Hi everyone. This week was nuts. It was a spiritual high, anxiety high, and joyous high. Just to start with a little miracle before we get into the deep stuff: we contacted a crap ton of people the last 3 days of the week and we actually talked with a good amount and got some things set up. Super neat. I thought it was worth mentioning. Here's the rest of the highlights:
Temple Tuesday - one of the best days ever. After being baptized for only 2 days, we get to go to the temple with Kat and do baptisms for the dead. It was super neat and I was able to help her by being baptized in proxy of her grandpa. Afterwards, despite me probably having one of the oldest phones, all 111 pics were taken of our group, and everyone said bye to Elder Lusk
Crazy Transfers - a lot of driving was done today to make everything work. It was Elder Lusk's last day so we played some missionary songs about going home and it was pretty fun. My new comp is Elder Niven. I've served around him before in Bellingham, and he's a great guy, love the crap out of him, but he's not the best at sports and we do a lot of sports. Speaking of, that night for FHE we did Dodgeball. He actually didn't do too bad, I was the one that got demolished with a ball straight to the face. It was an impressive shot and the perpetrator left before any retaliation could be done. They were smart about it.
Mod Pizza - on Thursday we went to Mod Pizza after DC and I started talking to this dude in line. He was a freshman studying CS and we had a really good conversation. When I tried talking about religion he said he wasn't interested, but he might come to basketball.
This isn't a story of a miracle of someone being baptized(yet), but it was something that stuck out to me this week and it made me happy
Kayla - so we had a small intervention with Kayla, where it wasn't even an intervention. We just asked if she'd ever thought of going on a mission. She thought it was super cool how we thought she'd be a good missionary, then I said before you go on your mission you have to be endowed.
Haha I thought it was hilarious. So we talked about her concerns with being endowed again and challenged her to wear garment friendly clothes to see how it wouldn't be bad.
Mos - went over baptism again. Idk if he thinks we're broken records yet. Had him explain it to us, added on to what he already knew and talked about the requirements to be baptized. There's basically one: a desire. He said he had one, so we asked him to be baptized. He said when his desire turns into an overwhelming will. Had him explain that one to me. Basically one was a dream and the other had an action plan. So we set an action plan with him. July 5, he will make the decision on if/when he will be baptized. Crossed fingers for 2 months
Stk Conference - Was one of the best meetings ever. First one since the very beginning of my mission and all the sessions were fire. We had Elder Jaggi and Elder Slaughter from the Seventy. Their words were amazing. Also Kat was asked to speak and give her testimony and she must have done a really good job because Elder Jaggi quoted her 3 times. It was great. I got to shake his hand
Demetri - he was a kid in Beverly Park, an area I served in a year ago. Elder Niven had just come from there and had been asked to baptize him so I got to go up with him and be there. Super cool, got to say hi to some familiar faces. And in true fashion of something always going wrong with a baptism, the drain wasn't blocked properly, so I got to jump in and do that before everyone got there. But too late to fill it up more so it was probably a little over 2 feet of water. Definitely something to remember. It was great!
Traffic - on our way home Sunday night from visiting some missionaries, we ran into the worse thing ever: downtown traffic. Unbeknownst to us there was a Kraken Game. And what would've taken 17 min took 50. It was horrendous.
Spiritual thought - but to end off on a good note, here is a combination of some of my notes from stk conference: God has a place for us to go and a work for us to do. If we trust in Him completely, with full purpose, He will magnify our efforts and refine us until we look and feel as great as Jesus is.
Love you all and hope you follow His footsteps this week!
Pics
Lusks last morning run, Niven's first morning run and a lot of temple pics
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