Season 16 Episode 1

This week was one of the best weeks ever! We had an apostle, and a baptism. Not much better than that!

My new companion is Elder St Clair. He is from Eagle Mountain. He is 18 and and graduated early to come out. So he is fresh from high school. It is going to be a bunch of fun to be working with him.

Alex and his two trainees - Elder Brown(rt) and Elder ST Clair (left)

The first couple days of the week mostly consisted of the business of transfers. Elder Bleazard is still in the zone, he lives now in an area just a little more down the zone. So we moved his stuff and tried to get things done, but problems kept happening.

The end of the week made up for the first few days of the week. Friday we had a stake  Aaronic Priesthood commemoration for the restoration of the priesthood. We were asked by the stake president to be there and to sing “Called to Serve”. President McAteer spoke to the group and they had us sit in a group of other missionaries and randomly stand up to sing called to serve. It was pretty cool when one group stood up them the next and so forth.

Saturday was great! We started off with a meeting with Elder Anderson from the twelve. We also had President Christiansen from the presidency of the seventy. We met at the mission office about an hour before and when he came in he wanted to shake everyone's hand. Elder Andersen said some things that really impacted me. One thing he told us was that the calling of a missionary is a branch of the calling of an apostle. The only way they can really take the gospel to all nations is through us. And he said that we are called as witnesses of Christ while he is called as a special witness of Christ. I really enjoyed that. Also when he bore his testimony of the Savior, it was really powerful. Then after the spiritual meeting we went as fast as we could to the baptism. I got to baptize Brandon and it was sweet! The spirit was so strong. He had some good family support for him too which was great. They all weren't members but they came. Brandon was able to bear his testimony at the end and it seemed to mean a bunch to him. He is a stud!
That was basically our week!

Elder Astle