Baptism

November 28, 2011

Hey guys,

Baptism! On Saturday Dave was baptized. He's the man. He had met with the missionaries a few years back but didn't really pick up a lot of progress and they lost contact. He was picked up again and he's been coming to church and progressing since. Recently he told us that he was ready for this but just never really felt good about joining any other church. And he just soaked everything in as we taught him. We'd go over a commandment and ask if he had any concerns and his response would be "well it's a commandment, why would there be any questions about it?" The baptism was great. There was good member support and some of his family made it out who we had never met before. You could tell he was feeling the spirit at both the baptism and his confirmation yesterday in church. He's really solid. It was a neat experience being able to work with him and watch him develop a strong testimony of the restored gospel.

Turkey day was good. Ate lots of turkey. in the morning we played football with the two wards, i'm still sore. a lot of fun though. the websters (the senior missionary couple in the ward) put together a dinner at the church for some of the members who didn't have any thanksgiving plans and we went to that. fun visiting with everyone, and the food was really good. we didn't really have any plans set the rest of the day, but we stopped by some people who we thought might not have any thanksgiving plans and shared a short message with them on gratitude. so overall the day went really well. hopefully you guys enjoyed the day too, was the dinner at beth and charles' again?

last night we went to a fireside with bill. paul schultee (i think that was his name) was the speaker. he's a member of the church who grew up in michigan. he's a gold medalist and mvp for the american team wheelchair basketball. that guy was sweet. we saw some clips of his games and he has skill. he spoke about facing trials and obstacles with a die-hard attitude of faith. really powerful message. the firesides in the mission have been focused on the "i'm a mormon" campaign on the mormon.org so they showed one of the videos at the beginning. it was sister hess' video about their son who passed recently, i didn't know there was a video. but it really brought the spirit into the fireside at the beginning and i know that everyone appreciated the testimony of sister hess and her family. here's the link if anyone wants to see http://mormon.org/jenny/

i can't think of much else to say today. choose the right, if we're not happy we should start looking for more ways to be obedient. and if we are happy, we should start looking for more ways to be obedient. i know that that's the only way to really live.

love you guys, have a great week.

elder lamb