February 2, 2009

Well, we just had the sweetest weekend ever... I am not sure if I told you about Elijah... he is this really tall, black guy that asked for us to come over and teach him. Anyways he got baptized yesterday. When I was dunking him I thought he was going to be heavy so I put all my weight under him and almost threw him out of the font... he only weighs 170lbs! That is ridiculous! He is like half a foot taller than me and I weigh a lot more.... and I wish I could say its all muscle!
We were tracting on Friday and the last house we went to we met this girl named Marvinna... and there were a bunch of little kids running around and she told us that she was baby sitting for her sister in law. Anyways we taught her and she was really excited and wanted to come to church. I would have committed her to baptism if the kids weren't so chaotic but the Spirit wasn't as strong as it could be. But then she said that she works on Sunday and she told us to call her in a couple weeks to set up an appointment... so i figured darn we're never going to see her again... so we went on with our day... anyways we get home and we have a message from her that said she was talking to her nieces and nephews and they are all members from West Palm... it was so sweet. and she wanted to move our appointment up! We set a time to meet her on Thursday. It will be so sweet... she was tight.
And then on the same street we found a guy named Roger that I had to literally chase down in his truck as he was driving away... Hill couldn't keep up.. haha... but anyways he has a Book of Mormon and the missionary's used to visit him like 15 years ago and he just happened to start reading the Book of Mormon a couple of weeks ago! We are going to meet with him on Wednesday hopefully, and get him baptized in the next couple weeks...
So, Michael, the one who is on parole and needs a job to get off parole... still doesn't have one, but he comes to church every week... he has stopped smoking, drinking, and doing drugs and he wants to be baptized so bad we are just waiting for him to get a job... so keep Michael Burnum in your prayers...
And we have been working with an excommunicated member's fiance for a long time, and she will be getting baptized pretty soon too... they just need to get married and to do that James (ex. member) has to get divorced first. He just filed for it so it should take a couple of weeks. I am trying to convince her to let me baptize her in the ocean cuz they are getting married on the beach. They wanted me to marry them because I can because of the ministers certificate but President won't let me.... darn it. That would be a cool experience...
We just had transfer calls and I am staying here for another 6 weeks and Hill is staying but our district leader is leaving... we should know by tonight who is going to replace him and I hope its not me that would stink.
anyways I love you guys