Well, regarding transfers, both Elder Robertson and I stay! There were a lot of really interesting developments this transfer though, including that my trainer (and zone leader for the past few transfers), Elder Liechty, was called to serve in an English ward as one of the APs! Now there's a scary thought, switching from Spanish to English! But he's someone I know that will do well there.
President and Sister Weaver also announced that for next P-day (Halloween), we're not proselyting at all in the evening and instead we're going to have a Halloween 'activity,' not a party (Direct quote from President Weaver: "An activity is still an activity, which has a very broad meaning.") with our respective zones, which will include watching a movie that will be approved by him and his wife. Apparently last year there were non-missionaries that dressed up as missionaries and did some rather unsavory things and President Bowen got called, so President wants to be able to say 'Nope, those aren't our missionaries; ours are all accounted for.'
So regarding the miracles and awesomeness of last transfer, this past week, Mari didn't smoke at all. We were sending her daily messages and scriptures through texting and we knew that God was preparing her for baptism. So on Thursday we had a lesson with her, at the beginning of which she expressed how stressed she was and why she didn't want to get baptized. We ended up sharing D&C 122 and JSH with her about opposition, and the Spirit just did some work on her. We extended the commitment and she committed to be baptized on Saturday!!!!!
It was awesome, though we learned when she was confirmed in Sacrament that we had misunderstood and we were actually missing part of her name, which made Sunday one of the most stressful days of my life. We ended up rebaptizing and confirming her after Tacoma's baptism that finished at 4:55, and before the Samoan's baptism that began at 5! But we got it done, and I'm just so grateful for the help we had in reaching our baptism goal of 4 for this transfer. When we prayed at the beginning of the transfer, 4 seemed like a really big number, but it just felt right. It was a joy to see how happy Mari was when it was all said and done.
The hard part is now that we've either dropped or baptized our entire teaching pool. So we literally have 0 solid nonmembers that we're teaching. Just pray that we find them or that they find us.
I love you all and hope you have a fantastic week!
Love,
Greg
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