Buddy the bird, Baptism

August 3, 2015

So here is my week so far

Monday we hang out with the elders from Waynesboro and also had a

blast rescuing that baby bird because the member who had it said that

we needed to take it to a shelter and see what was going on. We found

out that Buddy the bird had a broken leg and needed to be put in anesthesia

immediately. After we were worried about buddy but we said "You know

what, it's in the Lord's hands now." So we went on with our day hoping

Buddy was okay. We had dinner with some new move in members from the

Bay Area and we talked about the importance of the temple. Later a

member invited us over for family home evening so we went there and

shared a message about planning and how it helps for what we may have

happen in our lives.

Buddy the bird 

Tuesday we went on an exchange so I went to Elder Rhineheart's area

and Elder Hansen went to ours. All I know is that we were visiting

many people and the person that went with us was never a member yet,

although he was planning on it when he turns 18, his name is Sam. Sam

is awesome and we had a good lesson with Sam. I learned a lot from the

new missionary and how important teaching simple truths is, we went

over to a youth pastor's house and we (as peacefully as possible)

explained and discussed the importance of personal revelation gained

from reading the words of the prophets, whether they be from the Holy

Bible or the Book of Mormon.

Wednesday we exchanged back and we were involved in two things. Both

were done with a member named Ian Jarvis . The first was clean the

branch building for the baptism on Friday. The second was visiting

people after we cleaned (and did some paperwork). We visited the Smith

family and Tony Burke, both were doing well. The Smith family's home

was where the bird was found and we found out later that day that

Buddy passed away during surgery from internal bleeding from his

suicidal tendencies from jumping off a 2 story building more then

twice... May Buddy the bird rest peacefully eating all the worms and

stuff he (or she, we didn't really check if Buddy was a dude or a

girl) so desires to the little stomach can't hold it anymore. During

our dinner break we played a game with Ian called Bang, Halo edition.

It was quite adventurous and we had some good times with that game.

Thursday we had a few major things go on. We helped brother Weber move

11 railroad ties that were 100lbs each, usually... That was the light

ones. Then we helped someone move. One was Kaylie Hanna's baptismal

interview and that went well. Right before that though we had a lesson

with Bonnie Sharp and discussed and reviewed exodus and the 10

commandments. Since Monday we only have 40 miles total we are allowed

to use in our car before we exceed the allotted monthly mileage so we

have been involving people with our work and driving a lot more then

usual and we now only can use 10 miles per the 30th and 31st but once

it hit August then we were fine. We then had dinner and after then

were asked by a couple in our apartment complex to stop by and pick up

some food they had made us. We discussed with them missionary work and

shared with them more of our beliefs.

Landon's baptism 

Friday was basically 2 things. One was a meeting in Harrisonburg and

another was the baptism for Landon and Kayliee. Thankfully both went

well and I learned for myself on why I am doing what I am doing on the

mission. We had an investigator come to the baptism! It was an awesome

experience.

Saturday we had service and another baptism and Sunday we visited and

taught many people(investigators and those that are new members) we

also had an interesting experience wit people sharing what they

believed in sacrament meeting. It was interesting, and we kinda were

smiling during that too. Here is one of the two kids we helped be

baptized. His name is Landon.