This week was way packed with stuff, and pretty busy, so I'll try to go
over as much of the stuff as possible. So the coolest part about this
week was that we got to the temple with one of the recent converts in
this ward. We have been spending a lot of time planning out this trip
and helping the recent converts here with family history so they would
be able to go and do family names, and then early last week, once we had
everything planned, we called President Blatter to get permission to
go, and he said that we couldn't because Donald was baptized before the
specific rule change that let us go to the temple to do baptisms for the
dead. But then our awesome ward mission leader wanted us to come
really badly, so he got our mission president's email address and wrote a
long email about all the reasons that we should go, and President
Blatter changed his mind on us and let us come along. So we took the
ferry from Bremerton to Seattle on Friday and drove from there to the
temple. That was way cool because we got to be on the water, and when
we go to the temple with the mission, we actually never get to drive
through Seattle, because the temple is actually out in Bellevue. So I
got to drive through Seattle for the first time too. The temple was
really great. Donald is pretty old and not that stable, so he didn't
actually get baptized for any of his family names, but he got to be a
part of the confirmations, which was cool for him. His wife was one of
the family names that he had done, and so it was a really special trip
for him. Afterwards, we got to have dinner in the cafeteria in the
temple, which I had never been to before either. So it was a really fun
trip. We drove back through Tacoma on the way home, which wasn't super
exciting, except that I got to see a few of my old areas again.
The
other great part about this last week was conference. This was the
last conference of my mission, which is kinda crazy. We told our
investigator to pray about modern prophets and then watch conference,
and she said that she loved it, and believes in prophets now, and had a
really good experience with that, which is exciting for us. And it was
way fun to hear a bunch of talks in other languages. Anyway, I 'm all
out of time now, but I hope you all have a great week! Oh, and
transfers are this next week, so I'll tell you if I'm moving!
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