Not Your Regular Mission: When You Pass Over The Passover

Hello Familia!

What a crazy week! We're doing a good amount of finding here, lots of old investigators have dropped us or we've dropped them recently, but the Lord is definitely showing us miracles! There's a fair amount of new potentials we've found that we have planned to see this week, please pray for their progression!

It hasn't all been finding though. Online has provided a good deal of crazy experiences. A man from the U.K named Graham came on chat worried he wouldn't pass his upcoming baptismal interview, so we pulled out the questions and asked them online. By the end he was still worried so we said, "Guess what? We just asked you the baptismal interview questions." BAPTISMAL-CEPTION. Then we asked him if there was anything else we could do for him and he asked us to sing a song for him. Jokingly, we said if he gave us his number we would sing for him. Then he did, so we called him, and I sang "I know That My Redeemer Lives" over the phone. As odd as it was it was actually a really cool experience.

I also had my first online baptism! About a month back I called a man from Uruguay named Massimiliano who had called Mormon.org before and some sisters said they would call him back and teach him more but they never did, so he was pretty sad. I had the time, so I taught him a couple principles of the Restoration and then asked if he wanted to get in contact with local missionaries. He was thrilled, so I sent his information off and as per usual waited a few days and checked on him
again. It was saying he had been un-contacted so I called him expecting to have to reach the mission office afterwards. But then he said he had been meeting with a trio of Elders and was on the second lesson, and loving every bit. Every time I've talked to him I have felt uplifted by his Spirit and His desire. Here is a picture the Elders sent me of his baptism!

We got to meet Aaron and Christina's baby! Jacob is so cute, I just want to squeeze him, AAH!! Made me miss holding babies and I had many a flashback on all the times we'd have a newborn in the house. There's just a light about him, and the family, and it's one of my favorite pieces of the week to go visit them. Aaron's decided that with the new baby he really wants to be more dedicated in quitting smoking, so we made a plan with him. Until the end of February he's going to cut back a little each day, to be cigarette free in time for him to baptize Christina on March 12th! To help him in this endeavor we've written out scriptures for every day of the month and told him to put them on his cigarette packs. It's rather funny, but it's helping him! I love that family so much, and I pray for them every day. Keep them in your prayers!

Aaron and Christina and baby!

Cigarette pack with a scripture taped on top

Aaron and baby Jacob

One fun experience was getting to go out with Sister Evans, the mission Presidents wife. We had a couple lessons planned that fell through so we took her tracting at night! WOO! We met her at Subway (where we were low key stalking our investigator who works there and hadn't been responding to our texts, mission life ð$$$) and went to a variety of places. Going out with the mission president's wife can bring miracles! We started talking to a guy with a family who accepted a return appointment. Then because there were three of us we decided to visit a potential Sister Moberly had met once who we hadn't been able to see because he was a single male. His name is Mark and he's slightly off kilter. Sister Moberly's first comment at the door, "I hope he's wearing pants this time." He wasn't.

As we're teaching the Restoration and get to the part about the apostles he looks up with a slightly glazed look in his eyes and goes "Oh yeah, I know them, they're here." We thought he was losing it a little bit, but then we look up and see this HUGE framed picture of Jesus sitting with all of his apostles in that famous painting of the Passover. That threw us for a loop, and we had completely

missed it walking in. Passed over the Passover. Later, by the end of the lesson we asked for a return appointment and he said he would love to have us over, but he'd be going to jail for a week starting the 15th. Sister Evans just goes, "Oh darn, well that happens." We weren't busy the 14th though, so we'll be spending Valentines Day evening with Mark before he goes off to jail! Keep in mind, this

all occurred with the mission presidents wife. Only on a mission.

We had zone Pday last week which is always fun. It was an Elders in our district, Elder Short's, birthday so we brought a mini birthday cake for him. Besides that we played games and my arms stung a good deal from volleyball, but

it was still fun!