Jaelyn's Baptism!!

Hey! Guys! It's almost Christmas! What?!

And guess what. :) There's still no snow here.

This week was pretty eventful! We found two new investigators (one was a former who went to church quite a bit when she was investigating a year or so ago); we went on exchanges and I went with Sister Robinson, one of my MTC companions!; we traveled down to Logan County (the epitome of coal-minin' West Virginia) for a district meeting; and hmmmm, let's see, what else.... oh yeah! Jaelyn Chatterton got baptized! :D She was an unbaptized child or reccord. She is 11, and her mother wanted her to be baptized so we taught her. :)

So, as every missionary knows, things always go wrong when there's a baptism. Our headaches started promptly at 12:10 pm that afternoon. :) Jaelyn's Grandpa was going to baptize her, but was going to be late because of other things that went wrong, so we had to call everyone who was a part of the program and make sure that they were all ok with pushing it back. They all were, thank goodness. Then everything was going wrong with the Chatterton family so they were 20 minutes late, the person who filled the font turned on the cold water instead of the hot water (poor poor Jaelyn), there was miscommunications about who was going to print the programs so there wasn't any, and then there was no paper for the printer when we finally got some made up. :) There was a good turn out from the ward though, but unfortunately Jaelyn has social anxiety and almost didn't go into the font when it was time to be baptized!! Sister Donahoo and her mom and I were in the bathroom with her trying to calm her down, and we said a prayer with her. Then her Grandpa came up her stairs and led her down and gave her a little pep talk in the font to help her. She had to be baptized twice too, poor thing! When it was all done, her mom was crying she was so happy. :)

I know that God was so proud of her for making that covenant to follow Him, and I know that the Gift of the Holy Ghost will help her so much in her life. I know that Jesus Christ is our Savior and that He will lead and guide us along our way. There's some stumbling blocks, and a lot of things will go wrong, but everything will work out. :)

Merry Christmas everyone!!!!!!

Sister Miller