February 28, 2010

G'day family,

This week was awesome, I really hope i have enough time to fit it all in. ok, so first off Elder Zabriskie and I baptized two more people this weekend, therer names are Talia he's samoan and 11 years old he is the man my favorite investigator so far. and then also his little 9 years old sister kristina, there baptism went perfectly and they were comfirmed this sunday. everything went great, i wish i could say that about the other two baptisms this saturday. ok so the othe missionaries had a baptism three hour before our and so we decided to attend, we get there and it is complete chaos. the two people to be baptised didn't even know they were gonna get wet, they didn't even have all white on. and when we got there the ward members jumped down our throat for not teaching them well enough but, we explained we are not their missionaries. on top of that, the missionaries who did teach them were not there and the program was supposed to start 15 minutes previous. they finally arrive 30 minutes late to their own baptism and things finally seemed to be in order. then it's time to baptise these two first is an 8 years old girl. the missionaries steps into the font and he tries to baptise her but messes up and has to do it again, the sencond time the same thing happend, her feet kept popping up, maybe thrid times the charm?... no, how bout fourth time,...no, fifth?... sixth?...no, seventh?... nope, it was the eighth time till she finally went all the way down. man the ward was just laighing poor little girl it was so funny. then when i thought it was all gonna be fine from there, we go up and confirm this little girl, i thought to myself "well atleast you can't mess up a confirmation." well i was very mistaken, this old man confirmes her he just said the things he needed to say and said amen with no blessing so they made him giver her a blessing then they made him do it all together. it was a wreck and this little girls name is Agueet Magok, but the older man was hard of hearing so he said Amulek, So little amulek was confirmed a member of the church. that nightmare ended and our baptism came and went perfectly. it was really nice. another really cool expirience we had this week was we went over to this less-active man's house (trevor) and gave him a blessing for his arthritic legs and he lives with a very drunk angry man, pretty much a Whino. he's crazy, so he had our hands on Trevor's head, and right in the middle of the administration the drunkard wine bibber comes out and he sees us in kitchen he pauses for two seconds and then says "What the Fu..." he was silenced, and he just walked through the room and right outside until he got out back. it was pretty cool, the spirit bound his tongue. we all talked about it in the car afterwards it was amazing. I think thats about it for this week. found a couple new investiagator i'm pumped to teach. And our mission presidents says Elder Zabriskie and I are leading the mission in success. he is very pleased with us, because everyone expected us to screw up because we are the goof off companionship, but nope were smashing everyone it feels nice. hahaha ya i kow thats prideful but it's nice to be looked at and asked how were so good at what we do. Oh I've been gone 14 months yesterday wahoo. I love you gus and Keep in touch please.

-Elder Ballard