Week 48

Hello family!

 

This week was pretty darn good!  the guy we are teaching here, Cyrel, is making alot of progress! he finally read from the BoM and prayed about it and had a really good experience with it, i went to the baptism of Ryan's wife which i will go into more detail about in a bit, had my birthday, and stuff like 'aat

 

So the baptism.  The day was kinda crazy for me.  First i got a ride to the mission office from a member in my ward who works like next door to it, where some other elders were supposed to pick me up and i'd spend the morning and afternoon with them until the ride from Lebanon came to take me and Elder Dudley to Illinois.  Well, the elder's didn't come get me till like 1 o'clock...  So i was at the mission office for like 5 hours...  So the office staff people had me doing odd job's filing whatever they needed filing.  So i filed all the emails to president...  so that was kinda weird.  Then they had me file their bills and stuff.  Also kinda weird.  Anyways so the Greenhills elders finally come to pick me up and i spend the next 2 1/2 hours with them.  The greenhills elders are the ones who cover downtown Nashville...  So we had a referral who said he lived at an address on 2nd ave in Nashville, which is like the crazy street in Nashville!  anyways it turned out that the address he gave us was to Coyote Ugly...  ha.

Then my ride to Illinois shows up and we drive for 4 hours down to the baptism, but we hit this nasty traffic for like 3 miles and so we wont get to the baptism till 30 or so minutes after its supposed to start, but we called them and they were nice enough to wait for us to start it.  So finally we have the miracle baptism of Ryan's wife who wouldn't even let us see him for a long time cause she was too die hard catholic!  And the coolest part was that it was on my mission birthday! 

Well ALL the speakers talked forever and the service didn't get over till like 8:45 and we had to stay and talk for a few minutes of course, and we didn't leave till 9:05 or so...  So i had to get permission to stay the night at Lebanon's place cause we had a zone meeting the next day anyways.  We didn't get back until like 1 o'clock...  I was tired the next day.

 

And that is the end of my story!  And my email!

 

Love ya'll!

-Elder Martin