Californian in Kansas: A New Year, New Missionaries, and a lot of Baptisms

This was the best week of my mission. SEVEN amazing and precious souls entered the atoning waters of Baptism this week in Kellogg District. Six of them are incredibly near and dear to my heart as they made the first step towards becoming an eternal family. The Arambula-Rodriguez family has progressed so much and grown so much closer as a family over this past month as we taught them. It was so amazing when we first invited Beatriz, the mom to get baptized. We followed the spirit and taught about temples and eternal families in the first lesson with her. We used the temple to invite her to be baptized and truly began with the end in mind. We simply stated," Beatriz, we know that families can be together forever through ordinances we can make in the temple. And baptism is really only that first step on your journey to becoming an Eternal Family. Will you take that first step and be baptized?". Right then and there her whole attitude changed and she was 100% on board the rest of the way. Incredible.

Like I mentioned earlier, there was another baptism in my district, Ethan Ging got baptized! He is a super energetic and full of life 12 year old boy. He is a pioneer for his family and it is super cool watching people change their lives. As a result of his baptism, 3 of his family members have been coming to church! Super cool miracle.

We also got to take out a brand new batch of missionaries this week!! I took out Elder Wing from Utah! He is a fireball missionary with no fear an we went out and just found so many new investigators!! He got assigned to be out in Hugoton Kansas so I probably wont see him at all this transfer. I Taking out new missionaries is one of my favorite things to do because their energy is infectious! Plus you get to be their first view of the mission and of Kansas.

Last P-Day the Primary from the Spanish branch got together and had a HUGE nerf war. Did y'all know that the nerf guns now a days are super fun? The kids came up with this fun game where they line up on one side of the gym and try to run to the other side with out getting hit.... I think we had more fun then they did hahaha.

But one thing that was really cool this week, was that we didn't let the baptism of the Arambula-Rodriguez family distract us from the rest of our missionary week and had one of the most productive weeks of my mission. We were out teaching like crazy, inviting everyone to be baptized. As we continued to trust in the Lord, he continued to let blessing flow, and blessed us with tons of cool Miracles. Vivian was able to come to church on Sunday and she LOVED it! It was super cool when we all found out that her cousins are members of the branch, and she never knew! Perfect Fellowship! Overall, Awesome week. I love my Savior. I love being a Missionary. I love Kansas

Elder Murphy