Crystil's Baptism

The week here has been really good. It was another really busy week preparing for Crystil's baptism. Crystil is awesome. She has taken the Gospel and has been living it and running with it 100%. At her baptism, when she came out of the water, she said, "Oh, wow!" and then she started to get really emotional because of how good she felt. It was a really unique experience. At the end of the baptism she bore her testimony and it was really powerful. She talked about how she was at the darkest point in her life when she started to talk with us, but then after two weeks of meeting with us she said that she started to feel a sunshine in her life that was hard to explain. It was a really powerful testimony and had an impact on a lot of people who were there. We have a stake temple day coming up in a couple of weeks, so she is going to go up to Portland for that to do baptisms for the dead. We are excited for her! She is also a great example for her family. She is excited to help them accept the gospel because she wants them to all feel how she is feeling. Her son, Anthony, will be baptized on the 7th of April, so we are extremely excited for that as well. 

Other than that, the week was really good. I was able to go on exchanges with the Zone Leaders this week. I was with my MTC companion, Elder Fisk! It has been so cool to see the way that he has changed over the past 19 months. He is an awesome missionary and has been a great example to me. We saw some cool miracles on the exchange. At one point, a lesson that we had set up on facebook was having to be pushed back, so we decided to go out and talk to people for the 15 minutes that we had. We walked in one direction and talked to a bunch of people. Then we saw a hispanic guy across the street and started talking to him. We were able to talk to him in our broken spanish for just long enough to see a guy walking past us. This guy is an investigator that the elders have been teaching recently and have not been able to make contact with him in a while. So we finished talking to this hispanic guy and ran down the street to chase down the other man! It was crazy that we were able to be there to see him and set up a time for the other elders to go back. That was pretty cool. 

I am excited for the upcoming week. On Wednesday, I get to go to Newberg for a District Leader Training. That will be a lot of fun!