Oct 24 Email

Sounds like you’ve had a pretty busy week! That’s awesome that you get to talk in stake conference! I haven’t had to talk here yet but I’ve said the opening prayer in sacrament twice now. I’m sorry to hear Lyndsi was sick! Glad to know she’s better though. Yep Sister B is definitely a spiritual giant in this ward and I’m glad you’re going to get the opportunity to meet her! I can’t believe Stephen is leaving already! It’s crazy!

This last week was really good for part of it. We had lots of plans fall through and a couple of the days were just kind of bleh days. But on Saturday we went to see M, one of the 10 year olds getting baptized this Saturday, and we finished up the lessons with her and then we started asking her questions about who she wanted to do everything. We asked her who she wanted to have baptize her and she didn’t know. Then she asked if one of us could do it. We said we could and immediately after we said yes she pointed at me and said I want you to do it! It made my day and I’m really excited for this weekend now! Then on Sunday I was talking with S and her family (the other 10 year old) and her mom said that she wasn’t sure her grandfather would be able to make it to the baptism and that they wanted me to do hers. So I get to baptize both girls this Saturday!! I’m really excited about it. It’s going to be a good baptism! The only thing is that S’s family is from Hawaii and her full name is really long haha hopefully I get it right! 

We also got a new investigator which was a pretty cool story. We went to see a less active member we had never met and we knocked on the door and she wasn’t home but her non-member husband was and he invited us in, got us some water, and said if it was okay with us he wants to study with us and learn more about our religion. We talked for about 45 minutes then his wife got home and we found out she hasn’t been active in the church basically since she was baptized at 8 but she also wants to learn more. We set a date that they are going to feed us dinner and we are going to have a lesson also. It was really neat!

The last cool experience I had this week was on Saturday night we were about to go up to see a less active and a less active family popped into my head that was on the way and so I suggested we just drop by and see if they are home. Sure enough the mom was home who we had never met. Turns out it’s been quite awhile since she has been to church and she was talking about how she was taking care of her step father-in-law and he had passed away Thursday. It was very odd because we had studied Alma 40:11 that morning so we shared the scripture with her and she said that we were great missionaries because we had been an answer to her prayers because she wasn’t sure what would happen to her father-in-law after he died and that scripture answered it. It was a really awesome experience to see that and I know that the Spirit put their name in my mind and it wasn’t just a random thought. We also had a lesson on Wednesday with the couple that has a baptismal date but hasn’t been coming to church and we really pounded down why church is important and I told them that really if they wanted to get baptized it was really important that they are at church the next four weeks before they get baptized, annnndddd they came to church yesterday!! We actually had 5 investigators at church! It was all 5 with baptismal dates so that was very good. Other than that it’s been a pretty normal week. Sorry this email isn’t that long but I put in everything that was exciting/new about the week. This next week should be a really good one and then it will already be halfway through the transfer! I’m super nervous already because I don’t want to leave this area. Well I love you all so much and hope that everything is going great for you!!