November 13, 2017 -- Two months, transfers and BAPTISM!

THE BEST AND WORST THING THAT CAN HAPPEN TO A MISSIONARY: 

Thursday was supposed to be the best day ever.  We started off by teaching a lesson to ____, the investigator that was supposed to be baptised on Saturday.  He told us that on vacation he did not live the word of wisdom and thus, he couldn't get baptised on Saturday.  We were sad, but still happy because we were headed to the church to prepare for ____'s baptism.  We got there, filled the font, made programs, set up the room, and even prepared a special musical number.  3:30 rolled around and we were just planning on him being late (because he is ALWAYS LATE).  We called him and he was being held at the airport because he lost his passport on his way back from Germany.  He didn't know when he would get out and couldn't make it to his own baptism.  We were devastated.  It was supposed to such a good week with baptisms coming out of our ears and suddenly neither of them are getting baptised.

BUT THERE IS A HAPPY ENDING.  ____ told us that he could get baptised on Saturday.  It was a miracle.  Everything went smoothly (except we moved it to an hour earlier because of his work schedule) and there wasn't a member from the bishopric there.  It all worked out though.

Transfers are today.  I will be staying in Dublin, but Sister Scheib is going to Galway to train.  I will be getting Sister Yu (from Taiwan) as a companion sometime in the next few days.  I don't really know what is going on, I'm just going with the flow.  Dublin is exploding.  We had 4 baptisms this week and more to come!  They are bringing in 4 "dying missionaries" and making them a SIM Squad.  Basically they just go crazy finding, teaching, and baptising in Dublin before they go home.  There will now be 12 missionaries in our ward instead of just 8 - it is so crazy.  We have to baptise 93 people as a mission in the next 7 weeks, so we'll see how that goes!!!!  

Yesterday we had an investigator call us that we have been working very hard with and tell us that he wants to get baptised.  He is also from Brazil and we are so excited.  He has been "98%" sure for the longest time and FINALLY made the decision to be baptised this week.  We were thrilled when we got the news yesterday.