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Mother's Day Skype

This week was a lot of fun, in part because I was able to talk to my family for mother's day, which was great and uplifting thing. I love getting to see some of the changes that go one in my little brothers and sisters. The day before that was also fantastic, one of the highlights of the week by far. One of my companions, the one who comes from Denmark, served in a small ville called Annecy about a year ago, and when he was there, him and his companion found a man who was open and willing to learn, and already knew quite a bit about the church before having spoken with the missionaries. Because of communication problems, and a couple other small things, they lost contact with him, and were unable to continue teaching him. However, a year later, the Elders in Annecy right now contacted us and told us how this man had refound them, and had become a fantastic progressing ami, and was going to be baptized, and had asked that my companion and his old comp be there as well. His old comp was already back in the United States, but because we had some supplies and errands to take care of in a ville not too far away from Annecy, President Roney gave us special permission to be able to go to this baptism.


It was a wonderful experience, really cool to see how touched my companion was, how happy and joyous the man who got baptized was after the ceremony. It didn't hurt that for us bystanders, everyone was happy, because the baptism took place in the lake around which the ville is situated. Annecy is known throughout the mission as one of the prettiest villes as well, partially thanks to this lake, so everyone I think was in a little awe at how beautiful it was. The baptism was wonderful, and the rest of that weekend went well too, ending in my Skype with my family, so all was great. This week itself was nothing too special, aside from a crisis we had with all the cell phone lines in Switzerland shutting down randomly. We are still trying to figure out the problem with the company, but thankfully most of the lines are back up and running again. All is well here in Lyon, my companion had a haircut today, and the best part of it was because he likes his hair a lot, we went to a coiffure, and I spent about 45 minutes to an hour talking to one of the people in there about our church and what we were doing there, so it was well worth the time, even though it took a little while. I love getting to be a missionary, we talked to a man last night on the subway system, and even though he wasn't interested to learn more, he really thanked us because we had helped him understand a lot more about who we were, and why we were there. It's things like that which make me happy to be here and enthusiastic about being a missionary.