Thunder's Baptism

January 29, 2018

Well this week has been a super crazy busy week, lots has been going on. 

To start off the week we had the other district leader elder Jensen call me late Monday night wondering if he could interrupt my district meeting the next day so he could roast Sister Goddridge during his portion ha-ha so of course I said yes! So the backstory to this plan is sis Goddridge did a portion last week on baptism and she compare it to volleyball and made a little cheer out of it seeing as she was a cheerleader before she came out here.  The cheer was "bump it, set it, spike it, that’s the way we like it!" So the plan was for my elders in the district to come in with pompoms and a big poster and start cheering Bump it, set it, spike it, that’s the way we like it! he was going to call us when he wanted us to come and do that.  It was pretty funny, we got he so red when we came bursting through the door yelling that and jumping around the table.  Scared sis Stokes when we came in screaming. Ha-ha so that was the start of the week.

Middle of the week we walked everywhere to get to our things since the ZLs took our car/ their car again, that was an adventure in itself.  We had a lesson late one night and it was a 40 min walk from our place to there, but luckily bro Moore gave us a ride after dinner at his place so we only had to walk one way.  He dropped us off and we went to the house and sure enough she lunched us... So we walked up the street a ways and tracted a house for fun.  They let us in!  A family on 8 from Africa that doesn't speak much English!  So we did what we could with that and set a time to come back the next day.  

The way home was super fun for us!  Sauni wanted to take the off road way home to save time but to tell the truth I think we took the same amount of time as we would have going the other way.  But it was fun ha-ha we jumped through people’s yards and ran across the main roads going into Regina, wouldn't suggest doing that, it’s pretty busy! We made it home alive before 9 so that was good! 

The next day we went to visit the Ali family (the ones from Africa) and we did an English lesson with them, which was not what we planned for them but it was fun!  Never had to teach English on the mission till then and it probably won't be the last.  They want us to come back every Thursday at 5 to teach them.  So we are going to teach them English with primary lessons.

After the lesson we went to the temple!! First time since I got out of the MTC.  It was super good! 

Friday night was an interesting night.  We went and helped Leticia our recent convert with the White Pony Lodge, it’s a program that they have for north central to help keep it a safe place.  So they go out every Friday and Saturday from 6-9ish and walk the streets at night cleaning up needles, and really anything that is potentially dangerous.  So we did that, but to start off Leticia has us all sit in a circle and smudge then talk about why we are here ha-ha it was interesting. Me and Sauni didn’t do it. Than we loaded up with flashlights and reflective vests and went out into the dark streets of north central, me, sauni, and 4 native ladies ha-ha  Eventually the sisters came to help us out to cause we had to run off to help another lady do a quick thing, so they filled in for us as we did that.  After the patrol we all sat in a circle again and smudged and talked again about everything.  The sisters did smudge however.  It was funny to watch, because they were trying not to cough as they did it.
The sisters left about 30 seconds before we did and I told them where I parked their car, because we used their car to help the lady and they got all scared because they thought someone might jump them as they walked the half block to their car.... So me being me I made it worse and scared them more and told them their car wasn't far from the lodge and they probably would get jumped ha-ha 
Right after they left I told Sauni to hurry up and we were going to run the sisters down on the way to their car and scare them!  So we ran out there and we got pretty close to them before they heard someone running up behind them and they lost it.  Sis Wilson was on the ground screaming bloody murder and sis peacock was tripping over herself to get away!!!! It was the best! They thought they were done for as they turned to see 2 guys running at them.  I wish I got it on video! Sis Wilson chased me around for a bit after that ha-ha 
On the way home from white pony me and Sauni saw a SWAT team sitting outside of a house not far from our place.  They had the big trucks and guys with riot shields everywhere it looked pretty intense!  Sauni got a video of that for us as we drove by.
Did a few blessings this week for people.  One for the sister’s investigator Janna to help her stop smoking.  We did that one right in the entrance of a women’s half way home with her sitting on a furnace that came out of the wall a little bit.  Kind of a different setting to do it but the spirit was still very strong as I gave that blessing to her. The other was for one of the member’s kids who was sick.  
Thunder got baptized here on Saturday!! It was super good!! By the time we got that baptism done we were so tired!  Everything fell apart the night before it.  Our 2 speakers were canceling on us and the programs weren’t printing right, and when we got to the church the gate to it was locked!!! So that put us behind a little bit.  But we made it all work in the end and it went super good!! The first thing thunder said to me after I baptized him was "I’m cold, but I’m happy!"   The water was cold.... ha-ha the previous people tampered with the water settings according to bishop.  it was warm when we got it going but the half hr. before must have been long enough to make it cold.

This week was a really good week for us!  And we are so glad it’s over! 

Love ya all, talk to you next week!