Week 25. Baptizing Nations and fighting Satan

 First off, so sorry to all those who tried watching the zoom link but it didn't work. It turns out the baptism didn't start until an hour later. Keep reading to find out why...

Highlights:

Last p-day - we were at Fort Casey and the Zls and Stls came. We played a bit of sports but mainly infection tag and it was so fun. It was so fun with more people and I ended up winning the first round! It was so awesome. 

Wednesday - we had interviews today and then right after we had district council on our mission calls. It was super cool to look at the wording used and blessings promised. Then that night we studied the Armageddon and got to teach it to a family. And that was super interesting to study too.

Amber - So she calls us a lot and always says thank you because she "knows we have busy schedules" but then Friday she kinda got mad that we wouldn't answer. But on Thursday she called and she was feeling really sad because of loss and I shared my testimony that the reason why we are on a mission is to help people like her realize the truth and that this is the plan of Happiness. She said she'd like to hear it and so we briefly explained the Plan of Happiness and she said thank you then bye and hung up. Haven't brought it back up  so tried inviting her to church on Saturday and she gave us excuses. So hopefully we got get something worked out between the Sisters so she talks to them. 

Sky and Fred - So we've been helping them once a week moving heavy stuff while they renovate their house and they promised that when their house was done they would come to church on a Sunday! So that will be so awesome!

Friday and the Baptism - okay here's the big one. So the night before we had a text that Taira wasn't feeling the best due to an unexpected miscarriage in her family. So I was kinda stressed the whole morning. Then we had a service and that helped get my mind off things. We were able to get in contact with her again and she had reached out to people in the ward and they had all helped her through it. I love this ward. 

So things were looking up, we were at this service and it was funny because the member who asked us to help her neighbor was taking the bags labeled as "trash" to donate to second hand shops. So the neighbor didn't even have to make a junk run because the member took everything  it was so funny and we even got a sword out of it!!!

Anyways so we got back home and was starting to get things together to go over to the church and make sure everything was going to go smoothly when we get a call from our ward mission leader. Our font is ancient and so he had filled it up the night before(about 3 hrs) and then turned on the pump to circulate the water and heat it. At 4:30 he had got to the church and found the font full of muddy water with sediment everywhere. This was 1 1/2 hrs before the baptism. 

So we were scrambling and I had the idea to move it to Oak Harbor and so we went with that. The Sisters started to fill up the font because theirs is more advanced and only takes an hour to fill with hot water. So we hurry and got ready and left and drove the 40 minutes and because of the change lots of people weren't able to come anymore, which was kinda sad. So I believe the font actually took closer to 2 hrs to fill and we ended up starting at 7. We had two great talks, one by a member and another by Elder Moake. She felt the Spirit and her family she brought also felt the Spirit, it was so awesome. Then we went into the font, and I baptized her in three feet of water. It was super awesome and I'm so glad she was prepared for us. We confirmed her the next day and it was the best.

We drive a lot and I listen to awesome music and a few songs that have been sticking out to me this week are about our divine identity and then in someone's weekly email there was a short video about our divine identity too and I thought it was amazing. So I just wanted to remind y'all that you matter and that you are all children of our Heavenly Father and He loves you so much. This is one of my new favorite songs and y'all should listen to it. It's called, Matter by For King and Country.

Sorry for the short spiritual thought but just know I love all of you and I know you all have the biggest potentials. Have a great week!!!