Well... everything is up in the air... again...

Hello everyone! I have to make up for my last email because it was pretty abysmal. This week was probably one of the most stressful of my entire mission. We didn't have confirmation on if our friend was getting baptized until Saturday morning! So we RUSHED to get all the things done. We got the program finalized and contacted who we needed to contact. Did some damage control and checking and rechecking things and then on Sunday we had to give some talks in sacrament meeting about missionary work and that was actually really cool because a bunch of our friends came and were excited to see us, and of course you know we wrote the talk the morning of. Situated all of our friends for 2nd hour. That was actually cool. And then after we rushed making some cookies then printed out the program and set up the chairs and then started confirming with people. We asked our friend getting baptized to show up a half hour early so we can finish his baptismal/member record stuff which we honestly should've done before so our bad on that one. Well our friend shows up late to his baptism and so we just start with the intention to get it done right after. On the way to us walking him to the font, well, he starts to feel really uncomfortable and well has this panic attack. So we waited awhile and a couple brothers that he really respected came to talk with him and make sure everything was okay. Honestly for about 15 minutes i was thinking he wasn't going to get in the water but finally he made the decision and we administered the ordinance. Now I really wish it was a super happy ending from here but wow the devil would just not give up on our friend. We then did the confirmation and our friend was still fighting. After the service he left to go home so we didn't get to do his member record form still. Our friend just seemed super overwhelmed at that point and we had some pretty good conversation with him over the phone and we also called one of our mission Presidency who had also talked to him over the phone and was there at the baptism. At the end of it all we realized that the devil still doesn't want to let our friend go and it's manifesting in all these different ways. We also talked about how we need to keep supporting him. I learned from this all that we can really really really wish God to just make everything right and he can, however, we need to trust in the hard work that is expected of us to be enough of an offering to make everything right. We realize that our friend Collin is still going through it and that this Gospel really is a Gospel of Change, however, change can be very hard. One thing that one of the bishopric members remarked to us was that there was a talk in General Conference where the speaker said that they did not fully gain a testimony of their baptism till years after and it could be the same with our friend. Please keep our friend Collin in your prayers. If you got through this whole paragraph then thank you.

Some other cool things that happened was we had a lesson with our friend Kyra and the park and the most amazing member come to her lesson. Kyra also brought her Malamute and Husky mixed dog.

Had another lesson with our friend Tyler and we also had an awesome returning member come to that. They had already known each other before and we got to teach one of my favorite lesson, Plan of Salvation. We mostly focused on how God gave us this plan out of love.

We also cleaned our friend Gary's car and he wanted to buy us some sandwiches.

I really should start taking pictures with our friends because I'll probably forget them one day.

Secured a bag of cooked spaghetti from our favorite members, THE Mcfarlands!

Had some sad and disappointing moments, we had some really cool friends cancel lessons on us and a couple heartbreaking stories from people.

Got to eat some fish and chips today! 

It would be so cool if we all got to catch glimpses of each other lives. 

God loves you and merry Christmas!