It pains me to read
about your 80-90 degree temperatures this week. It snowed here with
temperatures 30-40. Yeah, snowed on Halloween, which is funny because lots of
natives here claim it's never snowed so early before. We didn't do that much
for Halloween, though. We had to report back to the apartment by 7:00 so we
just goofed off in our apartment. Oh, but we did have something called Elder's
Conference that day! It was the first of its nature, which I got to be apart of,
which was pretty cool.
The baptism was awesome!
I'll need to attach some photos in another email. A.C. did great. The fact that
this was my first time baptizing I don't think really made her too nervous. She
always asked "you're not going to drown me, are you Elder
Montgomery?" And I would say "only if you don't put up a
fight!", lovingly, of course. Haha just kidding :) I honestly had to dunk
her three times, which wasn't really embarrassing because the font water level
was sooooo low. It was barely above my knees. That's my excuse, anyway. So, for
the record, let me explain why I screwed up the first two times. I omitted
"of" in the ending part: "and 'of' the Holy Ghost". Her
knee came up the second time. She's extra clean, though :)
Hey so we also did
something really, really dumb last Monday. You might be disappointed in me, but
that's okay because the atonement covers everything - even my lack of wisdom.
So my compañero, Elder Alvey,and another missionary, Elder Skablund, partook of
a challenge. The 100 chicken nugget challenge! Woohoo! We bought 300 chicken
nuggets from BK and decided we would all try to eat as many as we could. Man,
that was just too tough. None of us could do it and I was soooo sick. I got to
57 and could NOT eat anything more for several hours. Elder Alvey got to 82,
and Skablund got to 62. I lost, but hey, I'm the only one who didn't puke, so
that means I kept more down than any of them ;)
Hey, I have a task for
you if you're willing. There's a mormon message video, "Enduring
Love", that has a piano piece I'd really like to play. Be forewarned though
- the video will make you cry (guaranteed). I was just hoping you could somehow
find out the song to that video. You can find the video in your gospel library
app under videos and under Mormon Messages.
I love you all so much!
Glad to hear about your Halloween!
Elder Montgomery's first baptism with Elder Alvey and Elder Robbins
- Elder Montgomery and Elder Alvey made this cake for the baptism. It's a double layer cake too. :-)
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