Conference is Coming!

Well everything here is going great. We weren't able to have our baptism on Saturday. The person that was supposed to get baptized ended up smoking 1 cigarette on Friday. So she wasn't able to get baptized. So that was a little disappointing. But we went to temple square with two of our investigators, Angelica and Silvia, and Angelica is preparing to be baptized this weekend. We're still hoping that Silvia will be baptized this weekend too. They're sisters so it would be pretty sweet to see them get baptized together. Then we talked with another kid who agreed to be baptized next weekend. He's had a pretty rough life. He's been in some gangs and stuff but he has a desire to change. So we're helping him with that.

Sunday was the first time that the Granger 2nd branch met together in the new chapel. It was kind of crazy. Nobody really knew where things were. But it was a good beginning. Everybody is pretty excited about it. It's tough for some of the members just because it's like splitting up family, but there will be more growth now. And more people will stay active because they'll have callings. One of the families I baptized last year was at church and told me they're going to be getting their temple recommend interviews done pretty soon and enter into the temple. I'm pretty excited about that. The Lopez family, who I baptized a year ago and sang to mom for her birthday, are in the middle of their temple prep classes and will be getting sealed in late May or early June. I'm hoping that they'll be able to do it in May. It's exciting to be able to see the families I baptized still active in the church and a little sad seeing the ones that aren't. Which I guess is the reason I'm here. To help more people come to Christ and to help those I baptized return.

I'm really excited for general conference this weekend. I can't wait. Tomorrow we're going to go do temple service again. It's crazy it'll be my last time. But it's all good. I only have tickets to the Sunday P.M. session of conference. So hopefully we'll be able to find some more tickets. We don't even have enough to give to investigators. But either way I'm excited for it.  I love this gospel and I love being a missionary in the work of the Lord. There's nothing better.