This was a good week. Not the greatest in the world, but it wasn't bad either...
Yesterday
in church for the first time in my mission I had to give a talk of 15
minutes with 5 minutes notice. The girl who was supposed to give
the talk didn't show up--but her mom did--so as we are singing the
sacrament hymn, she comes over to me and said, "Hey, my daughter
couldn't show up and I didn't have time to prepare anything so can you do
the talk?" I said, "Yeah, that's fine" (obviously). (It was about
missionary work so it wasn't super hard.) But I also had to go bless
the sacrament so I didn't really have time to think at all because I
had to give the first talk after the sacrament. I ended up using D and C
18 where it talks about the worth of souls and D and C 4 and sharing a
few stories from my mission. I think I was kind of rambling until I got
to 15 minutes and then I finished...haha...
That's cool that Austin will be back in NC. It's fun
to have the cousins around, although I think it dooms Mason
more to being a State fan...
The missionaries
were amazed, huh? I haven't really done anything super
interesting. I just visit with them and read with them and stuff like
that--but you have to be patient. Some poeple show no progress
for months and it's normally when you are ready to give up on them when
they actually come back. Others no. Others come back pretty
fast. It just depends.
It
is amazing that Delainey is 4 years old. That is crazy. I still
remember you crying when Devin called and said she was here. I
think there is a picture floating around on Facebook about
that...haha. You can't take pictures in the waiting room now? Weird.
Didn't we take pictures when Sallie was born too? I don't really
remember....
It sounds like everything is starting to come
together. I hope you get it all done. Ready or not...I'll be
home soon...
This week we should have a
baptism. Everything is planned or getting planned and we should be
good to go. It's a young adult who is getting baptized. She is 18-19 and she wasn't going to any church. Since we invited her to church,
she hasn't missed once. She has come a month and half straight
basically--the last few times by herself. But she has friends in the
church. Ingrid (the girl we baptized a few months back) has really
helped a lot. She has become good friends with her.
I took the cook out to dinner with some family of
hers last Friday night and I know I'll be taking some more people out to
dinner this week.
Also Saturday after the baptism, the youth have a
pretty cool activity planned. And we are invited. As the YM President
told me--it's to say good bye to you. Probably because I have
worked a ton with them during my time here so I think we'll hang out
with them a little before we go back to work but it will be fun.
I'm gonna send some pictures so I'm gonna stop writing and send the pictures. Sound good?
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