Towed Car and Baptisms

Dear Associates,

This week has been... whatever.  My companion and I will both be transferred this Wednesday, but we're just moving to West Knoxville.  So it's just back across the river for me.  After this coming transfer, I will have been in Knoxville proper for a year.  Pretty crazy, huh?

One funny story this week was that the assistants to the president stayed over at our apartment one night last week.  Our apartment complex requires your car to be registered and have a parking sticker though, so their van was towed in the middle of the night.  We woke up that morning and one of the assistants was like "Dude, where's my car?"  It was pretty funny.  So we just had to go search for the towing company and get that back.

Okay, one other crazy thing is that we went to Sevierville to conduct some baptismal interviews for a family that was going to be baptized there.  Well, the person that I was assigned to interview was not really planning to be baptized so our interview took like an hour and 20 minutes and I shouldn't have even done it but it was just a really crazy day... Anyway, on Saturday, we went to the baptismal service for her mother and sister and it was a just a really spiritual meeting (Myself and Elder Davis were asked to present the message of the Restoration and we did so while focusing on the importance of the family and the mother bore a really powerful testimony after the ordinance).  Afterward, the girl that I had interviewed that was unsure about being baptized asked for another interview and the rest of the family ended up getting baptized the next day.  So the whole family was baptized this weekend!  Pretty cool stuff.

Things work out.  Just do your best and trust that the Lord will fix everything that you mess up.  That's the spiritual thought/moral of that story for this week.

It's just going to be a really busy week.  We have to prepare for a Stake Correlation Meeting, plan a District Leader Training Meeting and a Zone Training meeting, and give talks in sacrament meeting.  Pray that I don't just blow it all off.

Love
Elder Grabinger