Email July 15 2013

 Well it has been a crazy day today.  Our truck had a "system failure" while we were driving so we had to pull off to the side and walk to the stake center which luckily wasn't too far away. The whole truck just freaked out and we thought we were going to die haha We just had a tow truck come take it. The dumb thing is that we told them we were almost back to our truck and they said they were on their way... an hour later we called and they said they would be another 20 min so we wasted over an hour of our pday waiting for the truck. So that was no fun. But this last week has been pretty great!

My birthday and the baptism were great! J made us breakfast and it was super good! I don't get a good breakfast very often. I’ve had maybe 5 real breakfasts in the last 2 years. And for lunch a couple took us to Red Robin and they sang to me and gave me free ice cream! We had 2 cool miracles happen. 1. on our way to the baptism N called and told us about a really good friend she started talking to again and she had started going to church with another friend so N said "well if you’re going to start going to church you should come with me!" So her friend came to her baptism and to church the next day and we will hopefully start teaching her this week! The baptism was great. I was able to baptize her and the turnout was great! The next day we had miracle number 2. Elder N has been sick and it attacked his voice so when he woke up he couldn't talk hardly at all. He was supposed to confirm her in church so we went to J’s and we gave Elder N a blessing that his voice would be okay for the blessing that day. When it got time for him to do his thing he spoke almost perfectly and then lost his voice again after that. The Power of the Priesthood.

We got a few referrals last week that we are going to check out this week and hopefully see some success. The only thing that is lame now is that unless we get a random move in of someone who is just ready to get baptized, then everyone we find now I won’t be here for the baptism because they have to come to church 3 times. We got some good news though. They are doing the departing devotional a week early so everyone in my group can do it together! Half of us are going home on the 6th so it would have been small if they did it with the remaining 4. But yeah. It’s been a good week! I love you tons!