Yup transfers happened today and Elder McLaughlin is leaving to go finish training another Elder who just came out 6 weeks ago. He'll do great out there, I'm getting Elder Johnson (he came out into the mission when I was in my 4th transfer in Ontario) and he's from North Carolina! I've served around him quite a bit so this'll be fun! I think PDay will still be the same. We can email from our phones and not everything is closed so it'll be fine, what holiday is coming up? I don't know anything so far as of right now concerning my mission reassignment. It'll probably be talked about later in the future, still up in the air but I believe President Taylor has been talking with the neighboring missions concerning what'll happen.
Mary did pass her baptismal interview though this past Wednesday! She's super excited for her baptism coming up really soon. We started making her baptismal program for her and inviting everyone we know to come and attend. Concerning the rain, its sprinkled a little bit over here but it actually starting raining today and it might rain on some other days during the week. I'll make sure to get pictures for you! Especially with Mary's baptism as well, I'll definitely make sure to get some there.
Fun to hear about everything that's going on over there. Savannah is always having crazy amounts of dance. Make sure to get plenty of sleep, if you need help prayer can always help. That's fun to hear about Grant's interview, it'll be fun for him to hang out more with the deacons and those activities. Imma email Bryson and hopefully he'll email me back. I got a couple of videos maybe he'll laugh at, brighten up his day.
We actually had a ton of cool miracles happen this week. Mary passed her baptismal interview and we'll be teaching her tomorrow and another day during the week to make sure she is all prepared for her baptism. Along with that, we invited Darla, we've taught a couple times to a baptism for some other Elders and she enjoyed it a ton. She later texted us asking what the steps of baptism were and she wanted to commit to be baptized! We talked with her again the next day, she took us out for tacos, and we set a baptismal date of February 9th for her. Then to top it off we had 3 people we've been teaching come to church this week! Mary came, and Darla (it was her first time, and a recent convert namer Daniel brought his nephew named Myles who we've been teaching every now and then. Darla was nervous but some members came up and invited her to Relief Society and she got to make some new friends. I've learned it makes a HUGE impact when you get to know someone, I've been trying to do that and I feel almost closer to the ward than before.
There was a random act of service I remembered that happened. I got a second jacket (it was a nice one) for free from an Elder going home. So I had 2 jackets and when we were getting ready to leave after dinner, this guy started to walk up to us and asked if we could give him some money for a bus to drive back to Bakersfield, we said No but then he asked if we could give him something that would keep him warm. And I remembered I had that extra jacket so we walked to our apartment, grabbed it, and let him take it. He was super thankful and I hope he finds his way back home. It was a fun little moment to serve someone, even if I won't see him again.
Things are going really well. I'll keep you updated with everything that happens out here. And I'll make sure to take pictures. LOVE YA MOMMA!! Have fun and tell the kiddos I love em! Get plenty of sleep!!
- Elder Brimhall
Mary did pass her baptismal interview though this past Wednesday! She's super excited for her baptism coming up really soon. We started making her baptismal program for her and inviting everyone we know to come and attend. Concerning the rain, its sprinkled a little bit over here but it actually starting raining today and it might rain on some other days during the week. I'll make sure to get pictures for you! Especially with Mary's baptism as well, I'll definitely make sure to get some there.
Fun to hear about everything that's going on over there. Savannah is always having crazy amounts of dance. Make sure to get plenty of sleep, if you need help prayer can always help. That's fun to hear about Grant's interview, it'll be fun for him to hang out more with the deacons and those activities. Imma email Bryson and hopefully he'll email me back. I got a couple of videos maybe he'll laugh at, brighten up his day.
We actually had a ton of cool miracles happen this week. Mary passed her baptismal interview and we'll be teaching her tomorrow and another day during the week to make sure she is all prepared for her baptism. Along with that, we invited Darla, we've taught a couple times to a baptism for some other Elders and she enjoyed it a ton. She later texted us asking what the steps of baptism were and she wanted to commit to be baptized! We talked with her again the next day, she took us out for tacos, and we set a baptismal date of February 9th for her. Then to top it off we had 3 people we've been teaching come to church this week! Mary came, and Darla (it was her first time, and a recent convert namer Daniel brought his nephew named Myles who we've been teaching every now and then. Darla was nervous but some members came up and invited her to Relief Society and she got to make some new friends. I've learned it makes a HUGE impact when you get to know someone, I've been trying to do that and I feel almost closer to the ward than before.
There was a random act of service I remembered that happened. I got a second jacket (it was a nice one) for free from an Elder going home. So I had 2 jackets and when we were getting ready to leave after dinner, this guy started to walk up to us and asked if we could give him some money for a bus to drive back to Bakersfield, we said No but then he asked if we could give him something that would keep him warm. And I remembered I had that extra jacket so we walked to our apartment, grabbed it, and let him take it. He was super thankful and I hope he finds his way back home. It was a fun little moment to serve someone, even if I won't see him again.
Things are going really well. I'll keep you updated with everything that happens out here. And I'll make sure to take pictures. LOVE YA MOMMA!! Have fun and tell the kiddos I love em! Get plenty of sleep!!
- Elder Brimhall
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