Hey everyone! This week started out so awesome! We were planning on 3 baptisms this weekend and lots of great stuff! On Thursday night our District Leader came down on exchanges and was to interview two of our investigators for baptism, sadly while at dinner Catherine the one who quit drinking coffee, smoking, and has been doing great, called and actually cancelled her and her daughters baptisms. That was so sad to hear. We were with our bishop and he was very understanding and comforting toward us. It was hard to originally hear but it is her choice so we'll leave it at that. Our other awesome investigator Tony Elpers was interviewed and found ready, so on Saturday May 7th 2011 at 6:00 pm he was baptized by Elder Jordan Haderlie. It was definately a sweet experience, his father an inactive member almost started crying it seemed. It was great though! We didn't get any pictures due to the fact we had to find him something other than his jumpsuit to wear cause it was a little snug on him. So we had to begin the baptism. Sadly Sunday Tony didn't come to church and has not been confirmed a member of the church. This coming Sunday is the day he will be coming, (hopefully) its so hard when people are doing great and slip up. It hurts to see them do that to themselves. We do however have a baptism again this weekend, Chelsea Brackette! She just got married about two or three weeks ago to a member who was inactive and has since come back, he received the Aaronic Priesthood after they were married and will be doing the baptism! She is so perfect and ready, in the baptismal interview questions it asks, Do you believe in God, Jesus Christ, Joseph Smith and then it asks you, What does this mean to you? We asked her that the first time and she said she had to get back to us haha, then we asked her that yesterday again and she gave us the most sincere answer, it was awesome! She told us essentially that she wants to be able to tell her son when he is older that this is what she believes and knows, she wants to follow it to help her family be better, she is great! Hopefully we find some more peopel to teach soon as well. A talk given in Sacrament meeting yesterday mentioned something I really liked, I felt like I had done something wrong and had done something to mess up Catherines baptism. So I was very repentent on Sunday well in one of the talks, Brother Hendrickson says, you can't go back and start over, but you can start now and move from where you are now. I loved that, its so true, well gotta go Haderlie is ready to leave! Love yall! Have a great week!

 

-Love Elder West :D