Things this week went well. We had Anthony’s baptism, which was really good. He bore his testimony at the end and it meant a lot to his mom and sister. It was really good for his sister to be there and to feel the spirit there. It made her think more about being baptized and now she is working towards that. The baptism went really well overall! There was a good showing, especially from the youth in the ward and the young men’s leaders. We had interviews with President after the baptism. Those went well. It’s always good to be able to be with them and talk with them.

We had Zone Conference this week too, which was a lot of fun. We talked a lot about the Book of Mormon and why it’s important to use the Book of Mormon. It was actually really fun because at one point, I mentioned that Elder Patterson was really good at that, so President asked that Elder Patterson and I get up and role play it. Elder Patterson is serving in Redmond now So we were able to go up and do a role play together of using the Book of Mormon to someone we just met. That was fun! Elder Patterson also bore his final testimony at Zone Conference because next Zone conference will be a mission tour and he won’t have the opportunity to do that there. It was really crazy to see him do that. It was pretty emotional for me!

The week was good. We had an exchange as well, and during that exchange we had some good experiences. We saw one guy across the street, so we went over to talk with him and he didn’t really want to talk. He said he was in a hurry, so we walked fast with him until we could give him something. It was cool because the Lord led us straight to another guy who had met with the missionaries in the past and was willing to have us come back this next week.