Joyce & Ethan get Baptized

Hey Y'all!

This week was probably my favorite week on my mission! I got to watch 2 people I love enter the waters of baptism on the same day who were across the country from each other. The first one was on Saturday Afternoon in Seattle and the second was Saturday night here in Elkins WV. I am so thankful to my mission president for allowing me to Skype in and for everyone here in Elkins that made all of this possible. It's so cool to see how even though you may be anywhere in the world, the gospel is the same and never changing.

Squad back together for Ethan's Baptism <3

This week I also got the opportunity to go on Exchanges with Sister Maxfield!! It was so great seeing and working with her again. I loved seeing how much we have both grown from the MTC and I'm glad our missions led us back together for a short time:)

Exchanges with Sis Maxfield:)

We started teaching a lady named Carol this week who had requested a Book of Mormon. She just got a new phone number and was getting these text messages of scriptures that were meant for the person who had the phone number before her. Anyways, she looked them up on the internet which eventually led her to Mormon.org where she inquired to learn more and eventually we were sent to her. So we show up and teach her and her daughter the Restoration and make a return appointment for Sunday. When we got there on Sunday she said, "I have to confess something...I tried to call you to cancel because someone told me you were a cult but I couldn't because the phone number you gave me wasn't working" After doing a little investigating we found out that when Sister Neilson had written the phone number the 8 looked like a 0. We assured her that we were in fact not a "cult" and we were able to teach her a great lesson on the Gospel of Jesus Christ. By the end she was asking us about how baptism works and wants to join us for church. It's amazing the ways that the Spirit and Heavenly Father work.

Have a great week everyone:)

Sister de la Cruz

Pics of Joyce's Baptism

LOVE HER

Joyce had to have a picture with Sister Mikesell in it as well:) 

 Such a good day

We had people write notes of encouragement for her while we helped her change. This picture a little boy drew for her cracks me up.