Week 11: FIRST BAPTISM!!!

Not much really happened this week. Just brought someone into the kingdom of God through the waters of baptism. That's all. It was seriously so awesome. If you remember, last week a 10 year old boy named Dustin came up to us asking when he could be baptized, so this week we went through all the lessons with him and set up the baptism. That was the highlight of this week. Elder Powell was the one who actually performed the ordinance and Elders Williams and Bradley gave talks, and I played the piano of course. The Spirit was super strong last night. The rest of last night I was thinking about how true the scripture in D&C 18:15 is which says: "And if it so be that you should labor all your days in crying repentance unto this people, and bring, save it be one soul unto me, how great shall be your joy with him in the kingdom of my Father!" Everything about the baptism went smoothly. However, when we were cleaning up afterwards, my phone took a dive in the font. This is the part where I tell my mom to not freak out, because my phone is completely okay. Apparently my version is partially waterproof. How did my phone end up in the font? Well we tried to pull the plug to drain the font, but the string came unattached, so I tried to pull the plug with something that had a hook on the end of it. Unfortunately, while I was leaning over to do so, my phone slipped out and sunk right to the bottom. So Elder Powell just changed back into his wet clothes and retrieved my phone and pulled the plug. I put my phone in rice overnight, and it's been just fine.

Another awesome thing that happened this week: at the beginning of the transfer we had an 9 year old named Daira on date for baptism, but she and her grandma went on a trip to California. The week before last they returned and came to church with 3 other UBC's (unbaptized children), and two of them are of baptizing age. This week we got Daira, Daniel, and Jasmin all on date for baptism this Saturday. What's even better is that all three of them came to the baptism last night and are super excited to be baptized. So next Sunday we'll have 4 confirmations at church.

The only other things that happened last week was that we did service for some older lady who had a lot of trash in her yard that needed cleaning out. We did that on Saturday, and on the way there we got a call from the mission president about transfers. Elder Williams and I will be staying in Lacey and having Elder Torrico from Bolivia come and follow-up train us. Then we'll also be getting a greenie that us three will be training. Elder Powell who has been in Lacey for 2 transfers is going to Forks. Apparently they need a Spanish speaker up there so that'll be exciting for him. For anyone who doesn't know where Forks is, it's in the middle of a rainforest on the northwestern area of the Washington peninsula. It's also miles from civilization and it's where Twilight was filmed. As for Elder Bradley, he has only been in Lacey for the one transfer and he is going to the Tacoma Spanish branch. He'll be follow-up training 3 other Spanish elders.

Hope you all have a wonderful week! Happy Holidays!

Our last picture together before heading our separate ways.

Chilling while filling up the font

The four of us with Dustin

New companionship