Blackout! Blackout! (name that musical, or ask Charlie)
Man, you'd all be SO jealous of me right now. The sun is high, the sky is blue, the birds will sing, and so do you (another quote that Charlie probably knows :) But it's definitely a Spring day here today. Which is funny because about two days ago we got hit with a winter storm. Oh Canada! Sorry to hear about the snow shoveling, I remember those days. And an eternal family class sounds super exciting!! Our investigators went to a marriage counseling fireside, and they met a member there that said she can make them a wedding cake for FREE!! And now they're all set for their wedding next month. So Excited!! And in a year, I'll be here to see them get sealed!!! (Supposedly President allows missionaries to go, even if they're not serving with them) Yeah, temples!! And guess who's going to the temple this Saturday?? This Guy!!! I'm Pumped!!
School sounds exciting. Mom, before passing nursing school, you probably need to know how to spell Next Test. It's not NCLEX Test, that's incorrect ;) Wrapping it all up, though. Time really does fly. Logan wishes I was pushing a year. But it'll be here in no time, and by then, I'll be an AP :) All the sports sound fun. I'm excited to see Sophie tear up the ice once I get home.
HAPPY BIRTHDAY SAVANNAH!!!!!! I MISS YOU!!!!! HAVE FUN IN SCHOOL!!!!
This week has been so adventurous. Tons of lessons, most I've ever had on my mission; adventures with Colombians (including Colombian Parties); crazy foods, like fried pig skin; decaffeinated coffee, I didn't drink it; and of course, baptisms. So, this last week we helped our investigator and returning member (who are both Colombians) move into their new apartment. After we helped them, they gave us Chicarron (fried pig skin), bought us bacon (because they know we love bacon), ice cream, and invited us to her son's birthday party the next day. He was turning nine, so we decided to go and make him a new investigator!!! So we went, and EVERYONE THERE WERE COLOMBIANS!!!!! Except one Chilean. I was in Heaven!!! We are going to baptize all of them!!!! But, we gave the birthday boy an easy to read Book of Mormon and we're going to baptize him So Soon. The problem with Colombians is that they all drink coffee like crazy. The two we're working with brought up that decaffeinated isn't against the Word of Wisdom, and this week, THREE different people brought up that concern. We basically told them, WE DON'T KNOW, JUST DON'T DRINK COFFEE!!!!! Other than that, yesterday, our ward had two more baptisms. One was a ward baptism, and the other was that boy's sister, whose parents had stopped her from getting baptized until her brother turned 8. I had picked them up a couple of transfers ago, but gave them to the Hermanas when they came into our ward, so I was very happy about the baptisms. I also got the opportunity to play and sing "Glorious" with one of the Hermanas for the baptismal service. Supposedly it was pretty great. :) And now here we are. We have baptisms set up for the next three weeks (after this week) and we are hoping to get more. Everything is coming together and we are super excited for the rest of this transfer.
One thing in the mission that we are supposed to do is teach in every meeting, contact, and conversation. I have grown a HUGE testimony of that this week. A lot of times, we need to teach investigators something, or follow up with them on reading, praying, etc. but we're in a situation where we can't sit them down and just talk with them, so we have to integrate gospel conversation when we talk with them. It's made a huge impact on our investigators. We've been able to teach a ton more, set more baptismal dates, and things come together so well when we do it. It's been crazy cool and has really helped with my testimony of having a language of faith. When we're talking about Gospel-related things, it's SO much easier to talk about the Gospel. Who knew?? :) Well, I hope everyone is doing great. I love you all!!!