Hi everybody!
This week has been crazy! And it seriously felt like one of the longest weeks ever. But it hasn't been going too bad given the circumstances. Enoch West is officially combined with Parowan for this whole transfer cycle (6 weeks). It's been a lot of back and forth and hectic stuff trying to manage both areas, but we're making it work. We taught a surprising amount of lessons this week, despite the chaos, and we've gotten it figured out how we'll balance our time between the areas. Wednesday and Saturday we'll be in Parowan. The rest of the week we'll be in Enoch West. Sundays will sort of alternate between areas, and as needed depending on speaking assignments and confirmations. So that's the plan. Now we need to make it work. We did surprisingly alright this week. Hopefully this week will also be good. We still need to reschedule with a bunch of people after the fiasco of the last couple weeks, so hopefully we can do that as well.
We had a baptism on Saturday! Adam got baptized! Yet another one who I was involved in finding and I got to be there for his baptism (I actually got to perform his baptism). Being in an area for over 7 months definitely has it's perks. His confirmation was Sunday, but guess what! He showed up late for his own confirmation! I guess they were just running late or something, and when the member of the bishopric got up and announced that there had been a baptism the day before and asked if he'd stand, he wasn't there! Thankfully he was still able to make it, and his confirmation ended up being a little later in the program. But he definitely made us all sweat a little bit!
On Saturday afternoon, we had the awesome opportunity to go down to St. George for a special missionary meeting with Elder M. Russell Ballard of the Quorum of The Twelve Apostles! It was awesome! We didn't get three hours with him like we did with Elder Bednar, but it was still really cool. He reminded us about how we got our mission assignments, that we were called by prophesy to the Utah St. George Mission. It's no accident that we're serving here. He talked about obedience to the commandments and the Mission Handbook. And he talked a lot about how we can be better teachers, and the importance of becoming better teachers. He said he wants us to become missionaries like Paul, and he talked about the trust that the Lord has in us. He gave us a little formula to help us: Be worthy, prepared, and excited. It was such a great meeting! And Elder Ballard is HILARIOUS!!! I had no idea how funny he can be! And to make it even better, his humor was 100% true doctrine. It's just how he said it was super "straight up" and super funny. He's awesome. It was such a privilege to be in a meeting with an Apostle of the Lord. I was in the front row again too,
so when he was speaking at the pulpit, he was literally right in front of me.
Well, that's about all for now. Have a fantastic week!
-Elder Oswald
Pictures 1 and 2: Adam's Baptism
Picture 3: Coming back from St. George after the meeting with Elder Ballard was really pretty. In this picture, in addition to showing some of the St. George landscape, it looks kind of like the mountain
in the background is floating in the clouds like Mount Olympus.
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