So they put me in the country. My area is so big. If you start at one end and drive to the other, it takes 1 1/2 hours going 70 mph. You guessed it... I'm in a car area. It's about as red neck as you can get out here too. Thick Texas accents.
More about baptism Bill. We met Bill the Wednesday before transfers. Keep in mind this whole time I didn't know I was gonna be transfered. Elder Moore and I were praying really hard to find someone this week to come to church. If someone came to church this Sunday then they could be baptized by the 31st. We were supposed to go on pair-ups that night- meaning that a high priest was going to drive us to all our appointments. When we do this with them we are supposed to try and schedule appointments to teach at the time they are supposed to go on pair-ups. This way the high priests don't get bored and they will tell all the other high priests what a great time they had. The only problem is... zero investigators. All the appointments we made had cancelled too. What were we to do? Well, I'll tell ya... we had a list of about 50 less active members that the bishop gave us to go see. This isn't the funnest activity for a high priest but it's all we had. Elder Moore picked the name Scott. While we were teaching Scott, someone pulled up and waved to the high priest who was with us. He said it was his friend Bill and that we should go visit him. So we all went over for a visit. Lets put together all the things that made this possible by the Lord: There was only one thing holding Bill back from being baptized and that was his wife. Funny enough he had just barely seperated from her. Bill is the very definition of "elect" (D&C 29) . Before we could tell him about the need for a prophet in this day he said "I don't see how anyone could say that there is no need for a prophet!" WOW! We told him he had to give up coffee and he paused for about 3 seconds then said "Okay, if it's what needs to be done I'll do it!". We committed him to baptism for the 31st and he said "Of course!". We warned him about transfer calls that night but told him not to worry cause no one gets transferred after only 2 transfers. Urrrrrrn!! Wrong! LOL. You know the rest. I got transferred to Seguin and no Bill baptism for me. But guess what?! We are baptizing two people on my birthday, Alfredo and his wife. The next week after that will be three more! Rudy and his wife-to-be, Isabelle, and Alex. They'll be baptized on the 7th of September. That will be 5 in two weeks James!! Oh the Tender Mercies of the Lord. We have to teach the law of chastity to Rudy and Isabelle. That will be my first time. Fun, eh?
Right now the mission has 102 baptisms committed for August. This might be the month we finally get our goal of 100! I'm so excited! It sucked saying goodbye to UC ward. I'll miss them. Bro. Tiemann took me and Elder Moore on a little tour of Randolf air fore base. It's such a cool base. It was sad going to church on Sunday and not having my UC family. I don't know how to explain. I'm way excited for my new Seguin family, but it made me slightly trunky for UC. LOL.
The story of Charlie the wet squirrel: Elder Moore and I were doing our weekly planning. It was raining like crazy, which caused a lake to form outside our sliding door. I looked over and saw something fall from the sky. Well, it was Charlie skydiving into the lake. Sadly Charlie wasn't feeling so hot after this. So we took him inside and cared for him. He was shaking so we dried him off and wrapped him in a warm towel. In a while he was better, after he took a nap, and then we let him go. There's Charlie's story! :)
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