So I'll begin with a funny one. So we had dinner with this guy, Mike
in our ward at Olive Garden and the night before, we confirmed the
dinner appointment and we are all good to go. Well the next day it was 4:30 and we were finally meeting with a less active who kept postponing out appointment, we finally get in to see her and it is 4:30
and the only way we got this appointment was to have her paint our
nails. So we start painting our nails and her active sister comes out
and we start talking and she starts telling us she has a date at 5 at
Olive Garden. We stayed quiet for a second and then we asked with who
and she said Mike. Oh my gosh Sister Spencer and I almost lost it
laughing, but we did not cause we were so worried Mike had forgotten and
that it would be so awkward. Well she goes on to tell us how she is
worried about this first date with him and how it will be awkward cause
elders are coming along. I look at her and say "actually it's us." Mike
comes to pick her up and we follow them in our car and just panicked the
whole time and laughed, cause well we were going on a date...So
awkward...unique missionary problem...single ward missionaries problems.
We finally get the the restaurant and actually it was not nearly as
awkward as I thought it would be, but it was still pretty weird. It
would get silent really fast and so sister Spencer and I kept the
conversations going and half way though we both just stopped cause we
were thinking we were taking over the date...and our conversation was
all missionary related it was great haha. So funny! At one point were
were talking with Anna, (she is a RM) and we are talking about missions
and Mike answers his phone and starts talking to his mom all about
problems he was having with renters haha for like 7 minutes! At the end
of the dinner we still shared a message! I was pretty proud of that,
haha on a date at the Olive Garden and we still shared a gospel message!
I was so happy when that dinner was over! The next day we had another
scenario like that, but not nearly as bad haha.
Ok now to the best part of the week that honestly was some of the best days of my life. On Friday at about 3pm
it started We called Korrin to go over the baptismal question with her
since her interview was later that night. I read the questions to her
and I could feel the spirit so strong. The best part was the last
question, which was something to the effect "are you ready to make this
covenant with you Heavenly Father?" I realized at that moment how
special the next day would be, how special her baptism would be and how
happy Heavenly Father was to see her make this covenant. After asking
the question she replied immediately and said "Heck ya!" I could feel
the happiness. I honestly can't explain it very well, but it was such a
strong confirmation of how much Korrin was ready for baptism.
At 7pm on Friday
Korrin and her mom met in the church parking lot and walked in together
for her interview. Her mom met her there cause she had just arrived
from Denver and made it just in time. It was so important to Korrin to
have her mom there and it was important for her mom to be there for
Korrin! How amazing is that! She came all the way from Denver, switched
places with her husband so that he could be with their son who is in the
hospital so that she could come back and go through this whole process
with Korrin. She went into the interview with her and after we went over
all the questions they still had about what they need to do for the
baptism and everything. Then we had a lesson, our last one before the
baptism and her mom was there :) We talked about following the prophet
and Korrin said she knows Thomas S Monsen is a prophet and she knows
Hinckley was one also. She told us her mom sends her a quote everyday
from President Hinckley or President Monsen. Korrin told us how her mom
is just like a member and her mom said "I do everything a member does, I
just can't make it official cause of circumstances." WOW! Korrin's mom
has been so influential on her daughter, she has been one of the biggest
missionaries in Korrins life, yet she is not a member! How crazy is
that! It is so cool and I know that she will join soon, I know that
things will work out so that she can become a member soon :)
Ok now to Saturday!
Wow just thinking about it I have chills. There were so many people
there that we had to do the program in the chapel, our chapel was full!
There was more people there to support her at her baptism than how many
people usually show up for church! So many people came to support her! I
know I will most likely never see a baptism like that ever again. The
talks were wonderful :) We then walked over to the font, and there were
not enough chairs , there was about a hundred people trying to shove
into the tiny Relief Society room we have. Her mom stood right by the
stairs in the font and we were on the other side. What a powerful
experience to see her immersed in water and come up, pure, clean, and
now entered into that covenant. Her dreams coming true. What a beautiful
daughter of God she is. She is a special daughter of God. After the
baptism everyone went back to the chapel and I just prayed in the
chapel. I couldn't express in my prayer how thankful I am to heavenly
Father. There are just not words to express. I know he understands
though. I just kept thinking How happy I was to have met an amazing
friend and to share this experience with her. I am so thankful that I
could be part of Korrin's baptism. I can't express my joy! After Korrin
came back in, Brother Jones in the bishopric welcomed her to the ward.
That man can talk! He talked about how she was a pioneer! One thing that
really struck me is well 1st that she really is! All of her posterity
will have the gospel because of her choice! That is kinda like me, if
dad was not a member our family would be a lot different so I am so
thankful that he joined the church and that I was born into it. Also I
thought about her mom and how even though she is not a member, all of
her posterity will be members as well because of Korrin. I believe that
one blessing that will be given to Korrins for her choice is that her
mom will be able to be baptized. Korrin had all of her grandparents
there and they are not members! How awesome is that ! Oh MY GOSH! At the
end of the program, we closed with Korrin bearing her testimony! She
bore her testimony of a little bit of everything and she specifically
talked about the sacrament and how happy she is that she would be able
to take it the next day. She said something that never hit me till she
said it. She said that she loves the fact that on Sunday
the first thing you eat is the sacrament, which represents the blood
and the body of Christ. This is what helps you hold on till the end of
the fast as well as the rest of the week! How cool is that! We have to
fully rely and partake of our Savior's mercy to be able to get
throughout the week :) I thought that was amazing!
After the baptism we took a ton of pictures! So I will be sending some of those for you today :) Ok now to Sunday. When Korrin was confirmed on Sunday
she recieved honestly probably one of the most powerful blessings I
have ever heard besides a patriarchal blessing. She was told that she
was a pioneer and that because of her choice family would follow. It
talked about how the Holy Ghost will help her with missions her as well
as her mission! Wow! She will be a missionary :) I just cried. Korrin is
one of my best friends now, she is someone I feel like I needed to meet
so that she could help me and I could help her. Heavenly Father has a
plan and I love seeing it unfold. I am so excited to see where Korrin
goes in life.
OK I now have to write another funny story. On Sunday
Ben came, he is our investigator with aspergers. Right before church
started We were talking to him and Liza, a girl in our ward who is
beautiful, and preparing for her mission, she comes to us and says hi to
him. He says "Camile?" This is the name of another girl he thought was
cute. Well she says "No, it's Liza" and Ben just stands up and yells
"Liza!" with open arms bahahahha! Then it gets better. Liza has a
wonderful voice and did a musical number later in the meeting. After she
finished you hear Ben just started clapping fast and loud, and as she
comes down from the podium he gets up and meets her half way down the
isle and says "Good job" and just wraps his arms around her and starts
patting her back! I tried so hard not to laugh but I totally lost it and
the sister Spencer lost it and we just laughed. President Williams was
there from the stake presidency...worst timing ever! Hahaha I tried so
hard to contain my self and it took so much self control to stop
laughing. After he wanted to talk to her but we convinced him to come to
the gospel principles class with us..and guess what...we get in there
and there she is..she is teaching! Bahahahah he sat right up front. But
moved to sit by us and commented on everything she said haha. Ben is
just awesome! It was so funny! Then in relief society Nancy Joy, who is
Ben's friend, (she is also speicial needs). She asked us all to write a
note to Ben on this piece of paper she had. We asked why and this was
her response "I told Ben to stop talking about his girlfriend Lucy,
because I am just sick and tired of it, and well I think I might have
hurt his feelings." Bahahahahaha funniest and best Sunday ever! Ben's girlfriend is lucy and she lives in Bozeman. Anyways we all signed it and she gave it to him.
Yesterday was the best Sunday
of my mission. A powerful confirmation and then Ben and Nancy just
cracked me up! OH also we had a crazy hail storm that destroyed trees
here and just was awful, dented cars, it was scary they were literally
golf ball size hail! It came out of no where and we barely got into our
dinner appointment, if we were another 15 seconds we could have been
hit by the hail! I have never seen such a ominous storm! The clouds
moved so fast and the wind went crazy! It was so loud and scary and the
hail was awful. An hour later the sky was totally clear! Crazy how that
works...anyways Well I love all of you and I hope you have a great week!
-Love Andrea
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