This week has been a week of miracles! You get to see miracles everyday as a missionary but this week was especially full of those moments when you realize that the Lord is in the details of His work! You already know but Sister Chamberlain and I have a goal to baptize every week this transfer and we knew when we set it that it would be hard but that if we had the faith and we worked diligently and obediently that the Lord would make it possible for this goal to be reached. Last week we were going to have an elderly man named Jesus be baptized but when we met with him on Tuesday he told us that he wasn't ready and needed to think about it more because he didn't think he could meet the "obligations". He's keeping all the commandments and has been to church over three times so we tried everything to reassure him that baptism is the right thing for him right now but he still said no soooooo Wednesday we went through and thought about all of the people that could get baptized- that had attended church enough and didn't have any big problems with the commandments and we went out and tried all of them and didn't have much luck. All of our leaders keep texting and calling us asking if we were going to have a baptism and we were like yes we just don't know who yet haha so Thursday we got up and wen were just like today is the day and we decided our best option was an 8 year old girl named Pamela. Her older brother is on a mission and he's the only member in the family but they all actively attend church. The parents can't be baptized yet because of marriage problems and they wanted Pamela to wait and be baptized with them. Anyways Thursday night we got our bishop to come out with us and went to their house and just started teaching about baptism and the importance and we were like we pray for your family all the time and we think that Pamela should be baptized. Then bishop invited her for the following Saturday and they were like uhhhh we will let you know and sister chamberlain and I were like how about this Saturday? And they were like ahh we have work were super busy and we were like what time do you get off and figured it out and she was baptized Saturday at 7:30 pm. It was so cool! All baptisms are awesome but the spirit was so strong at this one. I had to give the talk on baptism in Spanish ahhh it was good but I was nervous then sister chamberlain sang and it was so beautiful! Another huge miracle this week was our investigator Chris. He is from the hood haha he has had kind of a crazy past but we met him on the street and it turns out that his sister in law is in our ward. Anyways though he is a dream investigator!! He told us that he knows God sent us to him and he will do anything we tell him to. So instead of reading the Book of Mormon to find out if it's true he says he's reading it to learn what he believes it. It's crazy how prepared people are! His baptism is this Saturday hahahha he always tells us " you guys are my girls if someone messes with you they mess with me!" So good to know he's got our back!
Today we're at the Padres game at petco park! Wishing my baseball crew was here with me hahahha some lady outside gave us all free tickets and told us to pray for her then the lady that took our tickets was like mannn I'm feeling good vibes coming in.
Yesterday we had zone conference all day and talked a lot about how the Book of Mormon is the rod of iron and if we hold to it and get our investigators to hold to it we will all be able to stay on the path so I hope your all reading! Special Father's Day shout out to my fellow friend!!! I LOVE YOU DAD! I wish I could call but I hope that you have an amazing day and know that your always in my thoughts and prayers!
Also shout out to the love birds! I'm sad I won't be at the wedding but I hope that you know I'm exited for you both and love you so so much!!!! Finally getting my first sister yayyyy kar your going to be the most beautiful bride!
Love you all xoxo hermana koelliker
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