Washington Tacoma Mission

Chase will be serving for two years as a missionary for the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints in the
WASHINGON TACOMA MISSION.

If you're curious, click here for a short animated video about LDS missions from Mormons Made Simple .

More info can also be found here at Mormon.org



Monday, July 16, 2012

"Come to ours, of course!"

July 16, 2012

It's been a crazy week!
Haha,  I just realized I could (and probably do) start every email that way, I can't think of any week where I couldn't start out that way.  
Anyways, the point is a lot happened as usual! 
On Tuesday, we went to the New Missionary Meeting.  Get it? It's funny, cuz I was there just a few days ago it feels like, and now I was there again!  But not as a new missionary!  so weird haha.  I got to see some of my favorite people there which was a lot of fun, and afterwards we were eating lunch in the mission home.  So I'm sitting down eating and I get a call from DeeDee (whose baptism is in like 5 days.)  We had a lesson at 4 o'clock that day, which she cancelled because she said she wasn't feeling well.  Then she went on to say that her friends had been talking to her about why she shouldn't join the Mormon Church, and she should go to a bunch of other churches instead, and listen to what other preachers had to say about mormonism, and she said she didn't want to get baptized anymore, maybe she would consider it down the road.  So we reschedule the lesson for Thursday. 
 
So on Thursday we're trying to have this lesson, and Sister C (in the ward) is supposed to come as well
Except Sis. C is lost and we have trouble getting her there, so we're like 25 minutes late, and we call DeeDee on the phone and she's just like telling us about her day and how terrible it's been and everything she's going through- it was all so stressful!  But eventually we get in and everything falls into place. Sis. C and DeeDee click immediately, and throughout the whole lesson, she is just the perfect person to be there for her.  DeeDee felt the spirit really really strong, and definitely recognized it.  She said she still wanted to be baptized on the 14th and hoped it wasn't too late.  I told her it wasn't too late :) [[because I never cancelled it in the first place hahahaha]]
Her baptism was awesome, and I remembered to bring my camera, so I have a picture of it!  My boy (his new companion, Elder B, fresh from the MTC) got to baptize her, and I witnessed, it was AWESOME :)  I'm so proud of him, I may or may not write more about him later, but he's legit.  
DeeDee was baptized on the 14th, and I got to confirm her on the 15th and I'm so excited for her! She likes meeting new people, so Relief Society has been awesome for her, and a lot of awesome women have been welcoming her with open arms!  
Oh, also when we went to church, we ran into the bishop before sacrament meeting.  He told us that a nonmember was talking to his LDS friend, and this nonmember, Marius, asked what church he should go to.  The LDS friend told him to come to ours, of course haha :)  
So he showed up, by himself, at church!  We sat by him and answered his questions and such  (He was an active catholic, so he knows a lot about church, but had never been to an LDS service, so we talked about some of the similarities and differences), and we are going to meet again on Wednesday for the first discussion.  
But my favorite part is this- He was gonna meet with the bishop after sacrament meeting, so he goes out into the hall towards his office.  At this time, Elder B and I are talking with other people, so we aren't there, but as Marius walking down the hall, he passes some missionaries from the other ward.  They notice he is wearing jeans, so they are talking to him, and ask if he's a member, and he replies "No, but soon to be."   hahaha isn't that awesome?!?  One of the missionaries who talked to him was my friend, Elder H, so he told me about it about 5 minutes later , haha.

Welp, Love you a lot!

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