Baptized by Fire!!🔥

Haha YESss!! As you can probably guess I had my first baptism this week! Andy June was baptized and I'm so grateful I got to be apart of his spiritual journey :)

October 15th: We woke up, packed and headed to zone conference! Zone conference was super helpful and gave me a spiritual boost I needed and also more finding strategies, more ways we can involve member work into finding and more ways we can find joy in the work. Then Elder Armstrong bore his testimony and everyone just lost it, all the sisters started crying and hugging each other and it was so spirit filled! After that we chatted with other missionaries for a bit then went on exchanges! Then last night I was given an air mattress with a hole so I had to wake up like three times in the middle of the night to refill it with air...sooo I got like maybe an hour of sleep haha but it was really funny.

October 16th: Okay so today was one of the best days on the mission eva!! So I woke up this morning feeling pretty awful cause last night I barely got any sleep at all and it was freezing! But it's okay cause we got to go to Volleyball in the morning and even though I'm not super good at Volleyball it was really fun! ( and picture me in pj's and prosoliting socks and that was my Volleyball clothes) Then we started off the day by finding!! And we also made a district goal to see who could talk to people about potato's the most and we won cause we'll I'm from potato land so that was pretty easy. And we talked to EVERYONE we saw and one guy even flipped me off so that wasn't very nice but he's a son of God either way. Then at lunch we found another guy at taco bell who was already in the whitesboro missionaries teaching pool that we retaught at taco bell so that was really awesome! Then the cash register lady gave me a bunch of coupons I now get to pass out to people! So as I hand them a free Book of Mormon they can also get a free taco! Then we had a lesson with Doug about the Plan of Salvation and that was a really good lesson! Then we went to the June's after exchanges and had our last lesson with Andy before his baptism, he cracked a couple smiles so that's always nice cause he always looks like he's sleepy or angry when in reality he's actually the sweetest guy ever. Then  I crashed when we got back to our apartment.

October 17th We helped Barbra Libby clean her neighbors apartment cause her neighbor swallowed a battery and had to go to the ER. Then we went to Burtons house and he was cool, he gave us a Bible from his great grandmother and it's just chilling in the back of our car sooo yah we don't know what to do with it Then we had Book of Mormon class!! 

October 18th: driving was kinda frustrating today ngl but it was still a good day cause we had a phone call with Jorden this morning and service at the rescue center! Them later that day we went to go visit our friend Lindsay and she was drunk and her husband marched up to our car and it was really scary but he wasn't mad with us he was just mad at Lindsay sooo we hope she is doing good! Then Andy had his baptismal interview w/elder Hoffman and Anderson! 

October 19th dang!! Today was nuts! Are teaching pool is crazy, our apartment is crazy and we R CRazy!! So we went all the way to boonville today and knocked around d and eventually we found our friend Nick and he was really interested and excited to read the Book of Mormon! So that was awesome cause we thought Nick blocked us and turns out his number was just typed in wrong! So that's why we are not supposed to judge people! 

October 20th: Today was Andy's Baptism!! The water was like super hot and it felt like a hot tub so during the baptism Andy's wide was like "yasss baptized by fire!!" Anyways it was a great baptism and 2 of our friends came to church so that was cool and the baptism was really spiritual!

Love, sister Hodges 🫶🏼