May 14, 2018 Mothers day and Baptisms

Hey everyone!  This week has been crazy busy but totally worth it!  Hope y'all enjoy!

Monday: Last Pday was great, hit up a shopping mall, that took up most of our day, so yeah

Tuesday: Today we did some service!  we got a call and ended up doing some yard work, mostly pulling weeds and stuff like that but it was sweet!   So our progressing Gator (investigator) had his interview today to be baptized!  We were super excited but so nervous at the same time!  So about 1 hour 45 mins later the interview finally ended...  He passed!!!!  We're so excited for this weekend!  Holy cow the church is true!

Wednesday:  So prepping for a baptism is super hard.  My area hasn't had a baptism for awhile and so everyone was freaking out about it, therefore life was crazy.  But we got a call and had to save another elder who was having a crazy allergy to a bush he touched, his elbow was super swollen and looked super nasty, they didn't have a car so we drove them.  Later that day we were called and asked to do some service, helping load up a pick up and unload it.  So we hooked back up with the other elders we saved and were just about to head out and the lady told us she couldn't do it until later that night.  bummer but we ended up helping clean out some gutters for a couple in the other ward.  Turns out the guy we helped use to rent from my work Timp Rental!  Small world people!  He ended up giving me a sweet that says Warriors weekend!  We Then drove to Plattsmoth for dinner with our progressing investigator and then drove up to south Omaha to load up this pick up  truck, we toasted so many miles today, about 82 and our average is 30 a day...  but we were serving the Lord!

Thursday:  District meeting!  So since we're running low on miles we walked to district meeting and showed up all hot and sweaty.  District meeting was super good and about praying with Faith and how to be effective in our prayer and instead of praying we are saying prayers.  It was super good!  Afterwards we hit up  Taco Bell and then off to Shenandoah...  Exchanges!  We had exchanges with our DL and it was super fun!  I went with the DL Elder Towne and it was so sweet!  we drove a lot trying potential and talking to people, we talked to a few people, but not much luck.  We had dinner with the other Elders with a family, it was cool.  Our last appointment was a referral and it was like 3 miles off the road, so we took our Toyota Corolla (Carrol) on it, and it was sweet!  We finally showed up to this farm and pulled off the side of the dirt road and started saying our prayer with faith.  After we finished 3 people were standing outside our car, turns out it was the guy who was the referral!  He is a farmer and a Catholic, so usally they yell at us and we leave but he actually wanted to learn more!  We talked to him and his wife and gave them a copy of President Nelsons study guide to the Book of Mormon and set a return apt!  So cool!  

Friday:  So we didn't have any service while on exchanges, so on our way home we found out that our progressing investigators mom in law pasted away:(  and it has been a super rough week for him and his family.  The sister missionaries tried to contact them but didn't have any luck:/  We drove home and and headed off to another service, mowing a lawn, we showed up and the lady told us the lawn was too wet, but we ended up mowing half of her yard.  It was fun but I was stuck with a crappy electric weed eater.  We got the job done.  We finished the night at a Spanish party that one of our member was hosting, she was celebrating her 2 year anniversary of her company, so she wanted us to be there to answer any questions about the Gospel to her friends but all of them spoke Spanish so it was interesting.  She ended up calling us up as a sponsor, and talking a little about the church and what our role is as missionary's.  We got free t-shirts our of it and were in the company pic!  we also got sweet mexican food as well!  It was a sweet night, even though I didn't understand half the things that were said it was good.

Saturday: Baptism day!  So fun fact, the font takes about 3 hours to fill and you have to watch it to make sure nothing goes wrong.  It was totally worth it!  The spirit was so strong.  Im so grateful for this Gospel.  Saturday was awesome.  Word can't describe how I feel right now.  Next stop is the Temple!  Our Ward mission leader took us out to eat and I had sushi for the first time and it was super good!  

Sunday:  Happy Mothers day!  Im so grateful for all the amazing moms out there!  Today was cool, me and Elder Sandberg taught Primary singing time, that was scary, they trusted us with a bunch of kids...  it was fun, we sang follow the prophet and taught the kids about each prophet!  As most of you know We get to call home today and it was so cool!  Just for an update everything is good in the Phelon home in case if anyone was wondering.  It was a special moment for me and my family.  Im grateful for that chance I had to talk with them and catch back up!  Well hope everyone had a great week!

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