More baptisms!

April 18, 2011

Another week is gone.  Things are beginning to seem surreal.  It feels like I'm kind of in a dream and I don't know what to think.  Luckily I have a greenie that is not going to get trunky if I talk about going home.  I keep on making jokes that I'm going home.  It helps me cope with the fact that I'm going home.  haha.

That being said, not much happened this week... except that we set a family of 5 for a baptism date for the 14th of May!!  Probably 4 of them will end up getting baptized, but that is still awesome!  Also, Nick, Anna's atheist friend has been meeting with the missionaries in his area and is getting baptized on saturday... AND HE ASKED ME TO BAPTIZE HIM!!!  He called me up and said, "hey, since you were my first missionary, I was wondering if you could baptize me."  This is so cool!!!  I never thought that any of this would happen right at the end of my mission.  I am amazed at all the blessings that I am receiving just from being involved in the changes that people are making in their lives!  Hopefully Nick will go on a mission.  That would be awesome if someone went on a mission because of my efforts as a missionary.  I know that Anna is already going to go.

Still no news on Anna.  She moved in with her cousin on the other side of town and she has been meeting with the missionaries over there.  So it is all in their hands.  I told them that the baptism had to happen as soon as possible after everything is figured out because I need to see it happen before I leave.  I just have to.  Thank you for praying for her.  I think she is getting a little discouraged.

Well that is about all I have.  I love you all.  I'm excited to see you in a couple weeks!

-Elder Blakemore

PS~ This member was teasing me yesterday and he asked me how many hours I have left.  I told him that I wasn't THAT trunky and then I promptly figured it out and went and told him 379 hours!  Haha!