What a GREAT week!!!!!!! What a GREAT mission!!! Love it so much. Yesterday was probably one of the best days of my whole mission. Definitely the best sunday I've EVER had!
Lets start with Romain's baptism. It was solid and he is such a good guy. He's made a lot of changes and has come a long way. When I first got here he was not progressing at all and we just went over to his house if we didn't have anything to do and we would read some scriptures with him and thats basically it. He wouldn't come to church or anything. BUT after picking him back up he really started progressing and BOOM now hes a member! He asked to share his testimony after his baptism and it was a great one. He gave up friends and moved out of his old apartment just to get away from the negativity they were giving him about the church. And then the next day at church our branch President interviewed him for the priesthood before church, we confirmed him in sacrament, he was sustained for the preisthood and then was ordained in Elders quorum. And then to add on to all of that greatness, Alvin was at the branch this sunday and he was also interviewed for the priesthood and I got to ordain him to the Aaronic Priesthood AND Romain got to stand in on the Ordination because he had just been ordained. It was awesome. So much priesthood work done in just a few hours!
Then after church at 4:30, Layne, Us and our branch mission Leader left to go to the fireside in Louisville and Justice Smith (our recent convert) rode up with another member. But the point of us leaving so early was so we could go to the TEMPLE! :D And it was fantastic to see it. Just being on the outside of the temple you can feel the peace of the spirit.
Layne and Justice loved it also. They are so excited to go to it! And then at 7 we went to the fireside. I'll admit, there were a bunch of 'Life story" types of testimonies haha but it was good that those people got up and they tried their best to share their testimonies. Towards the end Layne got up and shared her testimony! And it was soooooooooooo good. So powerful and she testified of the importance of everyone opening their mouths to share the gospel, because if her friend Thomas wouldnt have she wouldnt have known about the church. It was inspiring.
We need more people to teach and baptize haha we have a few pretty solid referrals we are gonna start working with so that will hopefully turn out good!
Every other week we have branch council before church and so this week we had it. With our branch President (President Sproul) the conversation can go anywhere and i mean anywhere. haha but at one point he asked me how much longer I have on my mission (and i hate telling people that because it makes me realize how short of time i have left) but my companion told him i have 7 weeks left, and President Sproul just stopped and started to cry. I have never had a leader of a church express so much love and appreciation like he did than in any other area I've had. And i dont mean to boast or brag at all with this story, because I really dont feel like that great of a missionary, but he just....doesn't want me to leave. It was so emotional. So glad i get to finish here.
Much love from KENTUCKY!!!!
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