First week in Wyoming!

Yes, I am in Wyoming now, but Wyoming Michigan that is. My companion is Elder Caldwell and he is from Mapleton, Utah.  Not too much exciting has happened here. I got to know our bishop last night and he is super cool.  The ward seems really supportive here.  

On Wednesday I got picked up to come over here to Wyoming.  It was a lot of driving because we drove from Lansing to Kalamazoo and then we drove up to Wyoming. We spent a good 3 hours in the car that day.

A miracle we saw this week was that we were messaging people on Facebook in the Wyoming area and we messaged a guy by the name of Sam and he actually responded.  He even watched the live stream on Facebook. It was a small thing to be excited about, but it really cheered us up!

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-Elder Caldwell and me

Transfers!

I am getting transferred to Grand Rapids to be a zone leader there.  It will be good but I was hoping to finish as a regular grunt work missionary, but this will be good as well.

This week we got a referral from church headquarters and at first he was acting all interested.  We had an amazing lesson where he was telling us all about how he wants to change his life and the spirit was super strong so we decided on the next visit that we were going to try putting him on date.  During that second visit we went to put him on date and as we were about to, he stopped us and said I know what you're about to ask and the answer is no.  I was baptized in Grand Rapids as a teenager.  I never thought I would try to put someone on date who is a member!

This week we had a lesson with a guy by the name of Ryan and he is on baptismal date for July 8th.  The sister missionaries were originally teaching him, but since they are leaving Lansing they are leaving him to us.  It was a powerful lesson we were able to help him recognize the spirit and supposedly it was the first time he gave an affirmative answer that he would get baptized!

Erin Got Baptized

For Erin's baptism a member made some white masks for us.  We zoomed in the ward over one of the sister's phones. We then changed and confirmed her at the water's edge.  Elder Davis did a fantastic job!  It was nice not having all the people around and to just feel the calm peaceful spirit!  Erin was so happy and she is excited to be a lifelong member!  It was amazing getting to watch Erin's countenance change. It is the best part of helping people into the waters of baptism! 

On Sunday night we got an amazing devotional from a BYU professor on the Pearl of Great Price.  He gave all kinds of interesting facts and what not about the history of the Pearl of Great Price.  Although the greatest part of all the facts was when he explained how revelation from God is always right, but academic knowledge can be wrong!  It was amazing!

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Late night pictures because I was bored
My botched haircut

Erin is getting baptized this week!

Well the title says it all!  Although she may be in a different area than what we are over we are still going to be able to participate in her baptism!  She asked Elder Davis to confirm her and I get to baptize her! 

We got an amazing referral from our ward mission leader this week by the name of Lindsey!  We were able to have an amazing lesson with her about the current events that are going on in the world and how gooGod loves all his children!  The spirit was super strong and she was super excited to learn more!

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-Out for a walk and a bad hair day

Isolation nation!

This week we had a couple of amazing miracles!  On Wednesday we had a lesson with our friend Justin and he was wanting his son to learn about going on a mission.  We were able to have a super spirit-led lesson and he and his dad said they wanted to learn more.  It was an amazing lesson.  We were able to schedule a follow-up appointment for the upcoming week!

We also got a referral from our ward mission leader!  He referred an entire family to us!  We are so excited to start teaching them it is going to be amazing! 

Fun story!  We got approved to get hair cuts this week so messaged our mission presidents wife and asked for one.  She said yes so we headed over there and she started cutting my hair and she got nervous and handed my companions the clippers.  About halfway through Sister Brennan starts laughing and Elder Davis cut a big hole in the back of my hair.  Good thing they don't see the back of my head in Zoom calls! 

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-At the mission home post hair cuts!

Weeks of Isolation

This week we found out that Erin, the lady we had on date for baptism, doesn't live in our area.  We were so bummed because she was literally the only person we were teaching.  Everyone else dropped off the face of the planet.  Although we are hoping that because we were honest and passed her off that the Lord will bless us!

On Wednesday we had 3 hours of district councils.  The reason is we are the zone leaders and the district leaders so we have to join a district council and teach a district council.  The crazy part is the district we were joining, their district leader was sick so we ended up having to teach both of them.  Long story short after that we were pretty worn out looking at our cell phone screens! 

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-I wanted to see how long my hair was getting.