Service and Baptisms

This week was incredible! The greatest miracles were the baptism of Deiri and Brandon. Carlitos’ baptismal date got pushed forward too! YAY!  His mom also wants to go to the temple. There have just been crazy miracles all over the place.

Well last week, we were sitting doing weekly planning and that morning had been talking about how not too many people let us do service for them. Anyway, as we were planning I saw a guy out of the corner of my eye through the window carrying stuff out to his car. I thought he was just going to take a couple of loads, but then he just kept doing it. I commented to Hermana Venegas and then we both just knew what to do! J We ran and put service clothes on to help him! He is from Argentina and was moving back to California with his cute wife and little boy. They had to move out all of their things really quickly! They were so glad we came to help. We even found someone to come and take their mattress. We helped them for quite a while. Turns out that he has some Mormon friends and knew the missionaries in California. They trusted us so much that they had us turn in their keys the next day for them…and gave us his car keys. They then bought us a pizza from Pizza 9, we took pics, he said, “2 baptisms on Facebook, huh?” it was hilarious. We think he has had quite a bit of contact with missionaries and has had good experiences.

So the baptism of Deiri and Brandon. There were a few set backs, but they did it! They showed up nice and early. But Deiri didn’t want to get dressed until right before. Deiri got very emotional as her uncle gave the first talk. Then the baptismal ordinance. It was the most spiritual and beautiful baptism I have ever witnessed. He said the prayer so perfectly and did the baptism so slowly. We had to give the talk on the Holy Ghost because the lady who was supposed to couldn’t. The lady for the refreshments texted us saying that she couldn’t come. Then we also had planned with Raul to pick up Olivia, but we don’t know what happened. We decided that we might take care of a few of these things next time. J President Bleak was so great though. We celebrated at Chic-fil-at afterwards.

Another great miracle is Carlitos. He is Ana and Isabel’s little brother. He is now getting baptized sooner than we thought AND his mom now wants to get baptized too! J We are so excited!

Well, we should be doing lots of dodge ball and bball today so I am excited! I sure love this and hate that it is coming to an end. These last months are going to be amazing. I am so grateful for this amazing time I have had to represent the Lord.  

Hermana Nye

We received the following email from an elder in Hermana Nye's mission who knows her uncle and is from Wendell, ID

From: Micah Pope <micah.pope@myldsmail.net>
Date: July 22, 2014 at 1:00:52 PM MDT
To: nate@realdeals.net
Subject: It's Elder Pope!

Hey Nate and family!  How are things going? I am just sitting here next to Kristina Nye at the library emailing, and I thought I would email you guys!  Oh man, Sis. Nye is honestly one of the best missionaries in this mission - she does a great job!  She is training a missionary named Hermana Venegas right now, and they are doing SUPER AWESOME!  I get to be Hermana Nye's zone leader right now, so I always get to check up on her and see how she is doing.  The best part, though, is that she DOMINATES at basketball!  She is definitely the best sister at basketball in the mission, and she is better than 80% of the elders too, haha!

Everything else is going REALLY WELL here in Albuquerque!  I am loving it here, and I look forward to being able to continue to serve the Lord.  I hope everything is going well for you guys back in Idaho.  Elder Pope