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This week was awesome! Sorry that I didn't write a whole lot last week,  we were having technical difficulties. 

This week was fantastically amazing! It all started last Tuesday when we had a training day with President Riggs. SOOOO we learned how to use the Book of Mormon and Pamphlets better, then we practiced and practiced .... The only bad thing is we practiced in English, which is fine, but I can't really teach in English because I have never really had to teach in English. That really was awesome. 

Wednesday we had a great district meeting, we talked about Jonah, how we can't be like Jonah during our missions, no running and hiding!  We really need to talk to everyone. Some days it is hard not to be like Jonah. Especially with the group of people that you go to talk to at 8 in the dark!  It is O.K., I am alive and as the saying goes, "What doesn't kill you makes you stronger".  

So, on to Thursday ... Baptismal INTERVIEW DAY. The kids preparing for baptism on Saturday had their interviews on Thursday evening. We had a dinner appointment that usually takes around 1 hour and 30 minutes and an appointment that usually take 1 hour and a 30 minutes ... all to do in an hour and a half, talk about your time management skills!  Some how we did it (or almost) so we made it to the church only 10 minutes late. OH, Thursday was the year mark for Hermana Brown!!!!  Happy year!! Anyway, back to the interviews, while we were with the kids as they are all being interviewed, I remember that we have to get everything for the font figured out. Our ward mission leader says we can stop by on Saturday and get his keys and a Sister in the ward offers to make food, but she will need some help. My companion volunteered our help with the food while I was talking to the kids and volunteering to help them all get ready because they don't know about ties or what to wear. 

So then Friday.  First we had weekly planning and decided to have it in the library in a study room because we have a had time concentrating. Then President Riggs called and asked if he and his wife could come to our baptism the next day!! No pressure!! SO of course we said, "yes" it would start at 4. Then we went home and made brownies for the baptism.  

So we wake up early on Saturday, get dressed and off we go to help cook enchiladas and tacitos. As soon as we finish we are off to deliver baptismal clothes to the girls. Then rush over to get the keys to fill up the font, (It takes along time to fill a font) and then back and help cook some more food, then back to check on the water in the font and help the kids get in their white jumpers.  HECTIC!  President Riggs and his wife show up about 10 minutes early ...... and no one else came till 4.  Mormon standard time, right?  This is all fine except the person actually performing the baptism got caught in traffic and didn't get there till 4:30, but when he starts to get dressed, his white pants didn't fit.  AHHHHHH.  Stay calm and try to find some white pants ... who knew that a size 34 white pair of dress  pants would be so hard to find! It all turned out fine, the kids were baptized. Whewwwww. 

Sunday they were confirmed members of the Church and received the holy ghost, then my companion and I had a special musical number in sacrament meeting.  It was fun....

Oh yeah, in the middle of all that, My other recent convert Padilla wants to go to the temple this coming Saturday.  I have also been doing genealogy in Spanish.... I can't even do it in English let alone in Spanish!!!!!! I figured it out and I am going to go do baptisms on Saturday at the temple with Hermana Debry and Padilla. I am so excited!

After the baptism we were talking to a lesser active member and his girlfriend, who is our investigator, they want to get married so she can be baptized! We also had another investigator call us this this week to tell us that he wants to be baptized.... But yeah that is all that really happened this week!  See GREAT WEEK!

One other thing, so we went to eat with a member last night that is from Mexico. When we go into his house, we were talking and he introduces us to his daughter-in-law who was speaking German!  When we started talking to his two sons, they kept switching from German to Spanish to English ... and all the while this member is speaking in Spanish. So it happens his daughter-in-law is from Austria and met his son when he was on his mission in Germany!  A little coolness, but needless to say, we were expecting Mexican food and ate kish.....

Have a great week everyone, I Love You

Hermana Atkinson