Exchanges and a great Fireside

Hello everybody!

It is a rainy day today! Woke up this morning at 6 and there were flashes of lightning every 10 seconds! It was nuts. It just wouldnt stop and it was pouring super super hard. The rain storms here are crazy and awesome! It supposed to rain for like the next 4 days haha. I happy about it. Its been so hot and humid this past week.

Today we are planning on driving over to Louisville to go tour church hill downs! Its gonna be sweet! And then we are going to go to the science museum across from the slugger museum. We are also going to be picking up our new phone at the mission office because our phone randomly just died and wont turn back on anymore. So we have been without a cell phone for the past 3 days haha its sucks. Missionary work is super hard without a phone. You can stay in contact with investigators or members. So we have been doing a lot of driving the past 2 days so we could keep in touch with investigators. 

Last night we attended the mission home fireside, in Louisville, that they have on the last sunday of every month. It was awesome. Its just for missionaries to bring an investigator to and they have someone give a talk and then they do a testimony meeting and a lot of investigators got up and bore their testimony. We brought Michele to it. She got up and gave an awesome testimony and invited everyone to her baptism on the 10th of next month. She said that she knows that everything we have taught her is true and she is so glad that she has found this church. So the fireside was awesome and I'm super glad we got to go. Oh and side note, driving through Louisville is nuts. The roads are crazy. And it was night time when we were driving and it was raining. But the city is super cool to see at night.

Emma is doing great also. She is being Baptized the day before Michele, so on the 9th. And they will both be confirmed on the 11th, which is mothers day!! What a great weekend to get 2 Baptisms! Emma is already planning on going to girls camp and she has a ton of friends in the ward already. When you have awesome fellowship for investigators they progress so quickly. Its been great with both of them. Our ward is awesome. 

Earlier this week I was on an exchange with Elder Evans, my district leader, and it was super great. He was my zone leader in Evansville and now hes my district leader. It was a super fun day working with him. Learned a lot and a ton of crazy and awesome things happened. Exchanges are always eventful. We had one of our investigators get mad at us during a lesson because he was saying that he already had the gift of the holy ghost, but we were trying to explain that you recieve it through the laying on of hands. Well he wouldn't buy that so he just kicked us out haha it was a super intense lesson.

Elder Jensen and I are getting along great. He is super funny and is an Obedient missionary. He has no problem taking counsel and we just get along great. I like training a lot! 

So, this week has been great and I'm loving my mission! I have really noticed how much the Lord answers prayers. When I first got here we basically had no one to teach, and we were praying for at least one person that we could consistently meet with and teach. Well we were blessed with two GOLDEN investigators. The blessings that are happening here are amazing and I am so grateful.

I love you all! 

Elder Eastin