Mel was Baptized!

 Hello everyone! This week was a super super good week. Our friend Mel got baptized and confirmed and it all went so well. 

     So a few weeks ago while we were teaching Melvyn, he was struggling a lot. He had lots of different emotional struggles, and he was struggling for money because he couldn't get a job anywhere. It was a hard time for him and he was really down. It's so amazing to see the light he now has and how happy he is. But the cool part is we felt prompted to promise him that he would get a job if we he would make this decision to follow Christ. He accepted the baptismal date and he started doing his very best to follow Jesus. He threw away all his coffee immediately, he started reading the Book of Mormon and listening to general conference and praying. But for weeks on end he could not get a job, even though he was following Christ and trying his hardest to get a job. He was sad about it, but knew he should still be baptized. Then on Saturday night, literally hours after his baptism, he got a call saying he got a job and he starts Monday morning. Such a cool miracle!! God is so real and so involved in our lives!

     I went on exchanges this week out to a small town called Childress. It was a super good time. They've been teaching a friend who is really promising, but they hadn't gotten her to accept a date to be baptized. We went and taught her on exchanges and as we explained covenants and the connection they gives us to Christ, she looked at us and told us she wants that in her life! She is now preparing to be baptized!

     I got to go down to Lubbock this week for MLC! It was a great one, and we decided as a mission to do a month long mission fast. We'll pray and ask God what we can sacrifice, and fast from for the next month. It's a super cool opportunity and I'm stoked to see what will happen in our mission! 

     We found a few people this week, they're a part member family named the Del Fierro's. The mom is a member but no one else is. The husband has been to church before, but he's pretty hesitant because he thinks we praise Joseph Smith too much. We had a great conversation about it, and he understand a bit better. He's reading Book of Mormon passages that correlate with Bible passages, so hopefully this will work out!

    Had a cool but interesting thought while studying The Book of Mormon this week. Im currently looking for what every single story can teach me about Christ, which was a little difficult with Nephi killing Laban haha. But I had a super cool insight. Nephi represent Christ, Laban represents Satan or sin/temptation, and Zoram represents all of us. Zoram (All of us) was a slave to Satan, and to sin. But he was rescued by Nephi (Christ) who won the victory over Laban (Satan). Kind of a fun way to look at I guuess haha.

Love yall! See ya next week!

Love, Elder Ryan