and he brought Patrice's brother and he was the leading scorer of Cincinnati when he was in High School (So they say, although, he really is an amazing athlete) and it was so much fun!!! And I had the chance to play basketball, that was great :)

With an experience this week, I feel like I should share this! :) 

I think one of the hardest things to do is to forgive. Forgiveness is hard... When somebody has done something against you in the past, several times, you have the hardest time trusting them, as well as forgiving them. I say this because we had an experience when we saw people we love fight, and i realized why Heavenly Father let us see it. When we were listening to the war of words, what kept coming to mind was the parable of the Adulterous woman. When she was taken and thrown down at the feet of Jesus, he knew all that she had done. He knew what she did the day before, the week before, and 10 years before that. He could have went off and said, well.... you really have kept going against my commandments, you don't listen, you this, you that. But he didn't do that. He looked at her and said, "Go, and sin no more." We need to forgive and forget the things that have happened in the past. We need to see the change within the person now. If we kept our mind in the past, then we would have no need of the Atonement, because the Lord sees us progressing, not digressing. So, I invite all to open your eyes, look at the world around you and if you have not forgiven somebody, please pray to the Lord for help to forgive them. As we see in the eyes of the Lord, we will grow ourselves, as well as allow others to grow! :)

 1 Nephi 7:21 And it came to pass that I did frankly forgive them all that they had done, and I did exhort them that they would pray unto the Lord their God for forgiveness. And it came to pass that they did so. And after they had done praying unto the Lord we did again travel on our journey towards the tent of our father.

I hope this is able to help someone, because for some reason i felt as though I should share it.

I love Y'all!!! Stay tuned for next week!!

-Elder Bloxham

Elder Bloxham - 11.10.2014

I just have an amazing miracle i'd like to share :) Stay tuned!!

There is this family that we are working with, and they are so amazing! It's a family of 5 and they live in a place called Lockland, Ohio. Now everybody in our area does not know how to keep commitments, and they have never had to in their whole life, but we expect them to keep them every single time we invite them. It kinda reminds me of Coach Carter, the basketball movie. All of those kids have no idea how to stay at class, get good grades, or even be committed to something. But the coach set a high expectation and didn't settle for anything less, because he knew that they all needed to get a college education. See we have the same thing in mind! We know that baptism can change their life, and we have such a high expectation set with them, that we do not want them to settle for anything less. 

If you can remember when i shared the story of the "Win The Dad" Situation when we pulled weeds for Andre, that was the beginning of the heart softening. A couple days ago on Saturday, we brought this family into a members home and had dinner with them! They had the time of their life, and the kids kept saying, "wow, this house is so big! it's so big!" They have never been in a decent home before, so it was a pretty cool experience for them to see a normal sized house, and also to feel the spirit that was there! But they committed to come to church the following day, and they were set on it! We stopped by in the morning and the mom, Petrice, said "Yes, all the kids took their baths and are getting their stuff ready." They were on their way!!! So we head to church and we were saving seats, all ready for them, then we get a text saying they weren't coming because she had gotten sick.... She had "worried herself sick"!!! Then we left after we took the Sacrament and drove over to get them going. Elder Seegmiller and I go in and just start getting all the kids clothes on! haha, ironing shirts, pulling the pants onto to 2 year old, and getting the dad ready! It was funny because when we got there, they all were like alright lets get ready! haha so it was a scramble!! But lo and behold, we got them all ready and downstairs and 'bout to go. But before we left we gave Petrice a blessing, and it really calmed her down, so that was amazing!

They came to church, absolutely loved it, and to put the cherry on top, we had an awesome Linger Longer after church with some dang good food! :)

When Nephi says, " 23 For we labor diligently to write, to persuade our children, and also our brethren, to believe in Christ, and to be reconciled to God; for we know that it is by grace that we are saved, after all we can do."     He really means it! haha!! We did all that we could do, and then Grace was poured out upon that family! Truly a miracle!!

"Miracles are everywhere to be found, when Priesthood duties are magnified! When faith replaces doubt, when selfless service eliminates selfish striving" - President Thomas S. Monson

Love y'all!! -Elder Bloxham

A couple more pictures from Kentucky

The second night i was in Montgomery, we had to retrieve our love sac back from missionaries that stole it from our apartment! haha so we fit that bugger in the back of G storms car and the only spot for Seegmiller was to smush up in the back and i had to shove him in with the door! it was supppper funny! 

We saw a pretty sweet castle when i was on exchanges! And then of course i want to fish this river! i've heard they've got some alligator gar in it! That'd be pretty awesome!

Elder Bloxham - 11.3.14

It's November!!!! I can't even believe it, but now i have embarked on a new journey in Montgomery, Ohio! I'm back to the second best state (behind Kentucky) and I'm super pumped because this was Elder Hanks' last area he served in before Kentucky! I'm in a huge ward now! there is like 260 people there, it was massive! But we get fed every night, and the ward is pretty awesome so i'm excited! I'm companions with Elder Seegmiller, and he is from Kaysville, UT. He's awesome, this transfer is going to be awesome!

We are going to be doing some rebuilding here for sure though! The zone needs some shaping up, as well as our own area! We don't really have anybody solid yet, but we are finding like crazy! I definitely know that the Lord is preparing people for us to meet. :)

That is pretty much all that is going on right now, next week's email will be much better so stay tuned! :)

Love Y'all!!

Elder Bloxham

The address to my new apartment is 9213 Deercross Pkwy, Apt 1A, Blue Ash, Ohio 45236 Send me Letters, i love  them :)

Elder Seegmiller and Elder Bloxham at a members house in Montgomery

Elder Bloxham - 10.27.14

Today is the day in which we received our transfer Doctrine!!! Elder Hanks will be staying, and after 7 1/2 months, I will be departing the Promised Land.... This is terrible!! I love it here, it has been the best time of my life!! I love the Northern Kentucky Ward, and I love the missionaries in the zone! But I guess it is what it is!!! Now I will embark on my journey somewhere else!

We had amazing things happen this whole month!! As a mission, we have a goal of getting 6 baptisms each month for each zone, and this month we had 10!!! It was so amazing! Every single one was such an amazing experience! Yesterday there were 4 people baptized! A family from Dayton Kentucky, and then an amazing young lady named Angelina! It was such an amazing baptismal service!

We had an awesome Halloween Party as well! Our Ward Mission Leader, Ryan Smith and his wife, dressed up as the Mad Hatter and the Queen of Hearts! Their costumes were so amazing!!! But it was a sweet party!

Not much else is going on, but I love this mission! This really is the Best Two Years!

Love,

      Elder Bloxham

The Buck family has taken such good care of the missionaries!

Elder Lemmon, Bloxham, and Hanks with the Buck family

The ward Halloween party

Elder Bloxham - 10.20.14

Isn't this crazy!! We are reaching the end of October already! I hope everyone has their Halloween Costume picked out!! :)

Things are going great in the Promised Land! But I do want to ask everyone who is married, Why is marriage so important to you and how it has helped you in your life. We have a couple that doesn't want to get married, I think experiences and events from your life will really help them, so please send me an email letting me know how it has blessed your life! :)

We have been going on a finding spree these past couple of weeks! I mean we are always on the grind, I mean find, but we really have been diggin these past couple weeks! We don't have a lot progressing, so we keep on lookin!! :) How we find most of the time is when we have our plans, we see the person who we wanted to see, but then we stay in the area and walk around talking to everyone we see, that has been helping us find a lot of new people. I love it, Elder Hanks and I have the funnest time! We're always cracking jokes, and we go to the investigators level. That is the funnest part!! Sometimes they are crazy, so we get crazy and do funny handshakes with them, or talk the way they do! haha it's the greatest!

The best thing that happened this week was we went to a Ghanaian's house, Brother Abuagye, and he fed us Fufu! If you don't know what that is, go look it up on google, and read about how they eat it! For those missionaries in Ghana, they probably love it now, but must have stomachs of steal!! That Fufu sits heavy on your stomach, and is so hard to eat!!! They say not to chew it, but to just cut a little piece off of it, and just swallow it straight down! It was hard, but definitely and experience to never forget! We also got Ghanaian ties, which are awesome!!! :)

Things are great here, I love y'all at home! Take care and Godspeed!!

Elder Bloxham  

Elder Hanks, Julie, and Elder Bloxham Driving to Rabbit Hash

Found these beanies! this is inside rabbit hash general store!

My homie Roddy G, or Elder Rodriguez, and his comp Elder Marchello! (roddy is in the middle)

The Northern Kentucky district at the Temple!!!!!

Olive Garden, Elder Rodriguez and our Awesome Waiter!!

Elder Bloxham - Hey Y'all!!

I want to say at the beginning that the hardest thing for me is to see the negatives, and when I think of the negatives it doesn't feel good! But I wanted to tell you about this week and the crazy turns it took!

To start it off, as a mission, we have a goal of 720 Convert Baptisms, and because of the prior months, all of the zones in the mission need to get 6 baptisms per month, and we've been doing great thus far, last month we had 4, and this month we were super excited with what was panning out, we were going to have 12 as a zone. Because that is so awesome, Satan likes to take action! There has been craziness in the zone! Missionaries being persecuted, our friends falling off date, rides to church being mixed up! I mean it's been utter Chaos! With Elder Hanks and I, we got rocked in one day! If you remember of my past letters, I talked about Elder Billy and Rick, the Native American guy that knows that the Book of Mormon is true. A few days ago, he texts us and says that he and his recent convert brother John, don't want us to come back anymore. They said it was nothing that we did wrong, they just want to be left alone... That was a wrencher! We love them so much, and for them to tell us that, it broke my heart! They will be found in the future, I know it! They are too amazing to be dusted under the rug.

Now, despite the craziness, it is all made okay by the Grace and miracles of the Lord! When Elder Hanks and I were going to our appointments on Saturday, everybody kept calling us and canceling! It was like 4 straight! haha we were like holy, this is typical! Lets keep these kind of things coming! hahah, but low and behold, the righteous and faithful Elder Hanks, being the inspired man he is, invokes the powers of Heaven by saying a prayer! As we looked at the Less Actives list, we chose the closest one to us, and went for it! This was at about 7:30, dark and chilly, we knock on this unknown less active. Answering the door was a High School girl, and we ask if this was the Sheilds home. They said no they moved a year and a half ago! Now conversation moves to sports, to school, to the gospel, funny how that always happens...... :) Also, her mom came talking to us at this point as well. But they were both very open! We are seeing them tomorrow and it's going to be a progression of conversion, blessed be the name of the miraculous Lord! Sometimes I hate that because I'm like okay, lets have all these bad things happen, just so you can build our faith! I see what you did there Heavenly Father, I see... :)

Heavenly Father answers prayers, Jesus is the Christ, and together, they are hastening their work!!

Love,

        Elder Bloxham

this is a picture of the Elders in the district! haha, but the kid on the other end is Elder Hanks! You can tell we're companions because we're the best looking ones ;) hah jokes!

Elder Bloxham - Conference week!!

What a wonderful General Conference!! These men and women are so inspired! I have learned so much from them this October. It's amazing to see questions answered as you watch. As they speak the way the Lord speaks, it touches our heart so perfectly! I wanted to say a couple of quotes that I loved from conference;

Elder Richard G. Scott "Never say that you are "too busy" to study the scriptures. Reading the scriptures is more important that sleep, eating, or anything! We need to study to scriptures and make them a priority". Wow! That talk was so powerful, and amazingly rebuking :)

Elder David A. Bednar "Come and See". This talk was so powerful as well! Simply, when people want to know why we are different, you don't necessarily have to tell them, just show them :) Have them come to church, let them inside your home. Show them why you are different!

President Henry B. Eyring. I don't have a quote from him, but I loved his talk! President Eyring always is talking about the examples in my life. I also was able to reflect on the examples that have been in my life. There are so many! From coaches, to parents, to my friends. There are so many examples in my life, and I am sincerely grateful for them! This also brightens my spirits to become a better example to those I see as well. There is always somebody watching, and there is always somebody who you can help, as you are already an example to them.

We heard several talks about sustaining our wonderful and inspired Prophet, and I too want to take this time to say that I know that he is a Prophet of God! The spirit is the ultimate teacher, and if we want to know spiritual truth, we must spiritually receive answers. The Holy Ghost has taught me that he is a Prophet, and that the Lord has called him for us today. He has also called 12 Apostles to help and assist in the marvelous work! These Prophets, Seers, and Revelators are here today, for us. As we heed their council, we will be safe, secured, and more important, happy! In the name of Jesus Christ, Amen.

-Elder Bloxham

Elder Hanks & I cleaning the baptismal font!

The Northern Kentucky District with Edith Perkins!! she's 98!!

Elder Bloxham - Telofa!!

This week went very well!! We went on a ton of exchanges but it was fun!!! I went into Covington, Kentucky as well as Newport, Kentucky! Covington is exactly like Dayton, OH, so that was so awesome! We saw so many black people!!! They are the funniest and are the best to talk to! Every single one has such a strong faith in Christ! It makes me wonder how that always happens, I guess white people are way too stubborn?.. haha But we had some funny experiences. There was this one girl that we were talking to and she asked us what we will be doing after our missions and I proceeded to tell her that I'd be going back, getting back into school then eventually finding a girl and getting married. Then left it at that... After Teaching them, we then went on with our walking. We ended up walking back the same way about 30 minutes later and she yelled at us and said "hey, she wants to be your wife! You two should get married!" Haha and I thought they were joking at first, but then I look up and they were like waving me to come back over!! ha I'm like alright lets do it! but kept walking away, I hope they caught the sarcasm, because I was laying it on pretty thick! :) hahaha But no, y'all I aint getting married any time soon, nor will I be getting married while on my mission. Nor to a girl from Covington.... Anyways!!! Funny experience :)

We are teaching Matt and Jeni, they are a recent convert's, Joey Asche, Sister and her boyfriend. They are doing so awesome and are getting baptized on the 18th. Rick is still progressing as well, he will also be baptized on the 18th! :)

Things are going great in the Promised Land, and the Lord is really blessing us with miracles!

Love,

         Elder Bloxham

Elder Bloxham - Hey Hey!!

What a fabulous week! We had an amazing miracle this past Monday night that I'd like to share with y'all!

        

There is this Elder in the Zone and his name is Elder Billy. He is from a Navajo Reservation in Arizona, and he is a convert of about 3 years, and I think he's 21 or so. But he has such a strong testimony of The Book of Mormon, and that is pretty much it. The poor kid has been our for 3 transfers and hardly ever opens his mouth to talk. All he will ever talk about is the Book of Mormon and how it has changed his life, and if it is anything else, he wont talk. But when it's his turn with the Book of Mormon, he's there! It's pretty cool. Anyways, we are teaching Rick, John's brother, and Rick doesn't want anything to do with religion, he just like us coming over. Okay sorry little back story on Rick. He is about 55, is on oxygen, and is a little prideful. He has some Indian descent, so his apartment is full of dream catchers and pictures of Indians and wolves. So it's pretty cool. So Elder Hanks and Elder Billy were on exchanges and they went to teach Rick. And the secret weapon, Elder Billy, gets the chance to bear testimony of how he came to know that the Book of Mormon was true. He says, "all you need to do is read the introduction, pray on it, and you will know it's true" "it is all about my people and my religion, (he always says "my religion" meaning "Navajo tradition") and it's how they knew about Christ. Now we are taught to give strong commitments like "Will you read this", giving them a chance to say yes or no, but Elder Billy says, "could you possibly try it out?" and Rick says Yes. WHAT!?!?!? We've been trying for like a whole month on this guy! He finally read the intro, and then got into the Book of Mormon. We invited him to read one chapter and that's all. We came back 2 days later, and he had read 8 chapters. He told us right when we walked in that he knows that the Book is true, and that he wants to be baptized. "I am going to be a lot of work, but I know what I want to do." What a miracle!!!

It's amazing what bearing pure testimony will do! Elder Billy knows that the Book of Mormon can bless his life, so he told him. It's just a simple fact of what we know to be true! So I'll invite everyone to take every opportunity to bear your testimony. Elder Hanks always says "if you don't have a testimony, gain one, if you have one, bear it" From the inspired words of Elder Hanks, Bear your testimony often! :)

I love y'all so much!!!!

Godspeed!!

Elder Bloxham

I just have a couple pics of Hanks and I lookin fresh! hahaha

Elder Bloxham - Transfers!!!!!

 Can you smell that??.... It smells like TRANSFERS IN THE AIR!!!! Hahaha!! Elder Hanks and I are staying another 6 weeks in the Promised Land!!!!!!!!! WHoooooohhh!!! At the end of this transfer I will have been here for 7 1/2 months! Also, at the end of this transfer Elder Hanks and I will have spent a quarter of our missions together! It has been the fastest, funnest, and greatest learning experience ever!!!! I love Florence!

We had a baptism this Saturday and it was amazing! John is such an amazing man! I will add pictures with this email :)

We are working with these 2 teenage boys, Tyreese and Tevin! They are brothers, and two boys that have never had to follow rules in their lives! It's crazy!!!! These teenagers are out of control, it's pretty cool to hear the older people's reaction when they find out how young we are! They are always like, "you guys are 20!? Nobody these days would go talk about Christ for 2 years!" But yeah, they are moving right along. Tyreese is 17 and Tevin is 14! They are progressing well, and should be baptized either this month or at the first of next month :) They are good kids!!

Jeremy received the Aaronic Priesthood yesterday at church! He is such a stallion! Dad, I gave him that "Bucket of Balls" Poem and he is going to put music to it and is going to rap it for me! I'll video it, it's going to be amazing!! I love Jeremy so much!! He has really changed his life, it's amazing what the Gospel can do for you :)

6 more weeks in Kentucky? I'll take it!! Stay tuned of what the hollers have to tell us down in the sticks!!

Love Y'all, and Godspeed!

-Elder Bloxham

Northern Kentucky Zone! Promised Land baby!!

Hanks and I with our Blue tongues!

Johns Baptism!!

Knockin the T parks!!! #SocialMediaSplit

The Newport Aquarium!! Swimmin with the Jellies!

Hebron Elders, Glissmeye, Stoddard, Hanks, and Yelter Bloxham :)

Sister Howell :)

Elder Bloxham, Richie Laake, and Jeremy Davis!!!

Cincinnati Reds Game

Yerrrr OUT!!!! :) this was outside the stadium!