Lots to tell you, as usual. :) Ready to hear lots more crazy stuff?
Let's start with my favorite!!!! Kevin LaBarge got baptized!!!! Wahoo! I am so grateful for the permission I got to go see it. And for the member who drove me over 2 hours round trip to get there. And for him and his testimony. :) :) It was on Thursday night, and it was so cool to see everything again! The building, the members, my old companions, everything! I just loved it so much. Apparently Kevin got scared and tried to cancel his baptism TWICE that day. The adversary hits hard. :P But he told me afterward that he went to pray about it and just knew he wouldn't ever come back to church if he didn't get baptized. And he wondered why he was so scared. He has a great testimony. So he came, to everyone's relief! :) :) It made me so happy to see him there. He'll make an amazing addition to the ward. he even cheered when he came up out of the water!
Zone Conference was the beginning of this week, and let me tell you, there was a spiritual outpouring. It was amazing! Poor President Packard gets little to no sleep every night and just had surgery on his meniscus, but he still was able to blow all of us away. Pretty sure everyone cried. :) The trainings were great, and he gave us such great motivation and resolve to be better!
We had the greatest lesson on the Restoration with an islander named Dwight. He's awesome. :D And the member we brought was so nervous. He's a convert, and he just looks like he'd always be so confident, but we had him shaking in his shoes when he came with us to teach! But he brought a different kind of spirit, and his simple testimony was so genuine. Dwight was glued to everything he said. It made everything so real. :)
Toward the end of the week ALL of our appointments were falling through. People here are flaky. They cancel. Or forget. Which is lame, when you've scheduled your day around them. But one night, when we were bitterly doing stop-bys of less-actives and Do Not Contacts (I think Sister Platt has a death wish. . . she's determined to visit all the DNCs) we got a call from a stellar member who randomly wanted to invite us over for burgers! So that was fun. :) Her husband is a recent convert and was able to pass the sacrament for the first time this Sunday!
Crystal. . . yeah, she's a story. She was so ready, then Satan threw everything he had at her. As in, when she invited her family to the baptism, they said, "Why are you joining a church that used to reject black people?" Oh, the misconceptions. :( And she hadn't heard anything about blacks/the priesthood, and she's black so she felt like she'd be betraying her people. So we all got together the night before her "baptism" and talked about it. The same member that drove me to Kevin's baptism came with us and was amazing. (Sister Frandsen). We talked about what happened and not knowing all the answers and faith and the adversary. It was a neat discussion, and we left with high hopes, but the next day she came to ward conference late, and she told us she wasn't ready to be baptized yet. She still wants to meet with us and she says she knows Joseph Smith was a prophet and she WANTS to be baptized. She just needs more time. Which is alright. The Elders had two investigators baptized Sunday. Super cool. :)
That's about all I have time for! But I love you all, as you very well know! There's nothing more important than sharing the gospel with everyone! I am so blessed to have this calling!!!!!
<3,
Sister Merkley
MBM Missionary
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