May 20

Hey!!!

The week has finally come.... Krystal is leaving!! The world will never be the same!!!

We had a really awesome week here. There were so many things that happened that I will just have to do a day by day....

Monday- District P-day  Bowling

Tuesday- We worked SO hard and got so much done. It was amazing!

Wednesday- We had Zone Meeting (Like district meeting but as a zone and yes it is different then zone conference) It was really good and we had a lot of good training on the power of the atonement: 

1st- Though the power of the Atonement we can be cleansed from sin

2nd- Through the power of the Atonement we can be endowed with power from on high (I gave this one)

3rd- Thought the power of the Atonement we can qualify for eternal life. 

Then after that most of the zone had interview with President Morby... Not me but my companion did. So we were there for a while. After all of those interviews President interviewed Leatha for baptism. Leatha said that it was a wonderful interview and she was ready for baptism.

Thursday- We went out to Leatha's house for the first time. It was amazing and she was so happy to have us out there. She actually doesn't live in our ward but was baptized there because of all the fellowship so she lives about 45 minutes outside of our area but it is within our district. 

Friday- I had leadership training in Tualatin most of the day. It was awesome! President is really trying to keep everyone excited and not worried about the mission split. It was a great meeting and I really left there excited. Plus I got to come back to Tualatin. 

Saturday- Leatha got baptized!!!!! It started of really rocky... All morning I kept getting the thought what would happen if the font overflowed.... Keep in mind that we were not in charge of filling the font. Well we got to the church one hour before the baptism and we were the only ones there. I heard the water still running so I took my keys and unlocked the door took one step in with out turning on the lights... and there was water on the floor. So we ran to the other side got it unlocked and shut off the water. I quickly took off my shoes and socks and rolled up my pants and started to mop up the floor. All right problem solved. The water level was going down because of the over flow drain, good to go. Well we were waiting for everyone to show up and we were wondering why our baptism program hadn't shown up yet. Well there was a miss communication and we were supposed to go get it on our way to the church. So 15 minutes before it was supposed to start we are running out of the church hop in the car and fly to go and get it (I only got one driving violation on the trip). All right we are back at the church. The person performing the baptism still isn't there and it is 12... Ok picture time... Oh wait I didn't grab my camera! Anyway all things worked out and once the prayer was said the spirit just filled the room... It was such an awesome moment! That evening we went to the adult session of Stake Conference and it was awesome! We has Elder Falibella of the 70 there. He was the one that spoke in conference on Sunday about shaking hands and getting the money to make it home. It was really good.

Sunday- Stake Conference, once again awesome. Right after stake conference President Morby grabbed all of us missionaries and pulled us into the Relief Society room for a quick meeting. It was a very somber and basically depressing meeting. He talked about how all of those areas were going to be in a new mission and under a new mission president. It was so sad and when he asked Sister Morby if she had anything that she wanted to say she covered her face with both of her hands and just cried. It was so sad. Then Sunday night we went to the temple with Don and Leatha for a Recent Convert Fireside at the Visitors Center put on by the Mission Presidency. They really enjoyed that. So all in all it was a really great week! 

Thanks for all that you do for me! I love you all!!!!

Dustin