March 27, 2012

Things have been going really good out here in the Thayne Wyoming Stake. this past week it has been on the 50's. which i guess still kind of seems a little cold but that is really warm out here for us! we are loving it. we found out some good news the other day. the little girls that we baptized, Madison and Kayla. Her mom and her boyfriend are getting married pretty soon, so that is awesome. they have been living together for a couple of years now and since they started coming back to church they have decided to get married and their marriage date is on June 19th! so that is a good thing. we were able to meet with someone who was a non-member who wanted to ask some questions about baptisms for the dead and stuff. but it turned out that this guy was a Christian that went to some other church in town and he was trying to put together a lesson plan about paul in the book of acts. and he was going to talk about what other christian religions have to say about certain passages.we taught him a little about the chruch and he was a really nice guy and not argumentative which was really nice becuase honestly when put into a situation like that people get defensive and missionaires try to convert people like that... but we just taught him what he wanted to know and we went on our way.but anyways our one baptismal candidate, Mickel, is doing really good, she is set for baptism on april 17th.so we are excited for that.  

 

Mar. 13, 2012

this week has been ok other than my health. we were able to get 3 baptisms so that was really awesome. but these sisters got baptized and they were the ones that were the really funny ones that we have been teaching. but their names are madison and kayla and madison is 10 and kayla is 9. but during the baptism madison read a poem that she wrote about baptism and it was really really good. sometimes on my mission i think that when i teach people they really don't understand what we are talking about but when she read that it was really awesome to see that she really does understand baptism! but the other baptism here was girl named tania who is 16. but anyways she was the one that was supposed to get baptized yesterday. but her mom isn't a member and her step-dad and brother recently converted to the church about 4-5 months ago. but it was really awesome to be at her baptism and we were really excited for that. our teaching pool is dropping becuase we are just baptizing our investigators... which is probably the best problem that i would have. but elder ortiz and i are doing well. 

Mar. 6, 2012

this week has been pretty good. we almost had a baptism on saturday but it didn't work out becuase the Tania, who is a 17 year old girl was supposed to get baptized had some woman issues to deal with so the baptism was delayed until this next week. but that is ok becuase we are going to have some 3 baptisms this saturday so we are really excited for that. but the other baptism is of these 2 little grls named madison and kayla. madison is 11 and kayla is 9, and honestly they are the funniest little girls that i have taught on my mission and everytime we teach them we just end up laughing the whole time.

 

but we also picked up another girl to teach named Mickel. anyways the story with her is that she is 10 and she isn't baptized. but anyways the ward mission leader here in the Etna ward is amazing. we always keep in close contact with him and he always gives us people to go visit. but anyways we thought that Mickel was on the do not visit list and then we found out that she wasn't on the do not visit list at all. But we went ahead and visited her and her parents were super nice and we found out her step dad was a convert. but they haven't been to church in a while and Mickel really wants to be baptized so we set a baptismal date for the 7th of april. so we are exited for that. we are also teaching a kid in her class named connor.