I received the cards from the primary kids and the school kids. I'm going to have to say that Jaimie's card was probably the best. Especially when it said "have a happy valentine day with your wife. PS.- I hope you make your wife happy." Ha. Good stuff. I heard about the Saints winning the Super Bowl. They aren't the "Aint's" any more. I received a letter from Brother Tucker a few weeks ago saying that Josh got his mission call, Chris and Sam are 18 now, Tyler Callens and Brady are now Priests. Man it's crazy how fast time goes by. And to top it all off I'm turning 20 next month. I'm so old. I think I'm ready to enter into retirement and receive my Social Security check every month. I'll have 20 years. Man.
I guess I'll update y'all with what's going on here. On Friday night we were able to have our 2 baptisms. We baptized them and then confirmed them there because we didn't have church on Sunday. Because it was Stake conference. When one of them got confirmed the Spirit was so strong. He told us he wants to serve a mission. So that was a pretty good experience. I'll send some pictures of that. Stake conference was a fun little experience. Saturday someone from the spanish branch asked us to translate his talk for him so that he could read it in english. So we translated the talk and gave it to him. Then during the adult session of stake conference when it was him and his wife's turn to give their talk/testimony. They decided to do it in spanish so we had to get up and translate it. And my companion so unselfishly volunteered me do to the one we didn't translate. So I translated it, thought everything was good until Sunday during the General session of conference. Another couple from the ward was giving a talk so the wife went and gave hers in English. Then the husband got up and tried English but I guess got nervous. And asked for some help. So once again my companion refused to go, so I went. So I got up there, and he started speaking Spanish. For like a minute. He didn't give a chance to translate for that minute and the people in the congregation were giggling. But after that time he gave me a little more chance to translate. So later that night we had dinner with President Kendall. The secound councilor in the stake presidency, and the person we live with. But as we were talking Sister Kendall said that when I was translating her daughter-in-law said "I didn't know that spanish translated into 'all y'all.'" Man these Utahns are relentless when it comes to stuff like that. Then people always comment on "yes ma'am/sir." Man. Well the work is going good here. We have 2 more baptisms this friday. That will bring the transfer total to 9. Then we have a marriage set up for the 14th, the day of love, and then they're getting baptized on the 20th with one of their sons. So hopefully that will bring the transfer total to 12. That's what we're going for. Things are still going pretty rough with my companion. It's hard because he won't let go of his pride. He's pretty prideful and self-righteous. But I'm trying to help him. The other day in Zone meeting the Zone leaders made an announcement that if somebody has a perscription from a doctor for coffee or something against the word of wisdom that they can still get baptized. That's the instructions from President Sonne. In the middle of the meeting my companion started challenging them and saying that's wrong. And so later that night they came over and talked to him. They were saying that we're working on becoming a Zion mission so he shouldn't pull others down and not support leaders, because we're working on building each other up. Then my companion said that this is changing the Word of Wisdom and that it's a way that Satan is trying to get power over us. It's frustrating. If it isn't what he thinks is right or if it's something he doesn't want to do he throws a temper tantrum. But I'm learning A LOT of patience. Which is good I guess. I only got 2 more weeks. I can do it! Well here are some pictures. The first one is us with the 2 people we baptized. The younger one is the one that wants to serve a mission. Next is one of the guy we baptized with his family. Next is the family with both people we baptized. The last one is me with my sweet durag that Tiffany sent. It's pretty sick. with the shirt she sent me. It's pretty sick.
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