Wayne was baptized! He's Wayne Jr. so we can say we baptized Lil' Wayne. It was a good baptism too. A lot more support from the ward than we anticipated, and his family and some other non-members came. They all took something away from it. When he changed out of his baptism suit we watched a movie on the great apostasy and after Elder Adamson bore a solid testimony about the restored gospel and invited everyone to ask for a witness of the truth of the Book of Mormon, either again or for the first time. It was a really intense spiritual environment. We're starting to work with one of the non-members who was there. Wayne was confirmed yesterday in sacrament meeting and received the aaronic priesthood and was ordained a priest after church. he's the man. if you remember me talking about the christmas cookies we made for everybody, wayne's one of the guys who came to church the next day and picked up momentum. he's even been talking to some of his family about the church for a little bit now too.
some news that's less exciting is i gave a talk yesterday in sacrament meeting. i was asked to speak on President Monson's general conference address "Stand In Holy Places". really good talk, if you haven't watched it recently i'd recommend it. http://lds.org/general-
we had a busy week and i ended up cranking out the talk sunday morning in personal study. it took me back to high school when i'd write papers the night before they were due, not a good feeling. i promise, i'm not a slacker. and i was a little nervous because president holmes came to our sacrament meeting to see wayne's confirmation. but i felt good about it in the end. but the moral of the story is don't procrastinate. but if you do, don't forget to pray at least.
we found some really cool people this week. we were on exchanges and i was in plymouth with the other missionary, he's actually from irvine and huntington. we knocked on a couple of doors and this one guy told us that he was "already saved by Jesus" and gave us a hug and said thanks anyways. we told him that's great and that's why this message would be so applicable to him, so he told us he's pretty busy doing his own bible study anyways. so we asked him if we could come in and study with him. and he let us in! the past two years he's been reading the bible online and following along with audio off of some website. and he only has a few chapters left in the book of revelation so his scripture project would be coming to a close. but we showed him lds.org and read and listened to a chapter out of the book of mormon. we also watched a general conference talk with him on lds.org and he loved it. he bookmarked all the pages and said we could come back and study with him some more.
elder adamson and i knocked on a different guy's door in the same apartment complex on a different night and he let us in right away. he opened the door and said "elders, come on in". turns out he met with missionaries 20 years ago, he wasn't really interested back then but is really receptive now. he's a guy who's been through some challenges and turned to the bible to overcome them. when we were explaining the restoration and the priesthood to him, he already knew about how it was divided into different groups like the melchizedek and aaronic. didn't know anything about the lds church but just understood things talked about in the bible. some more people we found this week are friends and family of members and it looks like we'll be picking things up with them.
saturday morning we helped out with a primary activity at the church. they did a missionary relay. the kids were in two lines, they had to pretend like they were asleep and then when the alarm went off they had to put on some big dress shoes, put a tie around their neck, run to a door and knock 10 times, open up to a scripture in the book of mormon and then run back and pretend to fall back asleep. it was the really young primary kids too, that was a blast. if only it were that easy.
today we're meeting up with the district to play some volleyball, maybe some basketball at the church. which will be good because this ward feeds us. i'm not complaining about that, but i should get some cardiovascular going on.
that's a long email, alright i gotta go. have a great week. love ya
elder lamb
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