Happy Thanksgiving

Well I know I haven't written a letter in the last two weeks but everything is going well! The week prior to thanksgiving wasn't all that exciting but it was still a full week of teaching! The teaching appointments are starting to slow down a lot more because of winter. I am used to having an appointment every hour of the day but now it isn't that crazy. We actually have time to do some finding which I mean is okay. I have to say I would much rather be having appointments all day and staying busy that way but this is also chill. I get to experience what the rest of my mission goes through and what their daily schedule is. We used to just find people and fill up our calendar and then come back and teach them a lesson then it kind of goes dead. Now we are trying to focus on our more solid investigators. We still have five people on date so that is great. Our most promising family is a family of three and they are from Ethiopia. Their names are Eshet who is the dad, Tsedi who is the mom and Elroe who is the son. They are probably the nicest people I have ever met. Every time that we go over there they always want to feed us something. Whether it is good or bad... there has been both let me tell yuh. We are hoping to get them baptized before the end of the year. So hopefully everything goes through and they get baptized!

We had a good thanksgiving! We went over to a members home and they fed us all of the Thanksgiving usual’s. They had some pretty solid apple pie. That was by far the best part. But it was good and we didn’t have to go out that day as it was our P-day so we just hung out at our apartment and relaxed. It was some very needed rest. 

This past Saturday was quite an event. We had another baptism which was exciting but it was very interesting... so to start off the people getting baptized were two little girls, ages 9 and 10. Let me preface this story with the fact that they are deathly afraid of water. But this was not told to us. Also me and my comp were not the ones baptizing. There 16 year old uncle was the one that wanted to baptize them. So that's what happened. The older sister went in to get baptized first. When the uncle dunked her she got water all up in her nose and when she came up she began to cry. Also, her feet popped up so she had to do it again. She was crying though.. but finally after the third try they got her baptized. Then the younger sister got in and was already scared to begin with because she saw her older sister crying. Anyway the uncle tried to dunk her and she also came up crying and didn’t get under all of the way. To make a long story short. It took 7 times to get the little sister baptized. It was a baptism I will never forget haha. It overall took about three hours! It was pretty crazy. But they got baptized so that was awesome!

Other than that not much else has happened just doing the lords work out here in Indiana! Love it and wouldn't want to be anywhere else! Love you all and hope you have a good week!

SEND IT FOR THE LORD

Elder Hilburn

 

This investigator and Elder Hilburn have a lot of the same hobby's in common

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