Hoping for a couple Baptisms

3-17-14

Ya, I saw the article on Jordan that you sent.  That's so crazy.  It sounds like he is definitely being watched over right now.  All of those things that you mentioned going on sound sad, but it's really a blessing to know that the things we understand about the Plan of Salvation, so that we can have peace when things like that happen.  It sounds like you had a really great Sacrament meeting.  Ours was really great, as well.  There was a youth speaker who talked about being an example in all things, and the two adult speakers talked about the importance of enduring to the end.  Each of them put a huge emphasis on making sure that nothing gets in the way of attending church every week and partaking of the Sacrament.  The second adult who spoke was from the High Council and he told us that he was less-active for years and always found an excuse not to come to church, but he eventually came to realize what bad decisions he was making by neglecting to come to church.  The part that stunk was that there were no less-active members at church that week.  It always seems to work that way.  The people who would benefit from a certain message the most are the ones that don't hear it.  Oh well.  That picture of all those missionaries in the 5K were in my last area, so I would have been able to do it if I was still there, and there are a lot of other runs in the mission, but none that are close by me.  I want to do the tough mudder, buuuutttt, I don't think that that would be allowed.  (?)  Things have been going pretty well here.  There weather has been pretty nice, we have had a good number of lessons, and we might be able to set a baptismal date or two this week if things go well, so I'm excited to see if that will happen.  We also have interviews with president this week, so that will be good.  How's the weather at home?  Is there still any snow?  Have Corbin's parents told you who he is doing?  I haven't heard back from him since he got out to Japan.  Anyway, love ya.  I hope you have a great week.

Love,
Elder A. Whaley