How's it going? Man, what a
great week over in Ames. It seems like Utah and Iowa are going through similar
changes in the season. The trees in Ames are all huge so it so pretty when all
of the leaves change colors. That also implies that there are a lot of leaves
falling on the ground too. We help a lot of people rake leaves. Gotta love
being a missionary. Unfortunately, Iowa also goes through similar weather
changes as Utah. One part of the day will be overcast and rainy and then by the
end of the day it's around 80 degrees. It makes it tough to plan for the
weather. Good stuff.
I will jump right into this
week. Oh man it was a good one. I'm sure you are all dying to hear about our
baptism on Saturday. I will do my best to do the baptism justice. We woke up
and had our regular morning routine. The baptism wasn't until noon so we had a
while to study and exercise and such. We were doing some companionship studies
when Diane called us and told us that she was lost trying to find the church.
Yep it was only like 10 at this point. Diane arrived to her baptism two hours
early. She was stoked. We quickly got ready and went to meet her. We gave her
some baptismal clothing and some herbal tea. Side story: we went over to her
apartment last week to visit and came in to her heating up a pot of tea. We
told her that unfortunately tea was against the Word of Wisdom. When she realized that she was doing
something wrong, she handed us the whole container of tea and told us to throw
it away for her. She has so much faith, it is fantastic. We rewarded her
obedience with some herbal tea to replace the green and sweet tea she was
making.
Back to the baptism, the
service was going great and then it came time to do the baptism. We walked to
the font and she told me that it was the best day of her life. She is honestly
such a cute lady. When we got to the font I looked down into the water and it
looked a little shallow but didn't think too much of it. I was asked to baptize
her so I walked into the font and discovered that the water only reached to
about my knee... OH MAN. There wasn't much we could do at this point as the
people in attendance filed into the room. So I just decided to go for it
anyway. Diane came into the font with me and I said the prayer and proceeded to
dunk her. Because the water was so shallow I basically had to take all of her
body weight into my arms and lower her down horizontally. I'm sure it was quite
the sight to see. When I tried to bring her back up I instinctively let out an
"Oh boy" as I struggled to bring her back up. Diane was no help. She
didn't think anything was wrong. Unfortunately I wasn't able to get her
completely immersed the first try so I repeated the baptism. We got it right
that time. Haha although it was kind of a mess, she was still baptized and she
stilled received the first half of a saving ordinance so it all works out. I
will have to explain it better when we face time on Christmas. The baptism as a
whole was fantastic.
Times like Saturday make
all of the hard work worth it. All of the slammed doors and angry people are
forgotten and we can reap the blessings of our hard work. The Lord is blessing
us a lot. Elder Dunford and I might give Alma and Amulek a run for their
money. Seeing the way the gospel can change someone is a sight to see. It
is definitely a testament to me of the truthfulness of the message we share.
The rest of the week pales
in comparison to the baptism so I won't bore you guys with those stories.
Basically we found a couple new investigators and have been teaching a lot of
lessons! Things are looking up here in Ames. Trevor one of our investigators is
a Filipino woman. She is awesome and she will for sure be getting baptized here
in the next couple months. So stay tuned.
We did get back into our
apartment and we have fresh new carpet. The place looks real nice. It is nice
to have some space again and some quiet during studies.
I love you guys so much and
I hope you all have a wonderful week.
I guess I'll be Amulek,
Elder Obray
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