Olivia is getting baptized!

 Hey yall! This week was a good week! Conference was incredible and we saw some miracles this week.

    So Olivia is getting baptized this Saturday! I could not be more excited for her. We've had some cool experiences with her this past week. We've been teaching her about The Plan of Salvation and she absolutely loves it. She heard about it in an institute class and saw a diagram and she's been dying to learn more. At the end of our lesson last Monday she says "Elders, I've got to tell yall something." I got worried, but she goes "I am ready to be baptized as soon as possible. I see no point in waiting longer." Heck yeah haha. She really is so prepared.

    This weekend she watched all 5 sessions of general conference at the institute building with us and our ward. It answered so many questions for her. So her parents are very against her baptism. They text her daily literally begging her to not get baptized, telling her it's breaking their hearts and they didn't raise her like this, so on and so forth. President Nelson's talk was so perfect. He said that although making covenants makes life easier, it doesn't make life easy. And then he said "Expect opposition! The adversary doesn't want you to make covenants with the Lord." Olivia just started crying and it was a direct answer to hers and our prayers!

    We had a lesson with our friend Caden this week. It was a great lesson specifically about The Book of Mormon. He's been reading it, and he says he gets the same feeling from reading it as when he read The Bible. He can't seem to correlate that it means it's true though. We asked what he would do if he knew the book was true, and he said that would change everything because then Joseph Smith and everything else is true. We had a really powerful discussion testifying that it is true, and inviting him to pray about it. He said he would! Then something cool happened.

    So we invited him to conference, but he said he couldn't come. Then on Sunday morning during conference, Caden comes strolling into the institute building during one of the sessions! He sat by us and explained that he only has about 20 minutes, but he felt like he should come just for a bit. The talks he heard were so perfect for him and it was truly a miracle!

     Hope yall have a good week! I know Christ lives and that he calls prophets and Apostles to guide us here on the earth. Love yall!

Love, Elder Ryan

Elder Allen