Hermana Emily Barlow: INDIRA'S BAPTISM!

Indira's Baptism

First off, I was wrong about my email last week saying that the Patriots won haha. My dad deceived me and I completely thought that they won, but I guess they didn't so yay!! Haha super embarassing though that I got it wrong :) I guess I'm also making things super confusing with the comp thing. I don't have a new companion yet! Sister Nalder is still here and I love her to death and I'm going to be so so sad when she goes home in 3 weeks. But I have been spending a lot of time with Sister Holt with exchanges when our companions go out with the other sisters, and Sister Holt is awesome :):)

Well I am emailing today cause Sister Nalder & I are going to the TEMPLE! During our mission we can go to the temple 2 times for a personal visit, but we have to change our p-day to do so. But I am so so excited to finally go today and I will send some more pictures on Monday :)

Contacting has been getting better, since we mostly knock apartment complexes there are a lot of potentials in our area book from past missionaries, but since we knock by campus people move around a lot. So Sister Nalder and I decided to just start fresh with our contacting, and our mission president has really stressed the idea of asking inspired questions to help teach people. We had a really cool contact last Monday night with a guy named Daniel! He is amazing, wow. Super strong faith in Christ and he stood outside and talked with us for 45 minutes, basically telling us his life story! He agreed to let us come back another time and was super friendly with us, he was like "Ok well it was nice to meet ya, I'm gonna give y'all a hug!" And he came closer to me to give me a hug and i'm just like "Uhhhhh sorry no." hahaha so yeah we had to explain why we don't give hugs and all that stuff and he was okay with it, but super funny.

One of the nights that I was on exchanges with Sister Holt, we taught Caitlyn who is roommates with Madeleine, one of the members in our ward. She was taught 2 other lessons before Christmas break, but we weren't able to keep in contact with Caitlyn cause of the holidays and everything. And it was my first time meeting Caitlyn cause the other times she was taught I was on exchanges in another area. But anyways, Caitlyn is just the cutest and she is so close to baptism! We had an awesome lesson on the Plan of Salvation, and she is just so solid. She has been coming to church with Madeleine and they read the Book of Mormon together every day :) can I just say how much I love the members here??

The highlight of the week was definitely Indira's baptism. Wow it was so good! haha the only downside was that it was a 2 hour baptism. Macony who baptized Indira was came really late from work so we had to wait for him, and then after the baptism ordinance we were waiting 15 minutes after Indira came out and everything, just wondering what is taking Macony so long to get ready. Finally one of the members realized that he didn't take his bag of extra clothes with him in the bathroom, so they had to go run the bag to him. ay ay ay hahah fun stuff :) but it was a beautiful baptism! In gospel principles on Sunday Indira talked shared with everyone how she was just recently baptized, and she shared how much joy she felt the day of her baptism and wishes that everyone can feel of that same joy. Not just some people, but EVERYONE! It was so cute :)

Well I think that's it for this week! I love y'all so so much and I'm so grateful for your love & prayers every day! There is nothing greater than doing the Lord's work! I know that He lives and loves us, and that His gospel brings everlasting happiness.

Con amor,