Snow

It just keeps snowing here. It's not that bad anymore though. Christmas day was the best! It snowed so much. A lot of you got to see that over skype. We ended up getting about 8 inches where we live that day.

Talking over skype was great. I loved it. Only one more to go...

The baptism for Laura Larsen went really well. We had about 70 people there and there was a really good linger longer afterwards. There was a dinner prepared for after the baptism and almost everyone stayed and visited. We were able to talk to a lot of the non-members that came, especially Laura's brother and sister-in-law. Those were the only family members that came to her baptism. The rest of her family pretty much disowned her. She told her aunt on Saturday that she was attending the LDS church and before she could say anything else her aunt stood up and said "that's the church of satan" and stormed out of the room. Laura wasn't even able to tell her that she was getting baptized. All she told her is that she was attending that church. That reaction was a little worse than she expected. She was expecting sadness and tears but she got anger and door slamming. She was a little disheartened but went through with her baptism nonetheless. It was a great experience. She feels a lot better too.

I don't know what else to say because I said it all on our phone call. But I will probably end up writing plenty more somehow...

Candice and Brandon came to church. I didn't go to 6th ward this week, but apparently the talk that was given in sacrament meeting was one of the worst talks ever. An old lady got up there and talked all about birth control and how it is evil and the prophet told us not to use it. then she went on about credit cards and if you have a credit card then you're not following the commandments of God. Soooo. It was a little extreme to say the least haha. Elder Manning was really upset. He thought that Brandon (investigator) was going to be offended and not want to come back. He talked to him a little after church was over and tried to set the record straight. They seemed okay. Then in the third hour the whole class was on the new curriculum for youth. and it didn't apply to them. So they looked kinda bored. At 7 o clock that night they called and left us a voicemail and said "we have questions, call us back". So Elder Manning was worried. But it ended up being really good. When we called back they were in the middle of watching Prophet of the Restoration. And their question was about Ether 12:26-28. So we answered that for them and then we asked how they liked sacrament meeting. Candice said that she appreciated what that lady had to say even though it was super sketchy. She likes that everyone has the chance to go up there and share their testimony. So it totally worked out. And she also said that she like the third hour because it will help her know how to teach her kids better.

 

Maybe that didn't make sense... Point: Candice and Brandon and their kids are awesome and I really hope they get baptized! Candice is already a member but the other three aren't. And the kids names are Gage and Chase. So I could get to baptize someone with my same name!

Trina also came to church. I was in the YSA this week so I was with her and Josh most of the day. I talked with Trina a little about the Law of Chastity and staying the night at Josh's place. Hopefully we will be able to work that out. She seems to understand it, it's just a matter of getting her to live it. She fulfills all of her assignments though. She always reads and she is doing a better job of praying. Things are going really well right now.

Yeah... This email didn't really make sense.

I dunno.

 

We had 34 new investigators this week in the zone. Another great week!

 

Also, we had 81 baptisms this month in the mission! That is an all-time record for this mission. Super good.

Thats all

Love,

Elder Paxman