Dear lovely family,
I miss you all and love you. The work is starting to slow down a bit but still busy nonetheless.
Tuesday we
started to prepare a baptism for a investigator. This investigator had
been taught for a while and was planned to be baptized last week but
when the zone leaders went to give her the baptismal interview, she was
gone. Well, we caught up with her and she said is was just a minor thing
and it won't happen again. She got her interview and had everything
planned for the ceremony. I am just so lucky to come in when the work is
strong.
Wednesday was the day of the baptism! For some
reason the bishop here likes to have baptisms on Wednesdays, which I
find weird, but it's California. Anyway we go through the day and then
after lunch we got a call from the guy baptizing that we won't be there
until around 7 or 8 when the baptism was planned for 6. We then called
the investigator and she was really determined to have this guy baptize
her and wanted to postpone the baptism to Sunday and we were thinking"No
way! You pushed this back too much!" So after several calls to the ward
mission leader and a bishop's councilor since the bishop was out of
town and other people, we managed to have a set time for 7:30. So we got
the font filled and ready to go and the investigator didn't show up
until 7:45 and the guy baptizing didn't arrive until 7:55. It was really
scary but it got done after 3 or 4 tries since this was the guy's first
time to baptize.
Thursday was basically a breather as
we recovered from the baptism chaos...and we did so by preparing for
another baptism. This investigator is a lot more solid and has that
excitement in his eyes as he went to church and priest's quorum as he is
only 17. After church last week, he was so excited and curious about
the Priesthood. He has that enthusiasm which is hard to find. So he is
ready to be baptized this Wednesday at 6. I think he will be on time. We
also did weekly planning and all that fun stuff.
Friday and Saturday was
when we started to look at the Part-Member family list. We didn't have a
lot of luck and we discovered that 2 or 3 of them actually moved, but
one of them might still be in the area. These days are the hard days we
had but some things you can always count on like the presence of the
Spirit...and dinner appointments. Apparently this ward is really well
known for feeding the missionaries well. So far we only had one
appointment cancel, but that's OK.
Sunday was my first
ward council meeting. For some reason they only do it every other week
but we have mission coordination meetings every week so that's good.
Every talk, lesson and testimony is so great here. A lot of the members
are some sort of a convert so their testimonies are great since they
know what their lives are like without the gospel. That is something we
all can learn from. After yet again hard times we felt inspired to visit
an investigator we planned to visit tomorrow. So we went and ended up
talking to the father of the household instead of the investigator and
we discovered his trials and concern that we otherwise would not have
noticed because he is always so happy. It was great to help him out.
So
for the rest of the day we plan on visiting that investigator I
mentioned on Sunday and hope that we can get her fully committed to
being baptized since she knows it all. Well I miss you all and I want to
hear from all of you.
❤Elder Jewkes
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