Volunteered at Retirement Home and Teaching

April 3
On Tuesday, we had exchanges with the Sisters in Nanaimo. It was tons of fun! Sister Huckabee and I volunteered at a super fancy retirement home and decorated Easter eggs with them.

We did all sorts of fun things and tried some new things out as well, like store contacting at Superstore. When we were done we decided we had to buy SOMETHING so we bought one of those superstore $10 bags of mini pizza pops and had some of those for supper as a treat. 

We decided to do one more loop around a building instead of heading to the next place, and we ended up getting a return appointment with a woman that we talked to there.
On Wednesday we had our last district meeting as a district.. Photo on left.

We had an appointment with a girl we had met, but we got a little lost getting to the place and we were a little late getting up there and when we got there she wasn't there! We actually found a couple friends of hers, who called her at let her know that we had come. And she came back! We ended up having her lesson outside because it was a beautiful sunny day. And that lesson was so, so spiritual. She already has such a strong testimony of Jesus Christ. 

We taught the Gospel of Jesus Christ as our first lesson, and committed her to be baptised!  She is SO EXCITED and SO prepared by God! She was so excited that we had found her- she loves to talk about Christ and do her best to be like HIM but nobody ever actually wanted to talk to her about that before we came. Also, she later came to General conference and we had another lesson with her yesterday, in which she video called her parents so that we could meet!

 

Baptism

March 26
So! We had a baptized!! AYYYYY!! It's so exciting!! We are supposed to have daily contact with our investigators, especially in the week leading up to their baptism, but that was extremely hard because she works all day and often doesn't get home until after we are supposed to be home. So we did fun little things to change things up (as in, not just a "Hi, how are you" text every day) and one of those things was a fruit basket! We just got a small assortment of fruits and a little cheap Easter basket and a card and dropped it off on her doorstep at the end of the day! She loved it. Her neighbours told her that they saw us do it, and thought it quite funny that two teenagers would do such kind acts for her. I uploaded a couple of pictures of it!

The baptism itself went without a hitch! Her sister was visiting from New Brunswick and her son came as well! It was SUPER AWESOME and she's so happy! Not only that, another lady who I got to be there for her baptism, is very good friends with her. I pointed out that their first temple trip will be at the same time (the ward has planned one for everyone, so they can carpool and whatnot), and they both got so excited and gave each other a huge hug! Those two are amazing.

They'll both ADORE the temple, and it's amazing that they get to experience it for the first time together! It's so exciting!! I am so blessed to be able to be here for both of their baptisms. I can't even take any of the credit! God prepared them, they both opened up their hearts and were willing to learn, and the spirit testified to both of them. All we really do as missionaries is invite the spirit, teach the basic doctrine, and figure out all of the tiny details leading up to the ordinance itself. It's really cool to see how we are just messengers that are here to help God's work moving forward.


Sister Bawden have been trying out different and creative ways to find people to teach, and it's been lots of fun! We roleplay each new idea a few times before we do it, and it's really easy to figure out small mistakes and kinks in the method with her because she is very supportive and we both take criticism well.

We have figured out how to both work hard and have fun at the same time, and it makes everything a little bit easier, a little more fun, and a little bit brighter!