Tuesdays were transfers so we drove down to R. I miss Elder H a lot even though at first we didn’t get along too well and were pretty different he is one of my favorite companions and I miss being his companion. Well I got my new companion and his name is Elder H from Utah. He loves to sing and works very well with kids. This transfer is hopefully going to be a pretty good one!
It was really fun on Saturday I went on exchanges with Elder U who is one of my roommates and we went down to V for a meeting I had to go to with the zone leaders. Then from there we went down to C because J who we taught while I was there was getting baptized! We got there about an hour and a half early and so we went by the J’s house and visited with them for an hour. It was funny because it felt like coming home haha. After that was the baptism and it was sooo awesome! The Spirit was very strong there and she seemed really happy. Also her husband was there who stopped taking the lessons and her mom who is not a member. It was really neat! After that we headed back up to B only stopping at Wendy’s in Vbecause we don’t have one in B. We got back and went over to the Church to teach our investigator J one last time before the Zone leaders did the interview for his baptism! It went really well and he said the closing prayer which is a recent thing that he started doing for us. Before he was really shy and wouldn’t pray in front of us but he did it the last 2 times we met with him and let me tell you. I have never felt the Spirit so strong during a prayer in my life. Now the reason we were at the church was because there was a Valentines dance/dinner going on that was being put on by the young women for the adults and that’s where James was going to be. After we finished with that we talked to a couple members for a bit and then it was almost over so we helped them clean up which was pretty fun I suppose. hah altogether it was a really good day. Probably one of my favorites!
Sunday was a really good day also! For the first reason being that J got baptized! The Bishop did the talk on baptism and the Holy Ghost; he baptized him, and confirmed him. It was a very simple baptism and that’s exactly what J asked us for. I absolutely love the H family though. They are so dang great! they have a son that’s 9 almost 10 and he was wearing a suit so I took off my magnet name tag and put it on his suit and put my other name tag on my coat. The people at the baptism thought it was really funny and called him mini Elder Graf. He looks like me a little too which was funny. Sister H was very happy about the baptism too. And they talked about already having plans to go to the temple in a year to get sealed together! I’m also excited to go to their house for dinner again because J said he would pull out his telescope and show us some stuff which is awesome because he lives out in the far part of our area where you can see the stars REALLY well! Also on Sunday we had a guy in Gospel principles class who wanted to talk to me and Elder H after class and turns out he has been teaching a family about the church and wants us to come teach them! So we will do that tonight! He has already taught them some from the gospel principles book, from the Book of Mormon. The dad and son both already told him they know that it’s true. They hold family home evening every Monday night with this member and he has given them the family proclamation to the world! Its super great to find a member that will do missionary work! The thing is he is only down here once a month for a couple weeks so he wanted to introduce us before he left again so we could get started on the lessons. Hopefully we have a new family to be teaching!
Now about the other baptisms we were supposed to have of the 2 girls... well they still need to come to church. We moved the date to March 3rd but they still didn’t come to church so we have to move it again. BUT we finally met their mom and she is one of the nicest ladies I have ever met! She fed us dinner last week and we have an appointment with them tonight at her house and not the Grandmas! And she just called and asked if we have a dinner tonight and we don’t so she is feeding us too! Things seem to be going pretty good for the most part. I only had one day that really was awful and that was Friday.
We went out to try to contact people in front of a couple stores but pretty much every person said no. and it wasn’t in a nice way either; they were jerks about it. Then we went to see a less active who told us we could come back and he was a jerk to us and a couple other people we tried to see were just not kind so finally I was about to just go back to the apartment because I was sick of it all but decided to go see a member of the ward that has been taking care of her father in law who has been really sick so she has to stay with him and can’t make it to church. She let us in and we had a really good talk with her for a while and it made me feel a little better. Then we went down the street to a less active and she let us in and we talked with her and her family for a while and they are really awesome too just super super busy with a lot of different activities. So the day didn’t end up too bad but for the first part it was awful. But thus goes missionary work haha. That’s pretty much all for this week! I love you tons and miss you!
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