Week 85: Peace in Christ

We put an 11 year old named Logan on baptismal date for February 19th! He's the son of an inactive member but his grandpa and grandma are super active. He's excited to be baptized!

We had a lesson with the Johnson boys (These are the boys we visited with Elder Dunn of the Seventy) and I was the boldest missionary you've ever seen (In a good way. I hope). Their parents are members but the boys haven't been baptized because their mom wants them to be baptized in Lake Superior and that hasn't worked out. Basically these boys should've been baptized a long time ago and they are some of the most active kids in our ward so we were trying to get them to buckle down and finally choose a date to be baptized. The boys were all for it, one of them even said he would get in the font right then if he could. The parents said they couldn't choose a date right then so we told them that we would be asking what day they chose in one week from then. Hopefully the mom can give up her dream of the boys being baptized in Lake Superior?? 

Yesterday 8 people came to church! Cynthia and Robert's phones have been dead for weeks so we haven't been able to contact them for awhile and they showed up at church! I looked back when sacrament meeting was starting and I had to do a double take cause I couldn't believe they were there. We got their new phone numbers and Cynthia said, "I'm so happy to be back at my church!" Let's go!! Hopefully we'll be meeting with them this week. 

We've also started to teach some friends of members and part member households so that's been cool and some of them came to church!

Two weeks ago I was asked to sing in church because my lovely companion told the music cordinator that I sing. So yesterday I sang "Peace in Christ" in sacrament meeting. I've done quite a few performances in my life but I always get really nervous. It went okay though and I'm glad I did it because it got me out of my comfort zone once again. Recently I've been pondering the lyrics to this song: 

He gives us hope 

When hope is gone. 

He gives us strength 

When we can’t go on. 

He gives us shelter 

In the storms of life. 

When there’s no peace on earth, 

There is peace in Christ.

Amidst the troubles and contentions of this world we can find peace in Christ. He is the source of light and truth. As we try to live the way He lived, we receive strength and joy despite the calamities that may be going on around us.

- Elder Christensen

Pics

☆ Service at the food pantry

☆ Exchange with Elder Hoyal

☆ EJ!