Snow!!

Hello everyone!!  It has been a busy week!

Okay, unlike a couple weeks ago, last Monday I made sure I was fully dressed before we had our lessons! I felt the need to report on that. 

We had zone conference and interviews this Tuesday and Wednesday. It was so inspiring and helpful! We learned a lot about how to work with members better and get them more involved in the work.  

We got a new friend named Glenn! He is getting passed off to us from other missionaries and he got put on date to be baptized in that lesson!! We are so excited for him!!  He is so sweet and has a sincere desire to follow Jesus Christ.  

We also met with Garrett again!! We LOVE Garrett! He got the Book of Mormon we sent him and loves it! He wants us to tab his work stuff :) He wanted to come to church with us yesterday which was so exciting because we have been able to have church in person for the last while! But then Saturday we got told to go grocery shopping because there was a winter storm coming and our cars were grounded Sunday and Monday.  However, our building is like a mile away so we were going to walk to church so we could meet him in person and show him around but then church got moved to only online.  Can I tell you how disappointed we were??!?  But Garrett was fine joining online and he even dressed up for it!!!!  He totally looked like a member!!!  He even stayed for Sunday School and LIKED it!!  However, because he looks like a member he got called on to read and we freaked out because we had been so busy we forgot to tell people he wasn't a member.  But he was fine with it and liked being able to participate.  Ugh he's amazing!!!

We didn't go to Arlington this week because the weather was cold and below 45 degrees. Sad day.

Thursday we got another sweet girl passed off to us, Tayler, she is extremely shy but she really wants to know more about the Book of Mormon so we are excited to start teaching her!

Okay so Sister Lungren showed me a cool trick.  When you stick a little chip bag in the microwave (empty) and microwave it for 5 seconds, it looks like lightning and is SO COOL! Don't worry, we only did it twice because it occurred to us that it might not be to safe to do that. 

Yesterday was insanely busy!!  We had 5 hours of meetings and it was exhausting!  But it snowed!!!!!!!! We were so excited and as soon as we were done with our meetings we ran outside for our break to play in the snow.  We had a fun time building a snowman which didn't last very long, it toppled, and we had a snowball fight. 

We also had another lesson with Garrett last night about baptism and the priesthood.  We read 3 Nephi 11:22-26 and explained that Christ had given us three instructions when getting baptized: It has to be by someone holding the priesthood, there is certain phrasing for it, and it has to be by immersion.  We asked him if any of that was familiar to him.  He said the only thing that stood out was baptism by immersion because he was baptized by immersion.  He asked why it was important to have the priesthood so we took him to Matthew 16:19 and explained that when baptism isn't done by proper priesthood authority, it only lasts for this life.  He really wants to make sure that his baptism is valid and was done correctly now which is incredible because there are so many blessing from baptism and the priesthood! We are going to teach him about the Holy Ghost next time!

It was a fun week and I look forward to next week! I love you all!!