Wherein Landen Goes to The Temple With A New Convert

March 5, 2018

     Wow Mom, I think that is the longest email you have ever sent us mom. Those regional conferences that they are doing are pretty cool. They did one here for the west and northwest regional areas of the US. and it was the same thing, like 30 minutes of local stuff, then 90 from Salt Lake. Elder Christofferson spoke at ours as well as another 70 and then one of the sisters in one of the presidencies - the one that is from Argentina who spoke in the Christmas devo. 

     They all spoke super well. It was a while back so I don't remember it super well, but they basically talked about how the way to salvation and exaltation is a simple 3 + 1 process. Three things to do every day (pray, read scriptures, and serve someone else) and 1 thing to do every week (renew covenants through the sacrament). Pretty cool stuff that helped our investigators that showed up a ton.

     We didn't really do anything much this week, worked hard, and battled with challenges like my comp being sick, and it raining on us while were biking, but we still had a great week!

     We went to the temple again this week! But not as missionaries, we went with Rafael!!!  It was super fun and cool because we had helped him to find his own family names and we were able to go with him and some members to do baptisms for his wife, parents, and grandparents. There was a ward of young women doing baptisms there at the same time so we just had one of the young women there do the female names that he had. And he just started bawling when he saw his late wife getting baptized (by proxy). It was a super spiritual experience - So cool to see his family getting even closer to being eternal.  Very cool experience, we have pictures, but I didn't bring them with me to the library, so you'll probs get those next week. 

Love you allllllll!  Btw cool stuff coming up that you'll hear about next week, love you Byyyyee!

Elder Landen Bailey

p.s. Tell Seth good luck on scholastic competition/

p.p.s. I want pics of the oompaloompa

p.p.p.s.  I don't think there is any correlation between not having to buy a phone and when we'll be going back, from the sounds of it, it's still a ways out.  But sounds good.