Wecker mission

We are beginning to love it here in Eureka.  We especially love not having to shovel any snow.  I think I will make a few remarks about how we are learning the gospel.  First of all, we study the gospel in a couple of different ways.  We are watching and listening to all of President Nelson's conference talks.  We felt it was important to get to know him. His talks are very doctrinal.  And for two years in a row, he wore the same tie 😊 We both completed President Nelson's challenge to read the Book of Mormon before the end of the year. We started our mission by watching all the available Mormon Messages.  We have used these short videos to help review the gospel with people we visit. We read the Book of Mormon every night with an investigator who will be baptized tomorrow.  We will continue reading with him until we finish the book.  We are in Alma. We have read Preach My Gospel together. Our latest study practice is to list all the i...

We had a lovely visit with Nate and his family for Thanksgiving.  We are so blessed to be close enough to visit.  Though Medford is out of our mission area, we can easily get special permission to visit family.  On the way to Nate's we stopped to watch a couple of bull elks fighting.  It was a once in a lifetime experience. We also recently took a hike through  Fern Canyon.  Parts of Jurassic Park were filmed in this canyon.  The hike involves walking through streams.  We did get wet, but it was quite lovely. We are one of 3 MLS senior couples in this mission.  The first couple to arrive has already left.  They were only here for 6 months.  During their time here they took many families to the temple and reactivated about 35 members.  The other senior couple here, the Mullins, have been transferred to cover the area where the first couple was having such success.  Now there are just the two couples.  We hope t...