Baptisms

Sup Fam! 

Thank you for all the letters this week! Thank you Grandma and Grandpa for your inspiring words! I will definitely pay more attention to the sacrament prayers and reading those scriptures!

Also Congratulations Braden! I told the other missionaries that are here e-mailing with us and they thought it was the coolest thing as well! High fives and celebrations all around! Also, not to be selfish or anything, but i am super happy that you guys are staying close! California is definitely a hot spot and there is a lot of missionary work to be done here! So it sounds like Heavenly Father is sending in his secret weapons here to Cali to progress his work (Braden and Lyndsey!)! No better place than that of the center of the Oakland Raiders ;) 

These weeks just keep going by faster and faster! Elder Bates and I are shocked at how we only have one more week together! Our time together went by way too fast! Last Saturday we participated in the annual Mormon Helping hands service project of painting fences at Canyon Country Park! It was pretty hilarious when they were giving the entire community directions on how to stay organized and productive and they asked, "By raise of hands, who participated in last years service project?" Then out of all the missionaries my hand slowly raised up. So Elder Bates and I were supervisors to make sure everything goes good and people have enough paint and such. It's moments like these make me realize how long i really have been here in California! Feeling like a major veteran now... haha  

Also, Kenna, a girl from Northridge that we started teaching, surprised me at sacrament meeting yesterday! She came up to Santa Clarita to tell me that she is getting baptized and wanted to wait until i finished my mission so i could be there. She said her date is July 7th, and she asked me if that works and i said probably?... so i have no idea really what the schedule will look like when i get back, but do you think that will work?  

Anyways, we have finally made some progress here in Saugus 2nd with one of my favorite investigators, Bryant. He is a black guy that is one of our best friends and we have been spending a lot of time with him lately. He has been taught by missionaries for the past 3 years and i remember when i taught him a year ago when i was on exchanges with Elder Emery! So finally we worked through some road blocks and he has stopped smoking for the past 2 weeks now and we are planning on baptizing him this Sunday! He is a character and has been wanting to get baptized in a waterfall for the longest time, but we couldn't get that to work. Then he wanted to do it in Castaic Lake, but that got complicated as well... Since he doesn't want to do it at the church, we all came to common ground and decided to do it in a members legit swimming pool/hot tub with lights and tiki torches! So this Sunday, the whole ward is getting super pumped and Bryant is really excited for this to finally happen! Everyone in the ward is really good friends with Bryant because he has been coming for a long time now and he is definitely one of the funniest guys i have met on my mission. You never know what your going to get when you go and visit Bryant. Elder Bates will probably baptize him since he has been here longer but we will see. Bryant has his baptismal interview tomorrow so wish us luck! This will also be the first baptism this ward has had since the beginning of last year! Well we got to go, we planned a zone activity of making zone shirts again! Time to get loopy off of spray paint for the next couple hours... 

Love you all! 

Congrats Kristin and Jason on May 1st! :)

Love, Elder Brady

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