Nov. 9, 2015

This was a crazy week! It was so so busy once again. We had one of those missionary meetings that we have once a month with all of the leadership of the mission. That went well but it was long and I sat in a very hard chair for a long time. It was still a good meeting. 

We got this referral a couple of weeks ago from some sisters in the zone for this guy named Alphonse. He speaks French, his English is really bad, so it was hard to communicate with him over the phone. We had dinner with a member in the family ward who speaks French, so after dinner we called up Alphonse and talked with him at first but we gave the phone to the member and he took over and had a good conversation with him in French. The member sent Alphonse his number and address so hopefully we will be able to meet with him some time.   

We got a new investigator! One of the goals we set as a mission was to have one new investigator a week, and I guess we are right on track. We also have a goal to have 75 investigators with a baptismal date because right now we have like 61 investigators on date. 

Last week we met with Valentine our new investigator. He’s from Africa, which makes it hard because they believe that all religions are true and sometimes it’s hard to understand him.

On Friday night I interviewed 3 investigators in the Sunrigde ward for their baptism the following day. Saturday there were 5 baptisms in the zone that we had to attend. They were all wonderful and the spirit was there. There were 4 convert baptisms and one child-of-record baptism. One funny story that happened at the baptism: we were told to leave the plug in the font because there was one more investigator being baptized about an hour later. So we told Elder Hopoi about that, to make sure that the plug stays in, and if it comes unplugged then someone is going to have to go in and put the plug back in. In that ward, the father of the family was baptizing his wife, his son, and his daughter. His daughter was baptized first, my guess is she does not like water because she was baptized twice because her leg came up or foot. So the second time she was baptized she pulled the plug some how. Her father did not notice it because he was so filled with joy. So Elder Hopoi was standing at the top of the steps and jumps in with his whole suit on and plugs in back in.

A lot of people thought that was funny and that will always be a baptism to remember. Especially when he baptized his wife. That was really special to see. That family is now complete and they are on their way to be sealed as a family together forever! 

Yesterday was a great experience for me. In priesthood Ben was ordained to the office of a Priest and he received the Aaronic Priesthood. That was so cool. He his really progressing in the Church, and he will be coming to FHE tonight. So this was a good week...

Ben's was ordained a Priest!