Stead and Cold Springs

Great week this week! Lots of fun stuff!

Elder Schloemer and I are having tons of fun up here in Stead and Cold Springs.
One of our investigators and her kids are gearing up and ready to get baptized, as well as a few more individuals who are currently considering their dates!

Working on a training in park while we wait for new tires!

We found another bomb investigator who is so prepared. She just accepted a baptismal date in mid may, but turns out she actually doesn't live in our area! So we will be doing a pass off soon, yay free baptisms for other areas haha! No but it will be really good for that ward!

We have been running in the mornings and biking more often, so the weight should start falling off soon! Except our members keep giving us literal bags of cookies and muffins, soooooooo idk.

A wild Duggo appeared!

Another Duggo!

Anyway, not much else specific to mention. We as a mission are going to be reading the Book of Mormon in 65 days, and I am excited! It has so much power in it, and I am so grateful I can read it literally every day and feel uplifted by it! If you want to join me and my mission in this challenge, let me know!

Have a great week!

Coming unto Christ!

Hello everybody! Sorry for no email last week, emailing on phones is hard! Hope you all had a great one though! We have had some awesome stuff go down, though! Like:

Our Mission is now utilizing smart phones, for mission work only.
Its been a while since I've held one of these.

Elizabeth Razo's baptism! It was so exciting! It was the most well attended baptism I have ever been to and there was so much dang food! Sister Razo made some tamales and so that was awesome.

Sister Razo's Baptism!

On Thursday we were able to go to the temple again as a zone, and that's always a blast!

Temple Trip!!!

We got transfer news, and I will be staying in this area again, with Elder Schloemer. That will be awesome! Elder Schloemer has been like a role model of mine since I was in Sparks (like more than a year ago), so I am super excited.

In sadder news, Elder Torres is going home Wednesday! It has been a good 2 years for him and he has fought the good fight! It's been awesome to be his companion, though. There's always so much you learn from each companion, and I have gotten a lot from him.

The results of 18 months of walking and cycling in the rain, snow and sun.

Not much else to report on. Have a great week!

Easter and Conference!

We had an amazing week this week! Lot's of lessons, always staying busy. We found a couple more investigators thanks to some awesome member missionary work! We as well had zone conference, where we pretty much just helped everyone set up their smartphones. As of this week, every missionary in the Nevada, Reno Mission has a smartphone. Crazy!

Breakfast of champions

I went on some awesome exchanges with Elder McGee that I forgot to get pictures for so my b!

But they were great. Reminded me of home, because we went to this trailer park and got to do some serious redneck-engineering! We got a massive boat off of a normal flatbed trailer onto a boat trailer on dry ground. Using hand winches, tires, and floor-jacks. It was pretty incredible! It felt like I was rebuilding the Provo City Center temple or something!

Elder McGee!

Redneck-engineering

Then we were able to watch General Conference! That was so amazing! I felt so strongly that Russel M. Nelson is truly the prophet of God on the earth as we sustained him Saturday morning. Loved conference, and all of the changes are truly a testimony to me that the Lord is hastening his work, and is instituting a sort of "higher law" for the rising generation! It is a great day to be a missionary and a member of the Church of Jesus Christ on the earth today!

We got to watch one of the sessions with the Razo family, and they are doing super well! Well on their way toward baptism!

That's pretty much all folks!

Hope you have a great week, and happy Easter!