Crestview 2 Daphne

Man, this week has been such a good one! I just feel like I have been being spiritually fed soooo much recently from my studies and just being out and about, it is so amazing!! So this week I spent most of it down in Geneva on 2 exchanges with the district leader and his companion.  We had some pretty cool things happen! We were able to find someone that they had taught ages ago but he ended up going to jail in Panama City; he just got back. Super long story short, our appointments fell through, so we decided to walk down the street and found him walking out of his house. We got talking with him, and he really really wants to get back into church and creating a relationship with God and he wants to get baptized, it was so crazy!!!! Sometimes people need a little humbling so that they can experience God's love and light more fully into their lives.

Elder Blamires got sick on Friday, so I basically just sat around, slept,watched spiritual videos, studied the scriptures and wrote in my journal, it was pretty cool. Recently I have absolutely 100% loved reading the scriptures, they are soooo amazing! Every time I pick them up, I feel as if they are speaking right to me and helping me understand the gospel and the Savior even more. I have also been doing the Doctrine and Covenants challenge, where I read a section every night before I go to bed so that I can finish it by the end of my mission, I wish I would've done it sooner!!! The Doctrine and Covenants is a PERFECT tool for missionaries to understand their purpose and how God loves all of his children and desires them to have the blessings of the gospel as well, I have an increased desire to serve and share every time I read, I love it!

 The highlight of the week was that Elder Delamare and I were able to get permission to go to Bobby's baptism over in Daphne. On Saturday, Elder Blamires and I drove over to Crestview to pick up the other elders so we could carpool over. While in Crestview, we were able to go to my favorite restaurant, Pounders, with one of my favorite families from the mission (the Corbins), it was so awesome!!! We then drove over to Daphne for the actual baptism, and it was incredible! Bobby has been taught for 4 years but couldn't get baptized cause he wasn't 18 and didn't have permission from him parents. Last week was his 18th birthday. We got there and there were a bunch of missionaries that had taught him, and soooo many members too; literally the entire chapel was filled because so many people love Bobby and wanted to support him. What a wonderful experience it was to be there for Bobby, he really has embraced the gospel so well, and I know that he is going to do great things in his life, what a pleasure it was to be a part of teaching him!

Thanks for everything y'all!! 

Elder Schipaanboord