Alright so ive got some good stuff to tell you all... So remeber Derek? well i forgot to mention that hes a medically retired army guy. He got hurt down in irag. Some brain head trauma or something. Hes totally functional and all there in the head he just suffers from post traumatic stress and the doctors think he might have a sympton of bi-polar now. But hes a way cool down to earth guy thats going through some tough times and the gospel is exaclty what he needs in his life. So we went down to visit him one morning and he opened the door and said i cant talk now and just slammed the door in our face....which was really weird for him cuz hes always really cool with us. So we figured he was going through a hard time so we just let him be. So we tried calling him that night and the next few days but no answer then his phone was turned off. SO we tried to stop byt again but nobody was there so we started to wonder where he was and he always talked about this VA hospital which is a hospital for War Veterans and its about 4 miles out of our area. So we called to make sure he was a patient there and he was there but we werent sure if he would want us to come visit him. we werent sure if he would get mad or not. So we prayed about it and felt like if he is an elect person and wants to get baptised then he would want us to come visit him. So we did, and when we got there he was so happy for us to be there. All his buddies in there were tellin us how he wouldnt shut up about the mormon missionaries and how he cant wait to get baptized. it was so cool to hear that. Derek asked us if the hospital Chapplin called us and we said no we just felt like we should come see how u were doing and he said thats crazy cuz he was trying to have the chapplin to get ahold of us the night b4. He asked the Chapplin for a Book of Mormon so he could read while he was in there, he was reading since he got in there on last sunday and we didnt see him till wed. SO he is solid. Weve been going down to see him almost everyday and just teaching him more and reading with him a bunch. Hopefully he should get out of the hospital the end of this week. The doctors r trying to figure out some good medication to get him on. He says he gets really bad night tares and flashbacks of the war in irag. I feel bad for him. but hes progressing like crazy so were super pumped for him. Also some more amazing news. We tracted into this lady Wendy (23). We knocked on her door and a friend of hers inside just yelled not interested and didnt even answer the door. So we started to walk away. But i just had this feeling to go back and kinda ask why she wasnt interested and i kinda bore my testimony saying that this message we share WILL change ur life. Then Wendy answered the door and since there wasnt another male there we taught her on her back porch the 1st lesson. It went good and we left her the Book of Mormon to read and shes been keeping every commitment we left her and have been reading alot and last Wed we felt the spirit so strong to commit her to be baptised and she wants to get baptised. So we now have 2 investigastors with baptismal dates. SOOOOOOOOO STOOOOKkkkkkeeeed. She just wasnt able to make it to church this weekend b/c he husband is a truck driver and he only gets to come home on the weekends to see her so they went on a little trip to visit some family for the weekend. She should make it to church this sunday though hopefully. but alot of good things are happening and im so excited to baptize them. WERE DOIN WORK IN THE SOUTH HAHAHA But im doing good. just workin crazy hard in the rain and cold weather. My companion, Elder Davis said that the harder we work in the rain, then the hotter our wives will be hahahaha So i love workin in the rain hahaha but i hope everyone is doing great. your all in my prayers. I love you all soo much
Love,
Elder Fielding