Week 10

This week has been great! On Saturday we baptized a man named Freedom he is 24 years old. He has been living with a family that are members of the church. We meet him 4 weeks ago at church, we asked him if he was a member and he said no but he wanted to be. We set up a time to meet him and we invited him to be baptized and in that first lesson he accepted the invitation. I was the one who baptized him. While we were in the bathroom of the church changing he told me that he was thankful that I baptized him and that all his sins were washed away. Hearing that was so powerful because he can't speak English very well. It was so powerful to hear those words come out of his mouth!
We have 10 new investigators and a bunch of them are very promising so hopefully we can get them a baptism date. We had to drop one of our investigators because he is having some mental problems and was put into a mental hospital this week so that was a bummer. The gospel was helping him but I guess it was to much for him to handle. We are trying to get approval to go see him and possibly give him a blessing.
Church on Sunday was a little crazy. Our bishops brother died and so he wasn't at church. There isn't anyone here to keep the ward running, so luckily someone from the Stake was there to help it run. Sacrament started late because we were trying to figure everything out. We didn't have bread so me and my comp and another member of the ward quickly drove to his house to get some bread. As soon as we got back  they started sacrament meeting. The ward I am in isn't very organized and is a little frustrating.  I am really excited to skype home in a couple of weeks!
-Elder Hayden Rasmussen


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