Baptism!

May 30, 2016

Alright pretty awesome/crazy week as usual but super awesome because it ended with a baptism!! 

First of all last Monday was super fun!  We went over to President Weidmanns and Sister Weidmann taught us how to make bread! It was so much fun being able to hang out with them, honestly I'm so blessed to be able to work with them as close as I do! They are both just sooooo awesome! Then for FHE it was my turn for the game and I decided to do what if/then and everyone totally loved it so shout out to the Moss side of the family for me knowing that game!

  Also G. has been doing super awesome! He is talking to all these people about the gospel and trying to get us referrals! He is just soooo awesome! Like this old super charismatic guy just being a total baller! He is sooo bold, we have him in lessons with people and just totally says everything exactly how it is and it's so good! Who knew the key to missionary work was an older northern grandfather!

  We also had an amazing lesson with the father of a member who we have been teaching but we have kinda been struggling with the member because she doesn't agree with some things we do and kinda works against us and so his lessons haven't been the greatest but we invited our ward mission leader (Edi) who is super awesome to come help us and it was awesome. Before the lesson the member once again told us not to set her dad on a baptismal date because he wasn't ready but we started the lesson and Edi mentioned baptism and we basically just taught all about baptism and getting him to realize he was ready because he kinda is dragging his feet because he doesn't think he is completely ready and in the end we totally got him to accept a soft baptismal date!!! It was such an empowering lesson! We got out of it and the member was like wow you guys did amazing and in our heads it was just like this is what happens when you let us do our thing!!!!!

  I forgot how bad Albania heat was and it's coming now so that'll be interesting! It's starting to remind me a lot of my time with Elder Holm because we were just sweating like 24/7. It's ridiculous, I don't really notice it's humid here until it get super hot and then you just die!!! So it'll be fun having 4 more months of this Tirana heat!

  Also it's kinda early to announce this but it's like the talk of the whole mission, there is a group coming in in Sept. and it is going to be 21 missionaries as of now!!!! Our mission size right now is 56. So ya we are growing like 50%! Sisters are going to have to double train! It's going to be super crazy!

  Of course the biggest announcement I have is we had a baptism!! His name is S. and he is 65! He is so awesome! He is like super quiet but has slowly gotten warmed up as we have been meeting with him. It's pretty cool because our first lesson was pretty good but nothing super special but what has really allowed him to get to the point of baptism is he is actually reading the book of mormon and trying to understand it! Like he mentioned Jacob 5 in a lesson and I was like holy cow!!! It made me feel pretty good, he was saying he feels like he owes me so much and will never forget me because I was the one that talked to him on the street and first invited him into the gospel! Planning his baptism was a little chaotic because the week before we didn't have a ton of time in our area and then next week is stake conference so he couldn't get confirmed then so it was either rush it a little and do it this week or wait 2 weeks! So we didn't want him to have to wait that long so we just kinda put the gas on! It was an awesome baptism though! He brought his two kids and wants his family to learn now! Super awesome!

  So I'm doing great! We are getting super blessed! We had another member invite us over to their house last night and we are now going to teach his family and another one that had a cousin over and his dad is a less active member! Like what?!? I can't believe how much we are getting blessed seriously! 

Well love you all! Have a great week!

Making bread with Sister Weidmann...so fun!

Baptism of S.!