The absolute highlight of the week was yesterday: we baptized 4 kids!!! 2 were ours, Jennifer and Andrew. He's 9, she's 10 and they're both amazing kids :) Andrew just barely got permission from his dad to be baptized. And somehow no one had realized that Jennifer wasn't baptized when she turned 8... We learned this on Tuesday. So between then and yesterday, we had to teach her all the lessons, since that's required for baptism. So, we got all 4 kids together (just as a review for the other 3) and we taught EVERY missionary lesson in just under 2 hours... That was craziness!! Luckily she basically knew it all already from having come to church every day for like her whole life. But yes, 10/10 would not recommend! Don't try to teach distracted, fidgety kids that much in one night. Anyway, the other two baptisms were Dael (10) and Diego (8). They're brothers :) the rest of their family was baptized a few years ago. Dael chose not to at the time, wanting to figure it out for himself. And Diego just turned 8 :) Elder Clark (one of the ones they kicked out of the area a few weeks ago) was able to get special permission to come back and baptize Dael because he's the one who really helped him understand the importance of baptism. It was awesome and we were all so happy!! It was so amazing and beautiful to see these kids be able to make this covenant with their Heavenly Father--especially because I know each of them understood why it was important and they each really had a sincere desire to do it :) most of them cried and I did too. I really think it was one of the happiest moments of my life thus far. And I love this gospel!! And being a missionary is the absolute best :) sorry, but I'm never coming home. I'mma do this the rest of my life ;) nah, I wish.
I hope you're all doing well and that you're all happy :) the Gospel makes me so happy and I hope you guys feel that too :) stick with it, eve, when it's hard. I promise it's worth it!!!
-Hermanita Johnson
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