BLIZZARD AND A PHOTOSHOOT

Yes I am so sorry that I didn't have time to write to you last week.  Sister White told me that you texted her all worried..  But everything is great! The reason why I didn't respond last week was because we were with the new missionaries coming in and this transfer was huge, we had 22 leave and 21 come in so it is a giant group. I was absolutely exhausted and we didnt have any time on Monday but yes everything is great here. 

My new companions name is Elder Zacher and we are loving being together! He was just in the Logan Square ward where Sister White is serving! He is from Billings Montana! He is huge into basketball and football so we love talking about that! We are already doing so great together and having so much fun!

These last two weeks have been amazing! We have had two baptisms!! Last Saturday Jacki was baptized and it was such a great experience. She has been up and down on the whole idea for a while and we wanted to do the baptism right before Elder Foster went home but she was scared because she had to miss church the sunday before due to being out of town for work so we were just going to plan on doing it a later day. Elder Foster was going to extend his mission but he ended up not doing it. But on Thursday of that week we get a text from Jacki saying that she wanted to talk to us and she ended up telling us that she wanted to get baptized before he left. So anyways, we threw a baptism in like two days and she had a select group of people she wanted there so we were running crazy trying to plan it and find the clothes and everything. In the end, she was baptized and it was so great! She bore a powerful testimony about the love that all of the members have shown for her. She was confirmed yesterday and we got to stand in the circle.

 Then on Saturday, Dash was baptized.  I was so lucky because he asked me to baptize him! We had to pass him to the sisters because he is married so he got baptized into the family ward! The sisters just met his wife a few days ago and she is the sweetest! They think she is going to get baptized quickly because when they first met her she kept saying she was jealous that Dash was going to get baptized and she was so excited for him! They are an amazing couple!

And a crazy experience was that last week our church was canceled due to snow.  It straight up blizzared.  At the end of Sunday night there was probably about a foot and a half or two feet of snow that came down all in that one day. It was nuts, all of the people were getting stuck and the cars were all buried in.  So on Sunday we ended up just shoveling snow and helping people get out and then we had the Sacrament service in our home with just Elder Zacher, Foster and me. It was a great experience to have! Then we went to a members home and he did a photoshoot for us.

Elder Foster loved touching peoples ears so this was our picture