Last two weeks have been NICE. Definitely feeling like we are being given success from Heavenly Father. Since we've had access to Instagram, it's been a game changer when contacting people that are younger. It seems to be the younger generations are more receptive to our schpeel since they don't know a whole lot about our church and really other churches. They see two 20 year old guys getting hype about some church and it gets them going. That's what I like to see. Anyway, we had a baptism this last weekend. Her name is D, she's 22 years old, and we met her on Facebook. There's your proof that we don't waste time on social media. I basically just asked her if she's curious to hear what our beliefs are and eventually got to a video call. The rest is history. It was not easy though, we told her she would face opposition by being on baptismal date since Satan hates when we do the right thing and an unfortunate opposition she faced was that her mother passed away unexpectedly. They don't teach you how to deal with this in Preach My Gospel.
We weren't really sure what to do, I mean I don't know if I'd want to be baptized if I was facing something like that. But, D being the super solid person she is kept pressing on and made it to her baptismal date. Even she agrees that she feels happier than she ever has in her entire life. Her mom just died guys, the gospel must be true if she's happier than she's ever been.
On to other things, we have another baptism scheduled for next week for J. He's someone we've been working on but the timing has been rough until now. He's 12 years old and he's super excited to finally get baptized. We did have to call his mother and basically plead our case on why we think baptism is the play for her son since she was reluctant. She said something like "If you think getting him involved in the church will be better than any parenting that I could I do then I'll do it." We basically just said yes. It's true in every case.
Oh, we were able to get the recent convert in this area to go get his patriarchal blessing. I was so happy for the guy, he loved the experience. We are working real hard to get this guy prepared for the Temple one day. Especially since his father passed away not long ago and we want him to have that experience of baptising him.
Other stuff... Well, Elder Ryser and I have been keeping track of everytime we get hit on by either male or female. When you're DMing people all day on both Facebook and Instagram, you run into a few here and there. We just laugh it off and try to change the subject with the person, but usually in this case it's not something we can really pursue further teaching-wise. Missionary work nowadays is so jank. Never would I expect to have to have push away so many gay guys on my mission, but it is what it is.
That's kinda all I got. I'll let you know how J's baptism goes. Should be pretty dope if the kid can behave for a week. We'll see.
Have a blessed day,
Elder Batman 🦇
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