A BAPTISM AND NEW FRIENDS
Sisters with a recent convert from New Jersey
Bro. Hilton Baptized Bro. Mulhern on Saturday!
The Hilton Family!
Hello!
It's great to hear about everyone! I'm so glad
to hear Brad is doing awesome! Sometimes I think about him and worry
that he is going die from no sleep. It makes me grateful that I get a
good 8 hours of sleep every night! And that's exciting that you guys are
finally cleaning out the garage - I'm so jealous, I wish I could help
you clean it! While I've been out here my love for cleaning has
increased a lot (haha). I just love being tidy and organized. :-)
So this week is a new transfer! And guess what?
Sister Henderson and I are staying together in Moraga! Yipee!! We were
hoping we would stay together! It is her last transfer so she is going
home in 6 weeks, which is super sad!! :''( But that's okay, life moves
on I suppose. :)
Last week was awesome - Brother Mulhern's baptism
was on Saturday! And it was wonderful!! President Meredith (mission
president) came to the baptism too!! It is so funny because Heavenly
Father always has a way of making things work out perfectly! When Sister
Henderson and I first got to the building (which is huge - it's a
different building than the one we go to because ours doesn't have a
baptismal font), we could not for the life of us find the baptismal
font! We spend a good 15 minutes wandering around trying to find it (and
it was super creepy because it's an older building - we were there all
by ourselves and we kept hearing weird noises and once we swear we heard
a door slam! Haha) and then we finally called our ward mission leader.
He told us where it was (some random door in the far corner with no
sign) so we quickly went to fill the font. We were a little worried
because 1) it takes an hour to fill and we started it late so we were
worried it wouldn't be ready on time and 2) the font in that building is
like the size of a bathtub, and Brother Mulhern is basically like the
grandchild of Goliath (as Sister Henderson says haha) - he's about 6'8"!
But anyways, we quickly started it. Then we got everything set and
ready to go and people started showing up and Brother Mulhern and his
family still weren't there! They called and said that they were almost
out of gas so they had to stop and showed up just a couple of minutes
after it was supposed to start so the baptism itself started about 20
minutes late haha. But, in the end everything ended up working great!
The talks were awesome and Sister Henderson and I sang a musical number
(again) to fill in for someone who had to cancel the day before. :) The
font filled right on time and Brother Mulhern fit in the font! Yay!
Haha. Afterwards he and his wife hosted a BBQ at their house, and so
many people from the ward came!! It was awesome because we were a little
worried not very many people would be able to come because a lot of
people had just come back that week from Girl's Camp, Scout Camp, etc.
But there were so many people there and it was just wonderful! So long
story short, Heavenly Father answers prayers and always makes things
work out when you're worried or don't know how they will. There are so
many times on my mission that I've seen this happen and I'm still
learning about how to have perfect faith! Never worry - always have
faith! He always provides a way!
Another cool thing that happened last week - in the Visitor's Center we got a phone call from mormon.org
and it was a guy from Canada. He told us he was really offended because
he had called a couple of days earlier and whoever answered the phone
was really rude to him and he just had a question about the Word of
Wisdom. But after talking to him for a while, and apologizing about
whoever was rude to him, he really opened up to us! He told us he's been
meeting with sisters there in Canada and had a ton of questions for us.
Long story short, he is one of the funniest, open-minded people we've
talked to so far! We have a blast talking to him and answering his
questions. He also calls me Sister Sunshine (because he says my voice is
like a ray of sunshine to him! Hahah.)
Anyways, great week and we are happy to be staying
in Moraga! We are ready for more miracles and ready to work harder! Love
you all!
Love,
Sister Johnson
P.S. - Thank you also for sending more family history stories!! I do remember some of them! :)
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