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J. was baptized this weekend.  It was wonderful -- she is so happy!  B. was also baptized in my last area.  What a birthday present! 

Update on investigators:

We reviewed the baptismal interview questions with J. on Monday, watched Joseph Smith: Prophet of the Restoration on Tuesday, and she had her baptismal interview with Elder S. on Wednesday.  The video was wonderful; the Spirit was so strong.  The hardest thing was teaching S. (J.'s daughter) what was going on.  She couldn't understand why the saints kept getting kicked out, and why people hated Joseph Smith so much.  It was a great teaching opportunity, though. J. was so touched that when she closed our lesson with a prayer, she couldn't finish; Ma. had to finish it for her.

We had an appointment with Mi. and a member on Tuesday, but we had zone conference and were running late. We had the member, Brother H., go without us and they had a great discussion.  Mi. and brother H. really get along really well.  It was a huge step for Mi.  Brother H. was on cloud nine, too.  He is loving sharing what he has learned.  Mi. also came to J.'s baptism, which was nice.  He seemed to enjoy it.  On Sunday something funny happened.  We honestly haven't been able to visit Mi. very much the past couple of weeks -- not on purpose, of course.  So he came up to us at church on Sunday and said that he's pretty open this week except for Wednesday, and when would we like to meet with him?  Now look who's setting up appointments at church! :)

L. is our newest investigator.  He is currently dating one of the young women in the ward.  She came bounding up to us at church and told us that she and her boyfriend had had a conversation about the gospel, and that he wants to learn more!  She was ecstatic.  She set up an appointment with us, then came back later to tell us that he's coming and is excited to meet us.  The meeting went well.  He's excited to read the Book of Mormon and we're meeting with him again on Thursday!

I mentioned earlier that we had zone conference this week.  Guess who won the clean car award AND got celestial planner awards!!  This was the first time they've given awards for planners -- I'm sure glad mine was in good shape!

Serve Fest was this weekend, too.  It was awesome!  A bunch of churches got together and cleaned up downtown.  I ended up scraping and repainting a fence and fire escape with a bunch of other people.  P.S. There is no good place to sit while painting a fire escape -- my thighs are super sore!  We were also painting the escape black, so a lot of the people at the baptism had black smudges all over them from Serve Fest.

One other story: I had a crazy allergic reaction on Wednesday.  It had to have been something I ate because I had it all over my body.  They were little boil-hivy things that got so big that they eventually became one giant boil-hivy thing, all up both my arms, on my tummy and behind my knees.  There is an anesthesiologist in the ward who ran to the hospital and got some steroid stuff and gave me a shot, and I was definitely on a lot of Benadryal for a while -- it took two days to clear up!  I still don't know what it was, but I definitely don't want to eat it again!

Transfers are this week!  Pray that the transfer angel passes us by!  I love you all!