I Love My Job!

Hey everyone!! Its been a couple weeks!! Mostly because i havent done much that wasnt normal.

I had the opportunity to start doing baptismal interviews, and it was crazy.  I did my first interview a little more than a week ago on Thursday.  I did 5 more on Friday, another one on Saturday and an eighth one on Sunday.  Followed by 7 more this week.  Now ain't that un poco loco.  For the record, that's not normal.  After I got to this area 4 weeks ago, the whole zone starting baptizing a ton!!  ....every area except mine.  Its okay I'm enjoying my time here and doing good work, just waiting on others to acept the good word of God.  But it was pretty cool.  One of them started telling me their entire life story before the interview... then they finished telling their entire life story and it took like 30 min.

Other than that, we had to drop some people that were really progressing a lot because they moved away.  Then a couple days later we found out that neither of the families actually moved away. We still don't know if they were just both lying or whatever but either way,  it's whatever.

We also got our new mission president and he is pretty awesome.  He used to be in the army and he did a lot of really cool explosive special forces things.  It is really weird because he seems like super serious, but when you talk to him he is super super chill.  He hasn't changed anything about the rules yet but I'm still hoping to get my dinner hour back haha.

We also have really awesome members in this area. We have lunch every day.  I have been here for 4 weeks, and I'm still receiving lunch from new members.  They also love to go out and teach with us , which makes the work really cool and fun.

Other news,

- I saw my brother walking barefoot on carpet, and it was the most surprising and shocking thing I've seen in weeks.  I completely forgot carpet existed!!  I never thought that could happen haha 

- I have been giving my comp a lot of blessings while he's been going through a rough time.  It is so cool to see the spirit speaking through me.  There was one time that I had a strong impression to not finish the blessing but I didn't know why.  I waited for like thirty seconds for a prompting of what else I should say.  Eventually , I received a little something like always remember that god loves you or something like that, and then finally finished the blessing.  It was so incredible because my cump told me afterwards that he was just praying that I wouldn't finish the blessing yet so he could hear more words from God.  It was one of the strongest impressions that I have felt within immediate results.  Incredible.

Have a great week yall!!

Élder Blacker 

Pics include:  my comp with ring worm in his neck, a guy that climbs a tower often that had a baptismal date and more 





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