BAPTISM

Hello!! I can't believe its already Monday again! Time goes by so fast!

So this week was awesome.

We had exchanges and that was so much fun! I got to work with Sister Tesch and she's amazing. Love her! We did service at a food bank, had some awesome lessons, and had dinner at a member's house and it was so fun! Man the members in NY are just the greatest. Love them!

We had a really cool miracle happen too. So we were tracting that night and it was all snowy and we knock on this door and he lets us right in and said that his wife has been taught by missionaries in the past but that they were wasting their time essentially and that they should've been talking with him. We had a really cool discussion about the Book of Mormon and he was just super awesome. Definitely a tender mercy! I'm excited to hear what happens!

We had a missionary broadcast this week and it was really cool to hear more about the doctrine of Christ. I have really come to love and understand the doctrine of Christ so much more on my mission. For those who don't know the doctrine or gospel of Jesus Christ is Faith in Jesus Christ and His Atonement, Repentance, Baptism, Receiving the gift of the Holy Ghost, and enduring to the end. It's essential to everything we do!

Aside from the really cool insights, there were some worldwide changes for our daily schedule as missionaries. It will be fun to see how those go! We have more time on pdays now so that will be exciting!

We really helped strengthen our recent converts this week which has been great!

The big highlight of the week....B WAS BAPTIZED YESTERDAY!!

So yesterday was crazy. Let me just give you a play by play....

Wake up, get ready like normal, go to church early to print programs and fill the font and some other things before sacrament meeting. (Sister R was asked to give a talk a day in advance because someone was sick but she killed it--it was a proud companion moment. ;') )

Then after sacrament meeting we talk with a few members and come to find out no one brought refreshments for the baptism right after church!! So what do we do? We drive home and make two batches of brownies and three dozen cake cookies (good thing those are quick and easy)

then come back to the church and bake another thing of brownies (we didn't have room in our oven to bake it all at the same time) and another two dozen cake cookies! Then we were running around because the member who was supposed to play the piano had an emergency so we had to have another member do it and we were finding the baptism clothes and letting B know that he needed to get changed and just so many things. We ended up starting a little late because B was changing but then it all worked out and the baptism went well! Everyone loved the refreshments and we didn't have any leftover! Even though it was craziness beforehand, the Spirit was definitely there and it was so amazing to see him enter the waters of baptism after two years of investigating the church. We are so happy for him. :)

Love you all!

Sister Horne

We exchanged companions and Sister Tesch and I took off for for a busy fun day together.