To start things off, Elder Demke and I had our first baptism!!! We are so excited for her to continue to grow in the gospel. She is going to amazing things while becoming a disciple of Christ! It was a bit of a waiting game for her to be baptized, but we got her in the water and she did great! I got the chance to sing for the special musical number. I sang "More Holiness Give Me" which I talked about a few weeks ago. I love that song. I was really happy that she asked me to do that. Although, how she found out that I sing is because she was asking what to do for the special musical number and Elder Demke just says, "Elder Cannon, sings!" I was very happy that I got the chance to do that though. Between the the second and third verse, the piano, which was just playing the song for me, glitched and went back to the list of songs. So there was a weird little pause in between the verses, but it all worked out.
This week was interesting for other reasons other than the baptism. There was a decent amount of opposition that we saw. Even the woman who was baptized saw some opposition before she came to the baptism. She couldn't find her keys for the longest time and she was starting to panic. Luckily her friend was there and she found them in the dog bowl which they have never ended up before. There was some opposition on our side of things as well. A few weeks ago, my bike got stuck in 8th gear and the bike shop in town doesn't open again until tomorrow, so I have been trudging around town in 8th gear and it has been rather difficult, but we have still been getting the work done. On Saturday though, we came to a very slight hill, and I mean very slight hill, but it felt doable on my bike. As I was going up the hill, it was rather difficult and I was trying my best to get up the hill, but my bike chain broke... So the last couple of days, we haven't even had bikes. But the work is still doable. The baptism was the next morning, so we had to walk there and get there at 6 so that we could fill the font. We left about 20 minutes after we wanted to though and didn't get there until about 6:25. But when we got there, a member of the branch presidency was already there filling the font, vacuuming the hallway, and already had the chairs set up! He had been there since 5:30! We got in and asked him if he ever stops, his response was, "Not for very long, if you stop that's when they get you!" That was very much a blessing for our diligence in still working, even though we had lots of things get in our way, we still pressed forward in doing the Lord's work. There is no way that we could have been so fortunate with out that.
Thank you all for everything that you do!
I love you.
Elder Hayden Cannon
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| Our first baptism!! |
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