Dear Family and Friends!
This week has been full of miracles and just really awesome blessings and cool stories. To start, Elder Fatani and I have been working really hard, talking
with everyone and even getting a couple of people that threaten you - good stuff! We now have 8 progressing investigators with 4 on date. Speaking of on date there is a YSA or young single adult that we have been teaching named Quentin. He is really an awesome guy. He is changing because the ATONEMENT is real!! Well, four days ago he called asking for me and asked if I would
Baptize him on the 27th of this month!!!! This will be my 3rd baptism (the other ones were done by Elder Garver) and I will be able to see Quentin make covenants with our Heavenly Father. The others dates are in March.
My cool story of this week has to do with me almost being trampled. Elder Fatani and I went Tracting down a street, and we were Tracting until we went to dinner. Well we had knocked 4 doors and no one was interested but they were really nice to us! So I made up a joke about moose and how dumb they kinda look, well karma comes around fast. We were walking and I looked up to see a baby moose 5ft away to my left in the bushes. Now if you don't know about moose, whenever a
baby moose is around there is a really ticked off mother nearby. They will trample you to death if you get too close. Now I was 5ft away!! I stopped and said quietly to Elder Fatani, "moose"! He turned to see the moose also, now he is a tan guy and he was whiter than me at
this point. Well that's when I said "where is the mom?" ok great, we can't even find the mom which makes this situation even better. So we too off running toward a members house and they let us in. We stayed and
shared a message then left thinking the moose is long gone.... Nope! We got back to the road and the baby moose was walking away into the brush. Our dinner appointment was about 2 houses down, that's when
we saw the mama, she was in a dead lock stare at us. Good thing I was wearing my brown pants. 😳 So we stopped again and Elder Fatani looked at me and said "Elder Perkins (his last companion) once told me if
you're in danger, all you have to do is outrun the other guy!" So he took off. I looked at the mama and she stomped and came trotting/running toward us, I ran faster than any man alive, if only they had me on a speedometer I would have been on Sports Illustrated
for being the fastest man alive. We reached their house but I don't know if the moose followed us because we just were too fast. Like it says in the scriptures "you shall run and not faint
and walk and not be weary", well I was blessed to have the legs to run.
That is my story and my week, hope you like it!!
Love: Elder Orton!
This week has been full of miracles and just really awesome blessings and cool stories. To start, Elder Fatani and I have been working really hard, talking
with everyone and even getting a couple of people that threaten you - good stuff! We now have 8 progressing investigators with 4 on date. Speaking of on date there is a YSA or young single adult that we have been teaching named Quentin. He is really an awesome guy. He is changing because the ATONEMENT is real!! Well, four days ago he called asking for me and asked if I would
Baptize him on the 27th of this month!!!! This will be my 3rd baptism (the other ones were done by Elder Garver) and I will be able to see Quentin make covenants with our Heavenly Father. The others dates are in March.
My cool story of this week has to do with me almost being trampled. Elder Fatani and I went Tracting down a street, and we were Tracting until we went to dinner. Well we had knocked 4 doors and no one was interested but they were really nice to us! So I made up a joke about moose and how dumb they kinda look, well karma comes around fast. We were walking and I looked up to see a baby moose 5ft away to my left in the bushes. Now if you don't know about moose, whenever a
baby moose is around there is a really ticked off mother nearby. They will trample you to death if you get too close. Now I was 5ft away!! I stopped and said quietly to Elder Fatani, "moose"! He turned to see the moose also, now he is a tan guy and he was whiter than me at
this point. Well that's when I said "where is the mom?" ok great, we can't even find the mom which makes this situation even better. So we too off running toward a members house and they let us in. We stayed and
shared a message then left thinking the moose is long gone.... Nope! We got back to the road and the baby moose was walking away into the brush. Our dinner appointment was about 2 houses down, that's when
we saw the mama, she was in a dead lock stare at us. Good thing I was wearing my brown pants. 😳 So we stopped again and Elder Fatani looked at me and said "Elder Perkins (his last companion) once told me if
you're in danger, all you have to do is outrun the other guy!" So he took off. I looked at the mama and she stomped and came trotting/running toward us, I ran faster than any man alive, if only they had me on a speedometer I would have been on Sports Illustrated
for being the fastest man alive. We reached their house but I don't know if the moose followed us because we just were too fast. Like it says in the scriptures "you shall run and not faint
and walk and not be weary", well I was blessed to have the legs to run.
That is my story and my week, hope you like it!!
Love: Elder Orton!