Best April Fools Prank Ever....... 4-03-2023

 These past few weeks have been absolutely wild (not really) but I sure as heck have been busier than a bee. Here's the rundown of important stuff that I did recently.....


- Went hiking in Plummer (super ghetto rez town) and we played ultimate frisbee in a park.
- Raked a lot of leaves for friends and the weather has been flip flopping.
- Transfer news came in, I'm staying in my area (not sure how I feel about that yet)
- Played basketball with a bunch of youth in a random trailer park, kinda sketchy. 
- While doing service I found a seed.on the ground and started growing a random plant.
- I saw turkey and quail in the park.
- General Conference was pretty fantastic, my name twin Elder Oaks gave a spectator talk I particularly enjoyed.
- Found a guy on Facebook who thought he was Yeshua and he came to save my soul, tried to get to me to join his cult. #blocked 
- Been grilling up burgers all week.

♡Baptism♡ - So we have a friend by the name of Mary Taylor. My very first day in the mission field my trainer said "we don't go to Mary's house" I couldn't say much because as a trainee you don't have agency (jk) anyhow just recently she had a spiritual experience (thanks to our bishop) so we've (my new comp and I) been teaching her and we were able to put her on date for baptism. That day rolled around, it was yesterday (conference Sunday + comps birthday + Mary's baptism = best day ever) it was super stressful because we were told the font takes 5 hours to fill up. So we pulled up at noon and started filling her up (after scrambling to find keys to get to the spigot.) Our church building just recently had a remodel where the font was added. Mary Taylor was the first baptism in the new font, very fitting since she's been in contact with the church for 10 years and with missionaries for 4 years. She made a covenant with God yesterday and it was a tender moment. Very powerful talks were given and my stress was alleviated as it all went smoothly. This is what missionary work is all about!






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