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The Work of the Savior

Date: December 01, 2008
Area: Morgantown, Kentucky
Companion: Elder Paddock

 

 Hello Family,

Hope this finds you all doing well. It's been a pretty crazy week. I don't have much time left on the library, so I'll start with the biggest news and work my way down:

WE HAD TWO BAPTISMS YESTERDAY!!!!! Buddy Coin and Michale Andricks were both baptized and confirmed. Monday night we got a call from the Zone Leaders (Elder Davidson is now my Zone Leader. He's from Mt. View. Pretty Sweet :D) telling us that President wants us to find someone to be baptized on Saturday. We'll we didn't think much of it because we had no one really in the works that would be ready. Buddy was going to be at his girlfriends house all weekend and he was our only chance. So we just went on with regular life in good ol' Morgantown until Saturday night. We got a call from President Hutchings telling us, well, commanding us to go and find someone to be baptized on Sunday. He said don't even pray or do anything, just go and find and he'd do all the praying! So we got off the phone and had the impression to go to Buddy's house, cause we felt he'd be home. So we sprinted all the way across town, praying he'd be home. We show up on his doorstep, knock on the door and he actually opens it! So right then and there, we're like "Buddy, the Lord wants you to be baptized and he wants you to do it tomorrow" and he's just like "OK. I can do that". IT WAS SWEET! So we went inside, did a bit of talking with him to get him ready for Sunday. We then got the impression to run over to the Andricks house, who is a single less-active disfellowshipped lady with 6 kids that we visit every Monday to do a FHE with. She has a son that's 9 and wasn't ever baptized, so we got the impression to also ask him. When we got to Sister Andrick's house, I just straight up told her that Michael needed to be baptized and that now was the time. She was way skeptical, but I told her we'd take care of it all. She finally said yes! Both came to church the next day and both were baptized! I did the baptism and Elder Paddock did the confirmation. The whole branch was kind of shocked. I think they feel that we rushed these people, but we got the impression and were told to go and find, so I don't really care what they're thinking. But the mission got it's goal for 70 baptisms in the month of November! December our goal is 90. We'll see if it happens.

So it was a crazy Sunday trying to run all over the place to get a service prepared for them. But we got it done. We also got transfer information. Elder Paddock and I are staying the same and staying here in Morgantown. So I'll be here until after Christmas. Oh goody! But we have some plans to be able to get to working over in the other branches more.

Today it's suppose to snow! I'm excited! I'll be stoked when it starts sticking, but they say that it rarely happens. We're suppose to go to Bowling Green today for P-day, we'll see if they close the roads or not. Hopefully not.

Well, I have to get going cause my time is up. Love you all, hope all is well. Life is good!

Love,

Elder Anderson

 

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