ANOTHER BELL BAPTISM

Ok so Friday we had to go to Bentonville for the day, and I got to do an exchange all day with my trainer (Sister King)!! Knocking doors in Bentonville VS Springfield is sooo different. People in Springfield are a lot more humble, but way less normal haha.

We knocked on this one house in B-Ville and this is how the convo went:
HER: "did you not see the no soliciting sign?" 
ME: "we aren't selling anything" 
HER: "you're selling God!"
ME: ".... for FREE!!!"
HER: "raging atheist here" 
*slams the door*

Because we went to Bentonville on Friday, I finesse'd getting to stay overnight in Branson and go to John's baptism in the morning!! It was so special!! I just know I met John in the premortal life and promised him I'd find him and share the gospel with him, so it was cool being able to watch him be baptized. He came out of the water and just said "wow". You could tell how truly happy he was :) 

It has been COLD. And is supposed to get even colder this week. It's kind of my favorite time to get out and find though because people will let you in a lot more and you get to have some cool conversations!! 

We are teaching this guy named Willie and he is the best!! He is from Kenya! We gave him some book of mormon reading homework and he read it and at our lesson he had annotated his scriptures and had so many good questions for us. He said reading the book of mormon was "incredible and uplifting" and it made him "feel strong". LOVE IT!

That's all for now... I love you all and hope you have an amazing week! 💙

PICTURES:

John's Baptism!!

Lessons with Willie!

crepes paulette

Sister King!

knocking in the snow!

p day at Buc-ee's!







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