Baptism!!

Hey ya'll!

What a great week ive had:) And i wanna tell yall about 2 people that have made this week the best week of my mission so far!

The first is John. I told ya last week that we had miscommunication problems. Well we went over to his house this week and visited with him. We taught him everything he needed to know for his baptism and he wanted to do it on the 10th. We were so excited. When we got home that night and were talking about it I realized that it was day light savings Sunday morning. We kinda freaked out for a minute and thought wow could anything else make it any more difficult to get John baptized. But we made sure to call him and have him set everything and called his ride and we personally made sure everything was perfect for him! On saturday night my comp and I set all the clocks forward. Come to find out the next morning my comps alarm clock sets itself forward automatically. So we were up at 4 in the morning. But we went to the church, filled up the font again and John showed up which was great! We had the regular church service. Then after church and right before a pot luck that the members were putting on we did the baptism!

We had a couple people give talks, then it was my part of it where I got to baptize John. So we get in the font and John was spinning in circles trying to figure out where to stand, but I finally got him over by me. Then I was trying to get the hand placement right and I couldnt get it for the life of me. But after a minute or so I finally got it. It felt kinda weird but I kept going. I baptized him and we got out and he started getting undressed when the ward mission leader came back and said wait we have to do it again. I was kinda puzzled but he asked me, "Did you have your left hand to the square?" O MY GOSH! I coudnt believe it! I had done the whole thing backwards and had my left hand up. Thats why I couldnt get my hand placement right! So we got him back down in there and baptized him the other way:) With my right hand to the square this time! hahah I was laughing and couldnt believe i had done that:) So that was the embarrassing moment of the week but great because I got a baptism!!!!!!

So the other person I wanted to mention was our neighbor Scott. I dont know if I told you about him but I will tell ya again if I did. He is in his 50s and had a rough life growing up. Didnt really have a good family and his mom and grandma would beat him. He has been divorced a couple times and his kids dont talk to him. He got into a really bad car accident a while ago and was in the hospital for a while. they didnt think he would live and if he did he would be paralyzed for the rest of his life. But he lived and moves around totally fine! It was a miracle. But we met him at the library and he wanted help with computer stuff. He said he wanted to find good Christian friends after his accident. We were the first people he met with. We have known him for about 2 weeks. The first week we would go see him and show him how to use his laptop and windows 8. The start of this week we have been trying to help him get wifi at his house through at&t but we got to talking about the gospel with him. We wanted to know how our church got started and more about our church. We talked to him for a couple hours then asked if he wanted to come to church this sunday and come to the baptism and pot luck. He said yes so we went and gave him a tour of the church. When we showed him the baptismal font and talk about baptism he said that he felt like he had been saved when he was 14 but felt like he needed to get baptized again. We went over that night and taught him the first lesson, the restoration. You could feel the spirit so strong and he believed everything! We asked him to pray and as he did he broke down in tears! Saying he has been praying for this all his life and has been praying for people like us to come into his lives! He came to church and loved it! After the pot luck he said that this was one of the best days of his life! That every one was so kind to him and that he would be back next sunday! We went over sunday night to watch Joseph Smith the prophet of the restoration with him and he loved the movie. We talked to him about the BOM and he said that he wants to read it with us. We tried to set a baptismal date, and he said that he wants to get baptized but doesnt want to set a date just yet because of surgeries in the near future like in a couple of weeks.

But i know that God has prepared Scott for me! Im so grateful to be out here and to be blessing Scott and others lives! I know im truly bringing them closer to Christ and bringing them back to live together as an eternal family!! I love teaching! We have a few more investigators that we are working with that are moving slower but it is still amazing to see their lives change through the gospel! I have had 2 opportunities to teach a less active couple with Pres Holzapfel and his wife! They are truly amazing people and I love learning from him!! He is one of the World famous scholars for the bible and knows so much about the gospel!! I dont know if you heard or not but there are around 120ish new mission presidents going out in July. Our mission is one that is getting a new mission prez. His name is Richard D. Hanks. I cant wait to meet him as well!

But anyways I love this gospel! I know its true! I love you all and keep writing me I love letters and emails!! Thank you all for your prayers I really can see in my life that because of them miracles are happening!

Love,

Elder Hall