Week 76 Melissa's Baptism

Hello family. It's a new week, and it truly has been a great one! I had my 6th baptism this week! With Melissa! That was really exciting, and I have two new companions, Elder Oaks and Elder Allsop. Elder Oaks is from Queen Creek, Arizona and has been out for at least 17 months. Elder Allsop is from St. George, Utah and has been out for 10 months. He is my first companion from Utah since Elder Soelberg. Anyway, here is how the week is going.

Monday

So we went to Deception Pass, and if you're wondering what all those pics from last week are from, that was from then. So ya, we went there in the morning. We stayed there for an hour and a half. Then since Elder Hunter felt like there was nothing to do there after that time, we left while everyone else stayed and had fun. All we did was walk across the bridge, and then we went below it to see what it looked like. After coming back, we then went and emailed for a little bit. Then Jeff took us to Subway for lunch. After, we went back to the church and emailed for the rest of the day. Later that night, we had a lesson with Lawsons. We taught about the patterns of light videos. After, we then went to Carols Creek to go see some people. That ended the night. 

Tuesday

We had a lesson with Ann that morning. We talked about the law of chastity with her. After, we went and had a lesson with Jovan. Jack Jenkins came with us to his lesson. We took him to the church and had a church tour with him, He liked it. After our lesson with him, we then came home and had lunch. Then we had mormon.org time. From that, we went into 12 weeks. Then we had a lesson with Ariel, a less active who we didn't know at the time was less active. It was really cool to find out, but she doesn't know much about the church, so we are going to inform her about it all. We taught her the restoration. Later that night, we had dinner. After, we went home and had comp study. From there we went and saw some people before our meeting with Bishop. That ended the night.

Wednesday

Wednesday was the day of transfers, so we loaded up our car and Brother Clapp's car and drove down to the mission office. We drove down because we had to switch our car out with Armar's car since the area was getting closed. So, we got our car switched out with a white Corolla. I found out Elder Hunter went to Blaine, and Elder Graff went to Port Gardener, and he's on bike. So that was fun... I hope. That's when I got my new comps, and we went back to the house to drop off our stuff. Then from there we had comp study, and we did our shopping. Then we came back and had our lesson with Orion and Gabriela. We talked about the law of chastity. We tried to teach it simply, but one of the members went into too much detail and grossed out all the kids, except Orion. After our lesson, we then went and saw some people in the Villas. Later, we had dinner, and then we went to have a lesson with Melissa, but she had slept in, so we scheduled for Friday. After, we then went and saw more people before the night was over.

Thursday

We had district meeting in the morning. The funny thing is Sholtes didn't know we had it, so we had to go drive over and pick them up because Elder Jolly's bike was broken. Elder Oaks instructed on establishing the ward mission process into our areas. After district meeting we had lunch with Jack Jenkins and someone he had met while going home teaching. The kid's name was Eion, and he is a less active. He is a grandchild to one of the members in the ward. We had lunch with them at a Mexican place. We really got to know him. After, we left to go see Melissa and had a lesson with her on priesthood and auxiliaries, missionary work, callings in the church, service, and things like that. We also got her interviewed for her baptism. After, we ran over to Sister Schwagert's and visited with her. She was sick the past few days, so she wasn't able to come to church last week. So, we went to see how she was doing, and she is doing better. We watched a video with her that talked about Lot's wife and not turning back with the new year. After visiting with her, we were going to go see the Millers, but he had to cancel on us. So,we headed back to the house, had comp study, and then went to dinner. Later that night, we went and saw Chelsie Duff and talked with the kids. We might be teaching them some time soon. That took up the rest of the night.

Friday

Friday was a crazy day. We started out with going to the food bank. After, we took Sholtes shopping. The hard part is the whole day we were in a hurry to get to places, and it was one thing after the other. They took a long time to shop so we were 30 minutes late to our meeting with Brother Lytle, but we were able to get back and discuss everything we needed to with him. After, he came with us to our last lesson with Melissa. We went over temples and family, eternal marriage, and enduring to the end. After our lesson, Brother Lytle dropped us off at the church, and we went from there to the house to have lunch. Then we went from the house to our lesson with Orion and Gabriella. We had a lesson on tithing and fast offerings. It got out of hand really fast just because Sister Mathise wouldn't stop talking. But Orion read the pamphlet and understood it all, and Gabby did too, so that was good. After all of that, we went home, finished our personal study, and then went to dinner. Later that night we ended with comp study and weekly planning.

Saturday

We started see some people around Jovan before we met with him. The people we saw were not home so we went to our lesson with him which was good. We talked about baptism, and then it went into a conversation about the Book of Mormon. After, we then had lunch, and then we had comp study. From then, we went and saw some more people. Then we went to the church and worked on the progress record and finished weekly planning. After, we then went into the relief society room where the baptism was taking place. Everything went great. We had a pretty good turn out. Melissa did a pretty good job. She had to be baptized twice. She didn't go in all the way, I guess. So oh well.  She was so happy! Later that night, we went on a blitz with the zone leaders. That ended the night.

Sunday

We went to see some recent converts before ward council, but they were all asleep, so we didn't get to see them. After, we went to ward council. Then we tried to leave early because we were going to see someone, but he wasn't home so we just left a note on the door. Then we went back to the church and went through the services. After, we talked with Gabriella and went over the interview questions with her so she could be be ready for Wednesday for her interview. After, we then went home and had comp study and comp inventory. Then we went to dinner. After, we went and saw some people before the night was over.

Well that's it for this week. Also, I confirmed Melissa as a member, so that was great. Below are some pics from this week. Have a good week everyone.

Elder Hammond