Dear Family & Friends,
Well I got a call this morning during companionship studies from our mission president, President Leonard. He said that my visa came through and that my flight leaving St. George for Salt Lake City departs at 5:43pm today. Talk about Packing! I thought I was going to be able to leave from the new airport here in St. George, but that doesn't open until Wednesday (2 days away). Oh well.
It's been great teaching here in St. George. We taught 53 lessons last week (as compared to 15 per week in Price). We really have a lot of success here. One of our investigators is getting baptized on Sunday, which is great for her, but I'm so sad because I will be leaving Utah with 0 baptisms. Each of the investigators I helped teach that had a baptismal date were baptized about a week after I left the area. Oh well, I guess i'm just a building missionary (there are building missionaries that build up the areas and investigators but never stick around long enough to see the baptisms and there are reaping missionaries that go around inheriting baptisms in areas that they didn't teach in before). It's ok though, because I've put a few people on date (asked if they will follow Christ's example and be baptized a certain date). That's a great joy too, seeing people wanting to follow Christ and helping them resolve doubts and concerns.
On Saturday, we were in one of the chapels training the District Leaders (my companions are the Zone Leaders). Afterward, we were walking out and saw some people preparing food in the kitchen. They asked us to help get some dishes down from teh cupboard. We found out that "Jeff Holland's" mother passed away. She was in one of the Stakes that we cover here in St. George, so everyone knows her and Elder Holland. Her funeral was Saturday, but we couldn't go because of all the teaching appointments we had. He would have chastised us as missionaries too, I think.
Please let people know as well that because I got my Visa, the St. George Mission Address is no longer applicable. Please use the addresses listed at the top ofelderdanielbunker.blogspot.com to write letters, etc. Also I appreciate very much the check I received, but I don't have any bank accounts at the institutions here or in Mexico so I can't cash any checks. Sorry to all of those who wrote letters to me the past 3 weeks and haven't gotten a reply...I've been busy moving around each P-day. I'll try to catch up today on writing on the plane, waiting at the airport, etc. Thank you for all the Christmas cards & presents too! They were all great!
Thank you and I'll keep you posted next P-day on how Mexico City is!
Elder Bunker
