Things so far

June 3, 2009

Okay, things that have happened since last time I wrote. This past Saturday, I had two more baptisms. The first one was a nine year old girl named Hannah Hendry. She was baptized by her older brother. The second one was a woman in her 40's named Tammy Gallegos. She was like... over 200 pounds and she wanted me to baptize her (cause it would be my first).

So I did.

She was freaking out because she was sure that something would go wrong, either I would mess up the prayer, or I would drop her, or I wouldn't get her under all the way, etc etc. But I said it right and she went under all the way and I didn't drop her. When she came back out she looked at me with a suprised look on her face.

"You did it!" she said to me.

I smiled at her and said, "Of course I did it. I had faith that everything was going to go well. Where was yours?"

I wasn't scared at all. I think it was one of those things where I would rather jump in feet first that wade in.

That was practically the highlight of my week. I was also able to teach a nine year old and a six year old with short attention spans. All I needed was the right incentive (Candy).

We took two families to see the Joseph Smith Movie. There were mostly kids in them so we had to split where we were sitting. After the movie we walked outside and it was raining. I had to walk uphill in that.

As for everything else, things are pretty slow. We're asked to Hard Committ practically everyone, which means that if we run into someone on the street, we teach them a couple principles and ask them if they want to be baptized. Salt Lake City mission is unusual in that respect. We're not sowing seeds. We're harvesting.

We should have four more baptisms this Saturday.