Climbing Fourteeners & Silver Linings (Week 37)

Conquering the highest peak in Florida -- their only 14'er.
That is, 14 feet above sea level!

 Hello,

Cole was baptized on Saturday!  When he came up from the water he had a huge smile.  It was so awesome.  He also had a great smile when he was confirmed on Sunday.

Brother Ramos baptized him.  He and his wife are his primary teachers.  Sister Ramos wasn't able to come, which was too bad.  However, Marit Wyatt was able to come.  She rides the same bus to school as Cole.  When she heard he was getting baptized, she really wanted to come.  Because Sister Ramos wasn't able to come and give the talk, we asked Marit to give her testimony on baptism.  We also shared a few thoughts.  It was good, since Sister Wyatt also came, because Marit was speaking.  Also Sister Hiatt and her family came.  She was the missionary that first started helping Mira and Cole.  She is home now, and she just happened to be in Florida with her family.

When we went to the Bishop's house for dinner, their six-year-old son heard rockamole instead of guacamole.  He then sang "Icecream, icecream, rockamole."  He then asked if I knew that song.  He kept singing it.  It was so funny.

Essix is doing great.  She still needs to recover.  I am not sure what to do other than pray.  I keep praying.  I know she will recover in the Lord's time.

One day this week, I prayed during the whole time of personal study.  Elder Clarke suggested it.  It was great.  We can always pray.

Thanks everyone who is emailing me.  I really appreciate it.  It is nice to know what is going on in your lives.

Miracle: We knocked on a door to find a former investigator.  She no longer lived there, but Nate and Conor did.  They are super awesome.

We talked with them about families and did a quick restoration overview.  They said we could come back tonight.  The day we found them our appointments canceled on us.  Miracles always seem to happen when our appointments cancel. I think God knows someone else needs us then, so he causes things to come up in the other people's lives.

That is how we found Essix.  Someone canceled, so we went to go see Abeke, which led to Essix.

✨Sister Aurora Pack

Exhausted after reaching the summit!

P.S. We decided that this is the tallest hill in Florida (not really, but we like to pretend, since Florida is so flat).  The first picture is me exhausted from climbing it. ;) The second picture is me standing triumphant since I conquered the hill.  It was fun to pretend that it took a lot of effort.