Ordinances

6 July 2015

Well, this week has been hard. I'm going through a period of growth right now, and it hurts, but it's just growing pains, right? :) Mostly it has to deal with over-scheduling. It's very stressful, I don't recommend it. What happens is that I'll say to a person, "Yeah, we'll see you Wednesday at 7!" and then to another person I'll say, "Yeah! We'll see you at 7 on Wednesday!" And then my sweet companion Hna. Peabody or the Holy Ghost will remind me we already scheduled something for Wednesday at 7 with the first person. Then I have to go back to person #2 and explain that we already have an appointment, can we reschedule?.........Merg. It's frustrating, but oh, well. It'll all work out.

We met the Huntsmans this week! President and Sister Huntsman have 8 kids. 5 of which are still living at home. President Huntsman is a soft-spoken, small person, but he's great. We love him. Hna. Peabody and I talked to a newer sister who came out on her mission a week ago and we asked her her opinion about President Huntsman. She said, "I love him! I don't really know much of anything about President Riggs, 'cause I only knew him for a week, but President Huntsman is going to be great!" So, all around, we're all excited. :)

We got our TIWI fixed! Turns out the problem was that it was falling off the window! One of the glue dots was loose, so the technician took it off and glued it back on again, and then Elder Lowe, the fleet manager, asked us to take it for a spin. It took us to reset it before it worked properly again, but it works now!

We taught the Young Women's class yesterday! All about ordinances. So, we started off with "What's the difference between an ordinance and a covenant?" Then we listed off all the ordinances, identified the saving ordinances, and did a little practice-teach with the girls where they explained to a friend why they needed to be baptized/needed to be rebaptized. I told them there are three things baptism needs to have in order to be acceptable before God: the proper authority, the age of accountability, and it has to be by immersion. They thought that was really cool.

I have come up with an ambitious Spanish goal. I counted, and to go through one of the books I wanted to finish, about Spanish, it has 39ish grammar principles that I want to go over before I leave, and I had a little less than 12 weeks when I calculated this. So, the ambitious Spanish goal is to cover 1 grammar principle every 1 or 2 days until the Monday before my release. I'm doing really well, so far. Granted, it's only been the first few days, but it makes me excited!

This next week, there's a baptism in the ward. They asked me to play piano for it, so we'll be going and inviting everyone to come. It'll be good.