Our wonderful investigator was baptized and confirmed this week! Ah, what a wonderful world. I stood by the baptismal font holding her towel with teared filled eyes. It was an amazing opportunity to be able to speak at her baptism with Sister Bromley. And then watching her be confirmed a member of the church, she was glowing. I felt like such a nerd being like "Your glowing!" Trust me on this one you can tell when someone has the spirit.

The night before her baptism we took her some dinner and ate outside our clubhouse.

So in other news, last week we were knocking doors and we found "D". I love "D". He lives with his partner now. His husband's name in A. They made us a thanksgiving dinner last night. "D" used to be a very active member of the church, he came for the first time yesterday in years! He said he has just been feeling prompted to go back to church and the day we knocked on his door he was like "yup it's a sign" haha Also we found another lady this week. She came to church as well. When we knocked on her door she said. "Oh my dads a bishop in your church!" And then she invited us back and offered to feed us. She said next week she is going to try and bring her husband as well. She's the nicest lady with the purest southern accent. She leans over to me at church and goes "I had my mom send me a bunch of recipes to feed y'all" I guess she grew up half in the Mormon church and half in the baptist church. And lately she attends a Catholic Church with her husband. We set "C" on date for baptism for April 8th! We have a hard time seeing her because she works nights at McDonald's and takes care of her girls in the day. The cutest girls you'll ever see. Ages 5,4,3 yup.
I love my people okay! I LOVE THEM! This week was really much needed for me. I know I still have so much to improve on, but I think I can admit that I was holding myself back from loving the people like I should. Because when I love people it kind of takes over my whole heart so it hurts to leave them, it hurts to see people in the situations I've seen them i, it hurts when you do love people so much and they disappoint you, or you see them make decisions that you know won't make them happy. But if I don't let myself love them then I can't feel what God wants me to feel. I can't show to others what he wants me to show. And I love Heavenly Father, if I love him I will show his children I love them. It's an amazing thing to just look at people on the street and think of how much our father loves them. And sometimes I'm like "well what am I doing then?" Most people I've talked to already know that. But do they?! He has offered us more. So so much more. More love, more knowledge. And that's what we have to offer! It is not only more love but essential love! The restored gospel is essential.

And also we had Zone conference this week with four of the other zones. Sister McCullough and I had to do a role play in front of everyone. Also, our stake president came and spoke and called out the "Lake Crescent Sisters"(that was us) in his talk and thanked us for hammering down on the Ward to be reverent hahaha. On the way home from Zone conference I took a wrong turn and got lost in the Disney parks for about 30 minutes. It probably wasn't the happiest place on earth for me at that moment haha.

"It's a great day to save spiritual lives." Thanks Mcdreamy.

I love being a missionary. It makes me want to be better and work harder Every. Single. Day....at something that matters. :)

I'm like the paper girl of the Book of Mormon... right?!

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