(pieced together from letters to Kaylen and the family)
ALOHA!
My week was pretty good. It started off exciting. Last
monday we were riding our bikes to an appointment and I crashed. I hit a pretty
big sized bump on accident and ate it off the side of the road. I got some
pretty good scrapes, my shirt ripped, and I think the gear shift migh be a
little wacked. It still works but when I push it in it doesn't click back out
so I have to do that manually. I'll try to fix it but I'm not much of a
mechanic. I sent some pictures of the aftermath of the crash to dad. They were
taken a few days afterward, but you'll get the picture. The middle of the week
was pretty normal. But the weekend was crazy. We had conference, a baptism, and
another one of our investigators has a baptismal date. A lot happend this
weekend. The baptism was Anthony's. He is a really big guy and he wanted
Brother Bilyeu to baptize him. Bro. Bilyeu is a 76 year old man, but he can
still bowl on the upside of 250 and even sometimes gets perfect games. He is
the most in shape old man I've ever met. He is the best. So he baptized him. It
was great. Our next baptism is on the 19th of this month. Easter weekend. A
great time for a baptism. We're excited for that. we might even have two that
day…
Yeah, General Conference was amazing. We were able to stream
it through the internet but the satellite and the church is broken so they need
to fix that. Talks I liked were Elder Bednar's, Elder Holland's and Elder Hallstrom's
along with all the talks the First Presidency gave. It was a really good
General Conference. We watched the saturday sessions at the church and sunday
sessions at and investigator's house and at a member's house. It was probably
the most meaningful conference to me because I'm out here. I need all the help
I can get. I learned a lot and took a lot of notes. I plan on going over it
again in the next few weeks. My favorite talk was Elder Bednar's about
assessing your individual load and relying on the Enabling power of the
Atonement. I didn't even here president Monk's name during but I just listened
to it again and sure enough his name was said. That is really cool. I was set
apart by an area 70. not everyone can say that.
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| Awesome Baptism! |
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| He'll have a nice shoulder scar! |
