Another 2 Baptisms

We had 2 baptisms this Saturday.  Both were sweet. One, with Anthony, was pretty memorable. Anthony is impossible to explain. And I don't know anyone to compare him to. He's just a big awesome guy. A few days before the baptism, we told him he needed to pick someone to baptize him. So he took the 2 missionaries, Bishop Gray, and Brother Roesler, the Ward Mission Leader and told us all to pick a number. Most people have whoever has helped them the most baptize them,  or a good friend. But we did it by picking numbers. It ended up Brother Roesler baptized him and I helped... he's 300 pounds.

Elder Pearson, Anthony, Elder Evensen and Bro. Roesler

Shortly before the baptism the Bishop showed up with the biggest jumpsuit he could find,  because we believe in baptizing someone in all white. Well, he ripped the biggest jumpsuit we had. So, Bishop had to scramble around and find some tan pants and a big white shirt. It was epic. But he was baptized. And lifting him out of the water felt like nothing... we definitely  had some extra help besides Bro Roesler and I.

Anthony with his daughter and Bishop Gray and family

When I first got to the area we knocked on a door that someone had referred us to. A guy opened the door and invited us in. He'd been puffin the magic dragon, so the visit was completely ineffective and we decided not to waste any more time. As we walked into a lesson this week, the TV was on and the news was on the TV. It was showing the house we knocked on and said this guy, who we tried to teach, had been arrested for armed robbery. Kinda makes me wish we went by again.

Some of y'all might remember Ed.

Ed

He was in my last area. About the time I got transferred he moved to Brigham City. I was afraid he'd get lost in the mix, and the missionaries wouldn't be able to help him. But I just got a call from another missionary in the mission who told me they started teaching him and he wanted him to let me know. It's sweet!

Lately our area has been pretty slow. We haven't gotten anyone new to teach. So 2 weeks ago I fasted for the area. It was amazing the power that fasting has. This last week we've picked up 6 new investigators, 4 of them have have dates to prepare to be baptized, and we're teaching one tonight who will most likely set a date. It's been amazing. There have been so many different means of finding them, but the result has been the same. Amazing lessons with everyone feeling the spirit.

One of the lessons were with 2 little girls who barely even heard of Christ before. As we taught they felt the spirit for the first time in their lives and kept asking us what the feeling was. It was amazing to see them experience the love of Jesus for the first time. They are way excited to be baptized and have good support from their father.

That's all I have time for today. This week has been a great one and I can't wait to go back out and keep doing what I love doing.  Stay in touch, stay good. Love yall



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Elder Pearson

Utah, Ogden Mission