Best 1½ Years FOR My Life!

 I cannot believe this is my last email to yall! Thanks for your year and a half subscription to my missionary experiences! I am beyond grateful and blessed for this time i had the opportunity to gain a deeper and closer relationship and understanding of my Savior! Even more grateful for those I've seen accept the gospel and find joy! Most people say your mission is the best 1½ or 2 years of your life but there is so much growth and experiences I will have after my mission, it's not going to stop now.  That's why my mission is the best 1½ FOR my life! I have learned so many new habits about scripture study and prayer and how to apply the gospel of Jesus Christ. These are essential skills to endure to end and my mission has taught me how to use them. And the best part, each of these habits or skills bring me closer to Jesus Christ each time! 

This last week was amazing! We had a huge conference on Wednesday in Charleston, South Carolina! We had to wake up at 4:50am to drive there and we hit really bad traffic so we arrived barely on time. I learned so much from Elder and Sister Bowen! Sister Bowen shared how important the book of Mormon is to protect us from personal Apostasy or falling away. Spending time daily in the book of Mormon keeps your testimony strong and a testimony doesn't have a long shelf life. It needs constant nourishment! 

We were able to be apart of Dale's baptism interview! There are seven questions to this interview asked by an elder in our district to know that the missionaries did their job in teaching all of the principles someone needs to know and believe to be baptized! It was a wonderful experience! Dale was bearing testimony of question! At the end he told us, "God has you here for a reason, i am one of your reasons. Thank you, thank you! I am so grateful to be baptized tomorrow!" He got us all crying with that one. Dales baptism was the next day and it went smoothly! Besides the fact that the font was filling up during the whole beginning of the baptism no one turned the water off so it was overflowing a little bit. It worked out though because dale is tall, so he needed to extra water. They walked into the font and dale goes, "the water is COLD!" oopsies. All I have to say is we were not in charge of the font. Despite the hiccups though, it was a great service. Dale shared his testimony at the end and he said, "This baptism was great and all but what I really want to do is- and the missionaries know what I'm about to say [we did not know what he was going to say and we were scared what was coming next haha] what I really want to do is get to that temple!!" Wow, that was amazing to hear his strong testimony of the restored gospel and to hear that he's not ending with baptism, his goal is to go to the temple! 

We found more people to teach this week! That was a blessing! We went to visit the Evans family then went a little down the road (this is all in a heavily wooded forest btw) looking for a member. There was a guy who was outside and he let us know she had moved a few years ago. We kept talking and he asked us if we knew the Evans family. We just visited them before we went there! So crazy! 

We had crazy rainstorm and thunder yesterday and I learned why this area is called Pooler. It's because it's where all the water pools! Roads were flooded! We were in west Savannah and we kept getting road blocked by rivers of water and we couldn't get where we were trying to go! So crazy, we stayed safe though and didn't drive through super deep water. 

The end. See y'all on Sunday :) 

Please pray for 

Dale

Robbie

Willie

Kathy

Angel + fam

.... me to fly home safely 

Pictures 

Members from west Chatham surprised me

We got permission to go to downtown Savannah for my last Pday! 

Museum we saw downtown 

Flooded roads 

All my previous companions!