Baptism!

Hey everyone!

So guess what! I baptized someone on Sunday! It wasn't my investigator (It was the Sister's) but it was still awesome! He is a 10 year old who's family is semi less-active. Super cool people though. The kid's mom gave the baptism talk, and it was one of the best talks on baptism that I've heard. This is the first time I've baptized someone on my mission, so it was a really cool experience. I even only had to dunk him once, so that made it even better. :)

In other news, we had a sweet Zone Conference this week where President gave an awesome instruction on repentance. It wasn't to rebuke us or anything, but to help us and those we teach become better, more converted people. Part of what he said was that just because we stop doing the sin, doesn't mean that we repented, it just means that by definition we've stopped doing that sin. But true repentance means more than that.

So one of the less-actives that we've been working with was telling us about an dairy that sells ice-cream, so after teaching him one day, we decided to stop by and try some. Turns out that there was a super cute girl working there that asked us where we were from, so we were able to talk to her about what we do for like 10 minutes and then give her a card with the link for the He Is The Gift video on it. It was like the most success we've had with contacting a random person in a while. We've been doing a lot with the Christmas Initiative (#ShareTheGift) in our finding efforts, and we've been seeing success with it! We've found some sweet potential investigators this week, so that was really exciting! 

The Stake did a cool "One Night in Bethlehem" event at one of the chapels. It was supposed to be a missionary geared event to help people feel the true Spirit of Christmas and also to help people see that we really are Christians. It went on Friday and Saturday night, and between the two nights, something like 1800 people went through the event. Crazy!! It was a really cool event though, and I saw a lot of people from the Clarkston Ward, so that was cool too. 

Anyways, thanks for reading!

~Elder Roderer