Hal had a white Christmas! He was baptized Saturday! He was really nervous and didn't sleep a wink the night before his baptism or confirmation! It went perfectly though. We had an extra helper in the font because the baptizer couldn't pull him back up on his own. Hal bore his testimony afterwards about his theory of miracles, his spiritual prompting to donate crazy books to the church library, and the Spanish Inquisition. It wouldn't have been more "Hal" any other way. He was too nervous and self-conscious to get a picture before he was baptized so we have no pictures of him in white, only afterwards. It was a miracle we could even get that one! There were like 12 elders there who taught him in the past who came to support him. I don't know if I already told y'all but Hal calls me sister pinkie and he calls sister Kerr sister Bubbles because of our personalities =)
We had exchanges this week and I got to stay in our area and drive! Driving an automatic car felt really weird since I am so used to stick shift.
We had five investigators at church this week and a TON of less active members there as well!!! Even though there are three of us and we split up in sacrament meeting, there weren't enough of us to sit by all of them! Luckily we have some good members that we asked to friendship them.
I was reading in 2 Nephi 29 and thought about the Book of Mormon in a new way: When people reject the Book of Mormon because the Bible is enough for them, they are saying they already have an Oreo so they do not need any milk.
Love,
Sister Melina Lillie Jones
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