Pickle-ball Champs!

Whats up, last week wasn't as eventful but it was still good. Had various lessons throughout the week as usual, but we had to push back this 10 year old's baptism which was supposed to happen this coming saturday. His name is Jamal, he is african american, his mom had been baptized for almost a year, but never really had Jamal get taught or have him sit in on the lessons or anything so we have started from the beginning with him. He is a bit tricky to teach, the spirit will come in during a lesson then Jamal will throw the scriptures off the couch or crawl under the table so it's hard to know if he is retaining anything....we will keep working with him.

There were 27 people on date to be baptized in the month of October but only 11 went through, so my Mission president had an emergency zoom meeting with the whole mission sometime last week and basically said we need to try harder and make sure we are thoroughly teaching our investigators everything.  I know my mission president is called of God and that he wants and knows what's best for our mission. Every time he gives a lesson or speech to us I can feel the spirit so powerfully and I know the whole mission is trying super hard to follow the rules and bring others to come unto Christ.

...Anyways we have another man on date who has been taught for like 4 years apparently so for our lessons we just read whatever we want with him. Our branch has church every week now, and he came to church 2 sundays in a row and he said he wants to be baptized so we're putting him back on date to be baptized for like the 6th time, pray for Jason.

....I crashed my bicycle last week, my companion and I always touch each other's back tires, anyway he was getting super annoying with it, and he swerved in front of me so I rammed him super hard far up near the front of his back tire but he kept turning left when I thought he'd turn back right after I hit him but he didn't,so I crashed cause he cut me off.  I'm not gunna lie, I got pretty salty, but i didn't show it and it was kind of my fault so it's all good.

.....last P-day the elder that is in the marines bought 4 pickleball paddles and 2 balls on amazon and they got here on like thursday, so today we've been going hard.  I'm proud to say that me and my companion won the little tournament!  It was super fun....................anyways can't think of anything else so talk to you all next Monday.