Hello fam! It was a great week here in Canandaigua!
There’s a winery about 200 feet from out apartment and they must’ve fired it up this week because the smell of wine is so strong all the time. Basically can taste it when we’re outside haha. Just one of the weird things of Canandaigua. Wine Country!
It’s been another busy week though here. Colleen is doing well we were able to see her a few times this week! We’ve also been working with a really cool part member family, the Heltemes. The father was baptized when he was 8, but has been inactive for about 20 years and the rest of the family are non-members. They called the week before Elder Gardner got here and said they wanted us to start coming by! We’ve been teaching them every week since and it’s been going awesome. They’ve been progressing well lately, and I’m confident they’ll be baptized sometime end of March or April!
Cool story, got a call from the Palmyra Stake President on Thursday. “Elders, there’s someone you need to teach and baptize” Quite the way to start off a conversation haha. Well, an 11 year old in the ward has expressed that he now has the desire to be baptized, and since he is over the age of 9 he would be considered a convert baptism, so we get to teach him! He’s the cutest little autistic kid ever. We’re pretty excited for that. We had been praying for another person who would be prepared to be baptized in the next month this whole week, then President Robinson dropped this one right in our lap. Good stuff!
Amanda Steel has been interviewed and all ready to go for her baptism on March 3rd! She’s such a huge miracle. We’re stoked for that one :).
We’re teaching some great people here in Canandaigua. There’s probably a solid 10 people who have tremendous potential to be baptized here in the next 3 months. President Evans a while ago had promised us that the prophets of who were in these mission boundaries in the past were laboring with us today, and I’ve really felt that verified here. We’re about 15 minutes from Palmyra, and I don’t think I’ve ever had more persecution while tracting. About every other door is either an anti-Mormon, born again Christian, or “knows everything about your church”. When I’ve born sincere testimony about the savior, or the prophet Joseph, or really anything I know to be true for that matter, I feel spiritual strength coming from other sources. I’m so grateful for that and that the Church of Jesus Christ was restored back to the earth today!
Hope you all have a good week :). I sure will
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Elder Judy
Found out Blake sent his companion's letter and signed his name. I caught him red handed and he wrote an email:
Hello Familia! This week was grand. Busy busy!
Colleen is doing great, she has received a calling in the relief society on the activities committee:) she will plan some good activities! She also has received the visiting teachers and is becoming a visit teacher! She is so excited and it’s great to see her light up when she is at church!
Amanda Steele was interviewed for baptism by President Evans on Sunday! She was passed and is preparing to be baptized on March 3rd! Exciting news! She has been struggling receiving answers and ever since she has made the commitment to be baptized and said yes she has been flooded with answers and blessings! Another cool thing in the subject of baptism our stake president called us and started the phone call by saying “Elders I have someone that needs to be baptized.” Turns out there is a family in our ward who has an 11 year old autistic son who has started having the desire to be baptized! We will start teaching him tonight! Hopefully will have 2 more baptisms by the time I leave! The work in Canandaigua is doing so well and I feel really blessed. It’s going to to be really hard to leave this place...
We cleaned up our area book a little bit and now we only have 1 on date (Amanda) and a couple progressing investigators. I’m excited for the miracles that will come and the people god will put in our path the next couple of weeks! This area is the best! I love the members and the people in the Canandaigua Ward!
The Heltemes family is feeling and following the Holy Ghost! They feel so much peace and love while they read the Book of Mormon and really felt it as we taught them the plan of salvation which is huge! Grateful for the opportunity to help this family fill the holes in their life!
We’ve been doing a lot of finding in Manchester, NY which is about 5 minutes away from Palmyra and the persecution there is crazy. Every other door is an anti-mormom and they just want argue. It’s annoying but you can really feel that we are laboring with more than just ourselves. I know there’s prophets that labor in this mission. Moroni, Joseph Smith, and Brigham Young and many more. I feel power when I get to bear my witness of the savior and his restored gospel to people.
Love y’all!
Elder Judy
1.Come check out Pageant this summer!
2. Canandaigua Lake, the 2nd most expensive lake property in America (right behind Lake Tahoe). So clean and clear you can see about 30 feet down into it!



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