Nothing too eventful to report this week since I was out for
a few days with the stomach flu, but not too bad. Our investigator Nickie is
just so awesome! She makes me so happy to be a missionary! She's the one that's
getting baptized this Saturday! She really genuinely wants to know the
truth and tries her best to do what's right. She came for all 3 hours with us
and I guess she started to cry according to the teachers, but I didn't notice.
She said it went by faster than she thought it would and that she really
enjoyed it! Everyone in the ward is so awesome. They announced her baptism and
everyone came up to her and told her they were excited for her and that they
would try their best to come! New Mark is a pretty great ward :)
Oh yeah, and crazy thing that got announced in church
yesterday: the ward is getting split! Sister Vance and I are freaking out! We
don't know how many investigators we'll lose and how many of our ward
missionaries will be taken away! We love them all and can't bare the thought of
not being able to work with them! But it should still be a good thing, it should
really help the work move forward. We're curious to see who the missionaries
will be for the new ward :)
I'm beginning to think that the theme for my mission is
tornados. There were lots of talks in conference about tornados, and then this
Sunday all of the speakers talked about the tornado talks and
THEN I'm in a place where tornados aren't that uncommon! Not to mention my
own spiritual tornados that come up being a missionary. Maybe I'll
get to experince a real tornado out here? Let's hope not!
So there's also this new phrase that the missionaries have
been using a lot out here: YOMO. You Only Mission Once. It's kinda funny since
it's not entirely true, but still a good concept, like "Hey, do you
think we should talk to that guy?" "HECK YEAH! They need the
gospel too!!! YOMO!!!!"
Oh yeah, and I was able to go back to my last ward for a
baptism for the 9-year-old Zack. It was so great! Zack was so adorable! He was
really excited! He actually didn't recognize me at first with my haircut, he
asked me who I was :P A lot of people were like "Whoa, your hair!"
Bishop had a pretty funny face when he saw me! It was so good to see them
all :)
That about sums it up for this week. Here are some pictures:
Before
After the big cut
The final: With my new companion Sister Vance!
April fools dinner
Hermana Candland
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