Hermana Kelsey 16:2 -email-

This week has been good. We had a baptism yesterday!!!! WOOOO!! It went really well.  We had the usual drama/problems right before the service, but other than that things went really smoothly. He was so ready. He will probably be a missionary in a year or so. 🙂 But first we have to teach him a little bit more. He is so awesome though. He is a solid kid. 🙂

So I only have a part of a week to report since I wrote to you part of the way into last week, but here are some things that have happened since we last wrote.

Tuesday: We were almost out of miles for the month, so we spent almost all day Tuesday walking and talking to people. We didn’t talk to very many hispanic people, but we did to talk to a really nice older lady that was telling us about her trip to Jerusalem. I really want to take a trip there some day. She went there back in like the 60’s or something, so it was a long time ago, but I still think it would be cool to go and see the places where Jesus Christ walked when he was here on the earth. 🙂

Wednesday: We had an appointment with G. and J., but they weren’t home when we went by. We are so so sad, but we are still going to keep trying with them, and see where we can go.

Thursday: There was a baptism of a lady that Sister M. and Sister P. and W. contacted when they were all here together. She is english so they didn’t get to teach her, but they were the first ones to talk to her about the church, and then she got baptized! We were planning on going with M. so he could see how a baptism was, but then he couldn’t make it, and we were also stuck at our dinner for too long, so we didn’t end up getting to go to the baptism. But we called her and told her we were so excited for her, and congratulations and all that, and she was happy that we called her.

Saturday: We had M.’s baptism. Also, after that we taught A., J.’s dad, and P., her mom. We are supposed to be teaching them again tonight, and finish the lesson we started with them, but we’ll see what happens. Before, A. was the only person in their family we hadn’t taught. He was also telling them things about the church and kind of trying to turn them off to the things we were teaching, saying that they weren’t in the Bible, etc. So now we are hoping that since we are teaching him he can see exactly what it is that we do believe, and he’ll bring the whole family with him.

Sunday: We had M.’s confirmation. They were super late to church, but Bishop M., who is way awesome, held off the annoucements and business long enough that they still did it at the very end of those. 🙂 It was a little bit of a weird day for me, because in sacrament meeting it was fast and testimony meeting, of course, and a returned missionary got up and bore his testimony. There is a girl (V.) in our ward, that just got back from her mission this last Wednesday. The guy, A., got up and talked about how when returned missionaries see other missionaries just barely coming home, it makes them trunky, but trunky for the mission, not for home. I feel like I’m going to be like that when I get home. I’m not trunky to come home now, but I feel like when I am home, I’m going to miss it a lot, and when I see other missionaries it will make me think of my mission. Also, we went out on exchange with a girl who is actually the sister of the V., and she just got back from her mission about 5 months ago, and she was telling us about how weird you feel coming home and doing real things again. I am just calling it now, I think I’m going to be super awkward when I get home. At least for a little bit. But hopefully I can adjust back fairly easily.

Mom: Hah. Okay,Mom, I will pray for your sanity. That is something that you probably need for at least a little while longer 🙂

Oh my gosh! I am so proud of Colin! Tell him congrats for me, and tell him that I say being a missionary is the best thing ever! I wouldn’t take back the decision I made to serve the Lord in trade for anything. I am so thankful I have the gospel in my life, and I am thankful for the opportunity I have to share the happiness that I feel with other people every single day as a servant of the Lord.

So I don’t mean to be a bother or anything, but I am having a severe drought of letters. No one is writing to me! I think part of it may be that since I am on the downhill people just figure that they will talk to me when I get back…but I still would appreciate some letters. If there is any possibly you could help make that happen that would be awesome! 🙂 Thanks!! ANYTHING will do! 🙂

Dad: I’m glad you are still just plugging along. Like I always say, or better, like I now say, “Life is always better when you are busy.” I can’t seem to hold still for very long now, because I feel like I am wasting the Lord’s time. It’s not my time anymore, it’s the Lord’s, so I feel horrible about moments that slip by without me doing anything. Maybe that will change when I’m back home. I hope not though. 🙂

When you say your truck expired, are you talking about the registration, or that it died? I hope it didn’t die, but that stinks if it did. Well either way it stinks I guess, because you still can’t use it.

Emmy: WOW! I’m glad you liked the singles ward. I didn’t like it at first, but that’s because I didn’t get involved with any of the activities or anything, so my advice would be to get involved and you’ll enjoy it more.

Well, I gotta go now. I love you all so much! Have fun!

Love, Kelsey

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