This has been a very good week. Our ward had a Halloween trunk-or-treat and chili cook off, which was super fun. Sister Khumaryan and I didn't hand out candy for the kids, but we handed out pass along cards with pictures of Jesus on them. Jesus is much better than candy!!
This weekend was also Stake Conference, which was really great. On Halloween, missionaries are usually sent home early so that they are not outside during trick-or-treating, but because there was the adult session of stake conference that evening, we got to go to that instead! There was also a session on Sunday morning.
(While going to Stake Conference was great, it was actually kind of annoying as a missionary because whenever we would invite people to church, we had to explain when and where church usually is, but then tell them that we wouldn't have normal church this week, and then try to explain why and what a Stake is, and it was just annoying and probably really confusing for people.)
As missionaries, we knock on a lot of random doors. I honestly have felt up until this week that this is a complete waste of time. Well, not anymore. This past week, within the space of half an hour, we found not one, but two new investigators on the same street while tracting. Both of them have baptismal dates and we will be going back to teach them this week! The Lord really is preparing people for the Gospel, it is just a matter of finding them!
We are teaching a 9 year old boy whose family are members, but because they didn't have him baptized when he was 8 he will now be considered a "convert baptism." We have been teaching him for several weeks, but his family finally decided on a baptismal date. November 28th!! So excited for him!! He is scared of water, so next Saturday we are going to take him to someone else's baptism so he will know what to expect and won't be scared for his own baptism.
Love you all! Hope everyone had a great Halloween. Now we have Thanksgiving to look forward to!!
Sister Daelemans
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