As the title suggests, yeah, it's been pretty dang slow. It was supposed to be set up to be a fairly busy week, we had appointments set up for every single day. But guess what, they all fell through. It be like that sometimes. Anyway, I'm gonna talk about my day-by-day because maybe I'll remember more if I do it this way.
Wednesday: We actually went to the lady we baptized (P) this week's work to volunteer. She happens to work at another thrift store called "Waterfront" which is a lot more organized and put together than that of Salvation Army, I was pleasantly surprised. But yeah, we show up and P immediately makes us meet the manager who runs the whole dang place. Our job was basically to just put away their already tagged and priced items on the shelf, what a joy! Some lady who worked there actually got ticked off at us because we weren't putting certain glasses in their specific place. As soon as she left, we just rolled our eyes because that lady had to chill, all the glasses are the fricken same on that shelf.
Thursday: WEEKLY PLANNING, gosh it's just the best time of the week. We do this every single Thursday where we just talk about goals of our investigators and how we can apply them. I hate it so much, Elder Peterson and I dread it every week. It is supposed to be an hour and a half long about something we do every day already, but it's just on steroids. The end of Weekly Planning is what we call "Comp Inventory" where you talk about what you like about the other companion, so awkward. We kinda just look at each other and say "Yeah, I don't you. You're a dope dude." And boom, that's the end of that, next. We also taught Peggy the rest of the remaining commandments that weren't taught yet, and the girl was so ready to be baptized it was a breeze of a conversation. I'm getting better and better at teaching the more I do it and Elder Peterson says I have a powerful voice when I testify so that's great to here.
Friday: P’s baptismal interview with our district leader, Elder Bobadilla. Other than that, there wasn't too much that happened today that was memorable. I guess it's good to mention that I am getting pretty baller at playing piano because Elder Rust (Elder Bobadilla's companion) is amazing and is teaching me a thing or two. Things like Clocks by Coldplay, The Minecraft thing, you know, just dumb stuff like that.
Saturday: P got baptized. Yeah, that's two points on the board right there for Jackson Batman's baptisms. He's heating up. Elder Peterson informed me that same morning that I was going to be giving the talk on the Holy Ghost, so I had to throw something together. I got a lot of compliments after saying I speak very clearly and don't say "And umm.." which I was surprised. The baptism was fantastic, her family who aren't members drove down from Pensacola and saw P get put onto the path that leads to Eternal Happiness. How jealous they probably were. She was baptized and confirmed by her Father-in-law so I didn't get in all white for this one unfortunately.
Sunday: Another typical Sunday, took the sacrament and all that jazz. P was confirmed so that was a spiritual experience within itself and I was apart of the circle. After church, we went and visited a lot of people who were referrals. One in particular, A, who was a referral from the Spanish Elders, we've been trying to visit about 10 times at least and she has never been home. It seems like everytime we go to her trailer park home, there's always someone new in that house. This most recent experience was the most interesting because we basically watched an entire drug deal go down. Some random car pulls up, gives them a bag, collects some cash, then drives off and that was it. We go to the door and some guy named David said Aretha isn't home and doesn't know when she will be. He had an ankle monitor on, not surprising he was on house arrest.
Monday: Went to the fake Gator Alley because the original one wasn't gonna work for our whole district. We think we saw one gator, but it was so far out in the water that it could've been a tree branch. I took a pic, you'll see what I mean. Not too much else happened, played a butt ton of ping pong and anybody who knows me really knows I'm killer at ping pong. No competition from the other elders.
That's my week, a lot about P but that's okay because she is now following the example of Jesus Christ by being baptized. Let's hope that we don't stop this hot streak of baptism that we are on right now.
Guys, I want to let you know that I know that this church is true without a doubt. The Book of Mormon, that little book sitting on your nightstand, is the truest book on Earth and a man will "get closer to God by reading it" as Joseph Smith says. The fulness of the gospel, what Christ taught when he was on the Earth, is contained within it's pages. Joseph Smith is a prophet of God and translated the Book of Mormon by the power of God and what a blessing it is that we get to have it. Take advantage of it. I just recently got my witness that the Book of Mormon is the Word of God and I will not shut up about it. Read the fricken Book of Mormon, it will change your life for the better, it will allow the spirit to preside more often in your life and you will see miracles happen. A man will not just get closer to God by reading the Book of Mormon but by ACTING on what it teaches. The church is true guys, the church is true, because the Book of Mormon is true.
Love y'all
Elder Jackson Quincy Batman
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