8/12/13

For some reason pictures aren't working this week with the sending :/

Elder Barney is great!  This is his last P-Day!  I like that he loves doing service for others and loves to get outdoors and have fun!  He's taught me that service works with investigators because we have a baptism this next Sunday!  He can also lasso a rope so that's pretty cool! 

Probably the most spiritual thing that has happened this week was the baptism for this 8 year old that we helped with.  Elder Barney performed the ordinance and I was a witness and gave a short talk on what the Gift of the Holy Ghost is.  It took this girl, Sierra, like 10 minutes or more before she had the courage to get in the water!  Crazy huh?  We had to send the kids in front of the glass back to their families so Sierra wouldn't feel so nervous.  She feels super nervous when a lot of people are focusing on her.  All in all, it turned out to be a great baptism and one of our investigators, Richard Strickland, is going to be baptized because of the confirmation of the Spirit there that he should!  We're super excited for him!

Arthur, the investigator who had cancer, isn't coming along as we had hoped.  I mean, he listens when we teach lessons, but then he totally changes the subject with something weird.  I don't know how he heard about the church.  I think he was tracted into actually.  He says God has told him to start his own church and that he can make his spirit leave his body at will.  Just crazy random stuff like that.  We are doing our best to have patience, sometimes we're just caught off guard with what he randomly brings up, ha ha!

No interesting door responses yet.  I've only tracted once in this area because we have so many people we are already working with.  The most interesting one I can think of is when a guy saw us and shut the door right away, then opened it again and said, "Please don't come back."  Then he shut it again.  He had a dog, a big dog right there too that he was holding back so we were like, "Okay, cool."

We have a zone conference coming soon.  I'm excited to see Elder Bird there! 

I love you Too!  I love everyone!

Elder Austin Mounts