This week was busy! the other Elders in our District had Two baptisms this week!!! How cool is that! one was from a part member and the other was a referral from a member. and they are awesome! The baptisms went great and Bill asked me to speak on the holy ghost at his baptism, so i did... and he got baptized. :) Its crazy though because since im district leader i interviewed them both. so on tuesday we took most of the night driving to their houses and having interviews. I was so nervous! but as soon as we started the interview everything went well and i realized i had nothing to worry about. These people were prepared.
On Thursday we headed down to champaign and had interviews with our mission president! That went way good and i was able to tell him how everything was going with training and everything. Our mission pres is the best! Afterwards we went to lunch with the AP's and the office Elders and some Sister Training leaders. Have you ever been to Panera bread? man what a ritzy place! (Not really its kind of like a kneaders) but they had these loaves of fancy/amazing looking bead the size of a small dog and i was really tempted to buy it... maybe next time.
On Saturday after the baptism we headed over to the Hauffas to have dinner. The Zone leaders came to give Jimmy his interview. so we ended up getting there a little early and then they tell us that they are moving the date! what?! not just a week but all the way to november 23! im over it though. They had good reason. Jimmys daughter wanted to be there for the baptism and when she found out that it was supposed to be next week and she wasnt going to be able to be there she told them to move it so that she could and the ony available date was then. I felt kind of bad for the Zone leaders because they drove all the way up here and then when they found out we moved the date, we moved the interview as well. I guess you could say they drove all the way up here for a great meal :) how nice of them!
After the "interview/dinner" we went to back over to the church and we did a lehis dream walk through! That was fun! first we read about the dream (for those who didnt know... aka investigators) and then we blindfolded them (midst of darkness) and put them all in a room where we had a tiny bell by the rod (string wrapped in a maze through the church) And then the adversary would try to drown out the bell with a lot of other ruckus. When they finally got to the rod they would start following it and then it was a duel between the "holy ghost" keeping them on and the "adversary" trying to take them off. Eventually they got to the tree of life and partook of the fruit (candy) and then we talked about everyones experiences and then read 1 nep 11 and then related it back to our everyday lives. It was way fun and it was cool to see the people doing it finally get that they needed to hold fast to the rod and it would guide them the right way! Thats weird... it kind of like the gospel or something...? hold to it and you'll make it :)
Other then that this week has been full of finding people. Tracting and all that sort of stuff. Its been fun but i would rather be teaching then finding... Oh well you have to find before you can teach right?
Well i love you family! i hope you all are enjoying the change of seasons!
Hold Fast to the Rod!!!
Love,
~Elder Chris Jones~
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