July 27, 2009

Kris got baptized!!!  It was way sweet.  We had a great turnout to her baptism too.  There were 40 people or more.  Kris was way nervous before the baptism.  She was afraid of the water and getting drowned.  She was way happy after and couldn't stop smiling.  The spirit was so strong there.  Jerome, Kris's husband, kept telling people that he was going to get baptized in 2 weeks.  I think it was just the thing he needed to push him along.  Kris and Jerome were found knocking too.  That's my first knocking baptism.  I love it!  To think if we weren't being obedient to President Cutler's council and knocked at least an hour every day, we wouldn't have found them.  I love that family so much.  

Francis also got baptized.  He is from Ghana. Francis knew the church in Ghana and loved it, but he was never baptized.  Once he came to Texas, he called up church headquarters in SLC to find the nearest church.  He doesn't have a car, but his friend Moses goes to our church.  It took Francis 2 and a half months to get to church, but he did it.  We thought he was in mine and Elder Blaylock's area, but he belonged to Elder Froste and Elder Paisley.  So, we taught him the first lesson.  He was so ready that the spirit told me to commit him for the 26th to be baptized.  He accepted.  He should have been baptized in the singles ward, but he wanted to stay in Shoal Creek and Elder Paisley hadn't had a baptism  yet and he is over 6 months out.  So, Elder Paisley got to teach him a little.  Elder Paisley got transferred before the baptism, but President Cutler let him come back to baptize Francis.  Guess who Elder Paisley's new companion is?  ELDER SMITH!!!  So Elder Blaylock and I have had a close relationship in baptizing Francis too.  It felt great.  

Not too much else happened with out week.  We did run into some very Tim Burton-ish people that let us in to teach them because we were glowing.  They actually saw a light around us, but they wouldn't set up an appointment to let us come back.  

What creepy things have I seen?  Just locusts, cockroaches, and lizards.  My first armadillo was pretty cool.  They do have tons of bugs that I have no clue what they are tho.