Conference Time!

yeah conference was really good. it would have been better if all the investigators we invited had come but i guess that´s the mission. But yeah, we got to hear all of the sessions but the conference cds would still be greatly appreciated since we had to watch the priesthood session in spanish, and though i understood everything, you just don´t get the same emotion and feeling when listening to a translator as when listening to the real thing.

yeah when the prophet started talking about the rome temple, he started off all mysteriously, i leaned forward in my chair and thought "is he about to announce the temple in Far West!?!" but no, it was just rome haha.

Well i have an incredible miracle story for you guys this week. i´ll have to write the shortened version but the full version is in my journal so you´ll hear it when i get home in a year haha.

it happened on my year mark, the 31st of march. i woke up and thought, "it would be cool to baptize someone on my year mark." i didn´t know how that would then be completed later that day. we went through a normal day and then at 6 at night, the hermanas who are in Pico Truncado, a 40 minute drive from my area called and said they were having an emergency baptism of a family whose dad is leaving to work and won´t come back for four months. they had called president, and he had told them to baptize them today. there is more of a miracle in that part of the story but it´s hard to describe over email. so the hermanas had called us saying how they needed baptismal clothing right away. so we miraculously got the clothes, and then managed to somehow get a ride down there and the guy was booking it at 100mph down the free way(which is way faster than i´ve gone in a long time) and we got there at 7:30 and the dad had to leave at 8:15 and they were still doing the baptismal interviews. then we saw that there was only about a foot and a half of water in the font because the church had run out of water. the members were bringing big buckets of water to try to fill it up more but eventually we had to do the baptisms, we were out of time. so the hermana asked me to do the baptisms and i was in the font, kneeling, while the person sat in the water and i lowered them back and just managed to get them all the way under the water haha. it was pretty intense. then the dad left and caught his bus so everything worked out great in the end. it was a few hours of insanity but i got to baptize some people on my year mark! haha.

anyway, that was the short version so expect a much better telling of that in exactly one year! love you!

elder newey