The Day My Emily Entered the Waters of Baptism (week 15)

This week we focused a lot of our time preparing for the baptism of Emily.

It started on Tuesday. We got back from Hannover a few hours before Emily was supposed to have her interview, and somehow we squeezed in two appointments before heading to Hoang's apartment. Elder Loitz was here from Celle to conduct the interview. We biked our behinds off in the rain to be there before they started, but we arrived and quickly realized that we had forgotten the only thing that we needed to do for the interview--the baptismal paperwork. We prayed real quick with Emily before we biked our behinds back home, searched the whole apartment, called the Elders, and prayed a lot, before we came to the conclusion that we had no paperwork for Emily.

We messed up the only thing we had to do.

Thankfully Elder Loitz is the best district leader and somehow made it all work. We biked through the rain again but they had already finished the interview by the time we got there. Emily passed! Elder Loitz told us later that he was super impressed by how much she knew/understood and said that she's "genius." Well, if that doesn't make a missionary feel good, then I don't know what does! :)

On Wednesday and Thursday we struggled with German computers to make the program. After two days of wrestling with the computer and simmering frustration between my companion and I, they finally turned out okay.

The morning of the baptism, we realized that Hoang didn't have any white clothes to baptize Emily in, and Emily had forgotten her white underwear. We all ran around with our heads cut off for a while but the ward here rocks and figured everything out.

Emily made her first covenant with God on the first of June, 2014, in the city of Hildesheim, by the authority of God held by her older brother and best friend. It was a good day.

These two just melt my heart. :)

Not much else for this week. We did some service in a member's garden on Saturday and I got bitten by some kind of bug and now my whole foot/ankle is swollen, we made two batches of brownies in two days, we didn't actually have a lot of appointments this week (it was our lowest numbering week of our two transfers here together), and we spent all of Thursday inside because it was Father's Day and Germans go crazy and drink a lot so it was safer for us to not be outside.

I'm heading to Hannover tonight for exchanges and on Wednesday we're going to Hamburg for mission tour. It's gonna be a good week.

That's about it.

Over and out,

Sister Seamons