Elder Braedon Lukens: New House!

So we just moved out of our flat, and this new one is nice! We have a deck in the back, we have a long driveway, and quite a bit of space in the house! We have a cool secret door that leads to our garage too! It feels like you go to Narnia every time you use the door!

The land here is beautiful, and we went to get my camera back, and it wasnt there! they sent it to the wrong place, so they just gave me a new one! So I have pictures now!

The baptism was pretty crazy. We show up to the Chapel around 3:30 to 4:00 to fill up the font, because it takes a good 45 minutes, and we had a dinner appointment at 5. We figured it out, filled it up, ran to go eat dinner, the members decided to drop it off 30 minutes late, we scarfed it down, and my companion's bike broke at the front axle, and it's ten minutes until the wedding! So we are in our suits and everything and we start running to the chapel, and a member finally finds us while we are just a few hundred yards away from the chapel, give us a ride the rest of the way, and we barely make it on time. We go through the Marriage just fine, and when it comes to the baptism, we all go and change into the baptismal clothes. While we were there, we checked on the font and everything to make sure it was alright, and it was just perfect. We get changed, and go to start the program in the Chapel. It takes about 25 to 30 minutes to get back to the Font. Everyone is moving over, and little kids are running ahead of us then coming back yelling "THERE'S NO WATER!!!". I wouldn't be fooled though! So I kept walking not believing them saying "Of course there's water, we checked twent-OHMYGOSHTHERE'SNOWATERINTHERE!!!". Somebody who thought they were doing (satan) a service decided to empty the font right after we left.

We started filling it back up, and in the meantime, everyone went to start eating instead. It took a good 45 minutes to fill it again, and at this time it's around 8:30 at night. We try to get everyone back into the room with the font, but they were all hooked on their food. So we just decided to go ahead with it with the 8 people in the room. We had the baptism, it was great, and it was very cold. This one was a special baptism though, because Satan has tried so hard to stop this couple. We just know that they will accomplish great things if they just keep their covenants with Heavenly Father.

This week has been pretty great, and I've had other great experiences, but I think that's it for now. I love you all! I'll hear from you next week!