heyhey! another sweet week! ...well sorta haha. so i was pretty dang sick last pday, not gonna lie. i wasn't actually able to go out to work until like...Thursday. i was in sick almost all of tuesday, then i got super sick tuesday night so i was in sick all of wednesday resting up. Then Thursday, we had a big huge zone conference thing that was like...7 hours long. it was alright....but we had a super super sweet opportunity to see the "Meet the Mormons" movie before it comes out! man it was incredible! it was such a good movie, like, such a good movie. i'm super excited that the church is releasing it soon to be in theaters. i highly, highly encourage all of you to go and see it, and invite friends with you to see it as well. it's a super good missionary opportunity! and if they're not going to be playing it in a movie theater near you, you can request it to play in theaters near you and they'll do it! it's an incredible movie, i hope you all take the time to see it. super funny and entertaining, but spiritual and informational as well!
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other sweet thing that happened this week was this Saturday...we had
another baptism! Sue was baptized in the Alamo 2nd
ward. i had the opportunity to actually find, teach, and attend sue's
baptism, which is super cool. we've become super good friends with her
and Carlie and Ryan, her two fellowshippers who invited her to start
coming to church. they're all great. i haven't been able to visit with
sue since they put me back in the Parkwood ward, but it was great being
able to see her and everyone at the baptism saturday. she asked me to
give one of the talks, too. it was way cool. i've never done that
before. they didn't give me a topic to talk about, however, so i kinda
just stood up there and made it up as i went haha. i talked about the
tree of life (lehi's dream, 1 nephi chapter 8, and also chapters 11-14
for nephi's interpretation of the dream) and how she had just entered
the gate. i then talked about enduring to the end, and how the iron rod
would help her do that. i'm not sure what else i talked about. i felt
like it went pretty well. then sue gave her testimony at the end...it
was freaking incredible. way way way sweet. i'm so excited for her.
she's my 21st baptism! way cool!!!
Sunday night
we had the opportunity to teach the Sinclair family again. it was
great. super super good lesson. i'm getting to that point in my mission
where i actually sorta feel like i know what i'm doing now haha. it's
nice. we taught the plan of salvation up until the atonement. sister
sinclair had a lot of really good questions. she's a
very very intelligent woman, so it's awesome to be able to help guide
someone and help them come closer to Christ. she's doing very well.
Brother Mati, our ward mission leader, did great in the lesson as well.
he committed them to come to church for 4 straight weeks...first general
conference, then 3 more weeks, so she can see what a full month of
church looks like, with all of the topics and lessons and stuff that we
go through. i really feel that if she follows up with that commitment
she'll be baptized, so we're super excited to see that one go through.
that's about it for me this week! hope y'all have a great week! love you!
