Hey Everyone!
Man oh man this week was eventful. We had a 5 ward combined baptism, and I got transferred!! Lets take a look at how it all went down.
Going into this week we thought it would be a regular week but it definitely was a bit different! I'll skip some of the things that happened earlier in the week and talk about the fun stuff.
The whole week we were looking for Friday. Friday was the day that we received our Transfer News. The whole day was pretty crazy and hectic. It reached to 7pm and our District Leader called us with the transfer news. I have been assigned to be an Office Elder. I now live in the Mission Home in FreeTown. I have 3 companions. Elder Dunn, Elder Hansen and Elder McCracken. We have 4 Office Elders because next month, President Clawson is going home and President Harper is coming. We have 4 Elders because of the big projects going on before that switch. There is a lot of work to be done and we are the ones to do it! It is a lot of work but it is a good time.
The next day on Saturday we had a Baptism. The day before on Friday, our Bishop called us at 8 o'clock am and told us to go and check the water in the baptismal font. We agreed to go and went to our church at about 11 o'clock. We opened the baptismal font to find very dirty brown water. You couldn't even see the bottom of the font! So we told Him we could not baptize there and then spent the whole day trying to find a baptismal font to go to. We went to 4 other missionary companionship's and came to find out that they did not have any water and were planning to do baptisms the next day as well. So we searched the whole day and finally found a chapel at 6pm! We had 5 wards at one chapel! We then scrambled around till 9 o'clock to tell all the investigators and members. We then baptized 20 people the next day! All turned out alright, but it was quite an experience!
Man oh man this week was eventful. We had a 5 ward combined baptism, and I got transferred!! Lets take a look at how it all went down.
Going into this week we thought it would be a regular week but it definitely was a bit different! I'll skip some of the things that happened earlier in the week and talk about the fun stuff.
The whole week we were looking for Friday. Friday was the day that we received our Transfer News. The whole day was pretty crazy and hectic. It reached to 7pm and our District Leader called us with the transfer news. I have been assigned to be an Office Elder. I now live in the Mission Home in FreeTown. I have 3 companions. Elder Dunn, Elder Hansen and Elder McCracken. We have 4 Office Elders because next month, President Clawson is going home and President Harper is coming. We have 4 Elders because of the big projects going on before that switch. There is a lot of work to be done and we are the ones to do it! It is a lot of work but it is a good time.
The next day on Saturday we had a Baptism. The day before on Friday, our Bishop called us at 8 o'clock am and told us to go and check the water in the baptismal font. We agreed to go and went to our church at about 11 o'clock. We opened the baptismal font to find very dirty brown water. You couldn't even see the bottom of the font! So we told Him we could not baptize there and then spent the whole day trying to find a baptismal font to go to. We went to 4 other missionary companionship's and came to find out that they did not have any water and were planning to do baptisms the next day as well. So we searched the whole day and finally found a chapel at 6pm! We had 5 wards at one chapel! We then scrambled around till 9 o'clock to tell all the investigators and members. We then baptized 20 people the next day! All turned out alright, but it was quite an experience!
Overall, a great week. I am excited for the new experience and work load. It will be tons of work, for example, we started at 7am today and will stop at 9pm!! Wish me luck and send some prayers for me!
-Elder Morgan
-Elder Morgan
It is so great to read your letters.
ReplyDeleteEvery mossion president hopes for a missionary like and your companions-
Elder Morgan,
ReplyDeleteThanks for sharing your missionary experiences with us all. It's fun to get some insight about how you spend your days... and this is so awesome to help our boys develop of realistic sense of what a mission might entail for them. More than anything though, it's a great way to get them excited about the unique opportunity to serve!