She found a little piece of home!
Casey's baptism!
Yes it's COLD in Fort Dodge!
Elder Sanders will leve to go home this transfer. He's been a great Elder!
Elder Belliston & Halee practicing for their musical number for Zone Conference!
Mother Dearest as well as the rest of my beautiful family!!
This week was SO GREAT!!!!!!!!!!!!!! Casey Parmalee was baptized on Thursday! It was awesome... we had a few malfunctions but everything worked out! So the baptism was at 7pm on thursday so Sister Batty and I went at about 5pm to fill the font so it would be nice and warm! We turned it on and plugged it and left and then came back at about 6:30... the font was supposed to take an hour and a half to fill.... when we got back to the church it wasn't even CLOSE to being filled.. and the water temp. was at about 120 degrees!!! We were freaking out a little. So we started filling up pitchers of cold water and pouring them in the font so we were able to cool it off. But the font still wasnt filling up! So we went on with the baptism anyways... Needless to say that Casey had to get baptized three times in order to be fully immersed because the water level was at her knees (not lying)... her back basically touched the bottom of the font when she went down. I'm not sure how they got it done but they did! It was miraculous. We later came to find out that a little bit of the string that was connected to the plug in the font was wrapped sneakily under the plug causing some of the water to drain!! It was nuts... but it all worked out and the service turned out great! One baptism closer to 550!!!
So that was some good stuff on thursday! On Friday, we had Zone Training Meeting! It was way way good! I learned a lot! The Assistants had a really good training as well as the zone leaders and sister training leaders! the meeting was about 3 and a half hours long but it was so good! And I cant remember if I told you last week but this coming week we have zone conference and each district is either doing a play or a musical number. Our district is doing a musical number. Elder belliston and I are playing an arrangment of Silent Night on the guitars and everyone else is singing! It's super tight and we got to practice that on Friday and it sounds way sweet! I guess you could call it angelic! haha just kidding!
We also got to attend a really fun White Elelphant gift party on Saturday for the ward! It was way fun! Then we had church yesterday and it was awesome as usual! Then we got to watch the Christmas Devotional last night. It was way good! I love Christmas time!!! Everyone is so nice!!!
So... we are currently at 461 baptisms as a mission and our goal is 550. WE CAN DO IT!!!! I know the Lord is going to bless us if we just work hard and keep our covenants!! Please keep praying for us! I love you all so much! Can't wat to see you...16 days!!!!!
I know this church is true... if you ever struggle get back to the basics! PRAY, READY AND GO TO CHURCH!!! LOVE YOU!
Sister Halee Rogers
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