Letter #18

This last week in Washington has been hot.  And by hot, I mean 85-90, which doesn't sound so bad, except that it is soooo humid here, and no one has AC.  Or fans for the most part.  So the only way to get away from the hot is in the car.  People say that it's only this way for about a couple weeks out of the year, so hopefully we don't have to deal with it for too much longer.  I don't really mind the heat that much, but I am definitely used to the dry heat.

We had 2 baptisms yesterday.  We were planning on baptizing Chandea this last weekend, but things kinda worked out that we got to baptize Matthias too.  Chandea is 8 and Matthias is 9, and it's funny that they got baptized on the same day, because Chandea's mom (Sonja), and Matthias' dad (Brian) got baptized in the same service about 3 months ago now.  President Weaver made a surprise visit to our baptism, and so that was exciting.  Elder Burt performed the baptisms, and I taught the Restoration while they were drying off and getting dressed, and then we had awesome talks from Sister Peterson and Brother Short (Derek), and it was a really good service.  Afterward President Weaver did a photo shoot with the ward.  He's such a celebrity around here.  The best part about the baptism is that we had someone show up who wants to investigate the church.  His name is Nick, and he is Chandea's older brother's friend.  So mabes I'll talk about him more later if anything happens there.

Transfers are coming up this next week.  We get transfer calls this next Saturday, and then transfer meeting is a week from Tuesday.  Pretty exciting. I'm probably going to get moved, since I've been here for 3 transfers now.  So that's pretty sad.  But we'll just have to see.

My companion's sister just got married, and her new husband is from Tacoma, so Elder Burt's whole family was just in the city a couple of days ago, and he didn't get to see any of them.  Which was a little sad, but his sisters new in-laws came by and gave us some wedding leftovers, so that was pretty great.  They both work right in our area, so we might be going to lunch with them sometime during this next week.  So that's fun.

Anyway, that's about it in Tacoma right now.  It's a pretty fun place to be.