Hellllllo

So the baptisms didn’t happen.

It was a crazy week.

I’ll talk about the baptisms briefly

We were hoping for three.

1 dropped us Monday afternoon.

1 moved back in with her boyfriend on Tuesday

1 got drunk Wednesday and pushed it back

So none happened in Bermuda. BUT! OSCAR and ABBY got baptized in BV!!! It was so good to go back and see everyone (this baptism was at night) I love them both.

Sam, Elder Wendt, Oscar, Abby, Elder Rushton

Sam, Oscar and Abby

Craig finished reading the Book of Mormon. He loves it. He wants to start reading it again now!

Zone conferences went wonderfully well! I love my topic and I love learning with these missionaries.

This week we have two more ZC and an MLC so it’ll be a good one.

WEIRD STUFF THIS WEEK

-We have a lot of grown men and women cry to us which is a weird experience.

-I got a letter this week from a girl in a past area which was super uncomfortable. Summary: "Hi, how are you? Write me back! Bye." O_o

-We contacted a couple. The man was drunk and tried to take off his pants. The woman showed us her tattoo that ran from her upper torso to her hip. We left. X_X

I can’t believe it's already June. Life is good here in Vegas. I keep getting hotter and hotter. I don’t have much else to say. 

I love you all

:)

Sam

ZONE CONFERENCE

Well. I've sat through a lot of these in my mission, but now it's my chance to run them.

This is such a turn around. I love this assignment but there are no breaks. Every week until the end of the transfer we have big things going on. This week two zone conferences and a temple trip with the new missionaries. Next week two zone conferences and an MLC plus all the ZTMS. Then two zone confernces the week after and the next week another training. It's going to be AWESOME!

We were hoping/planning on two baptisms this past week but they got postponed till this week. Now our goal is three and there is a good chance we will make it. 

I've got to tell y’all about my new favorite investigator, Craig. He's so funny. He is 56 and has studied with the jdubs for 20 years but he started reading the Book of Mormon and now he wants to get baptized. He came to church, he's halfway done with the book and we just met him last Sunday night. It's awesome. He knows the bible so well but he loves the Book of Mormon because it testifies so much of the Savior. It's been awesome to see him read with an open heart and receive a witness. I love teaching those with real intent.

Last Friday we got to do an hour-long Q&A session at a sisters conference. That was cool. Elder Sharp and I had mics and we just took questions from the audience. It was probably one of the scariest moments of my whole mission - so many women.

Sam at Sisters Conference

I went on an exchange with Elder Puga. He's awesome. It's cool to see how much he's grown. He was a junior companion when I was first his zone leader in Central. Now he's a zone leader! The 'rank' is not the growth, but it's indicative. He is still just as humble but he is now confident which has given him a lot of spiritual power. 

I hope rugby is going well. I wish I could get on the pitch. Go Blackhawks!

I got my 'trunky' packet today. All my going home information. I haven't read it yet. 
We found a lot of new investigators this week. Life is so good.

I love you all so much
Sam

Anthony's baptism on May 17, 2014

Sorry. I didn't mean to scare you!

Dear Family,

I love you all.
I feel like a chump not writing very much recently. I'm sorry!
Things are great here. We've hopefully got baptisms incoming and we're working hard. We found a new investigator the other day who said "The Book of Mormon is awesome. I'm going to read this as fast as I can. I can't wait to find out what happens next." Stuff like that is awesome.
Transfer week went well. We got to train lots of new missionaries and I loved it. I like training so much. And the new missionaries have so much faith and fire. 
I wish I could train missionaries for the rest of my life. It's invigorating. 
This work is true. I know it is. I finished the NT today. I love the Bible. I'm going on a diet. 
Life is good.
I love you all so much
Sam

Elder Slik, Sam, and Sister Banks (Rigdon's mom)

Last week's baptism with Elder Sharp