Conference & Baptism....

What a weekend! Sunday was super amazing with general conference
and Angela's baptism in between the sessions. It was super
overwhelming trying to do a baptism in between conference sessions. I
don't think I ever want to try that again but it was super amazing!
She seemed so happy and nervous and told us about how she has been so
excited all week for that great day. When she came out of the water
she was so happy and as she was walking out of the font she started
weeping and praising her Father in heaven. It was such an amazing
experience to see her so filled with joy and happiness. She also
already started become a member missionary because she invited every
friend, co worker, and family member she had and about 25 non member
friends and family came. It was awesome to see the support she had
from them and then since the whole ward was at the baptism the non
members got to meet the ward and it was a great experience. Some of
her sisters really felt the spirit and were overcome with tears. We
hope to start teaching some of them really soon :) plus it helped all
of her daughter say that baptism is their goal in the near future as
well.

So this week was full of getting Angela ready for baptism and
teaching her about missionary work and why it was important to invite
people to her baptism to feel the spirit. She must have understood
because she invited lots of people and many of them showed up. We also
had a zone meeting where we found out that Elder Neal L. Anderson is
coming to speak to us the 19th of April. So we get round two of
conference in less than two weeks! :) we found some cool new
investigators this week. This guy Manuel told us almost his whole life
story and how he has some really sick friends that need our message of
hope. But he wasn't there when we went back :/ then we found a really
cool new family. This guy Joaquin was interested in the fact that we
have a prophet and was interested in learning more. He said he used to
be catholic but didn't like how people would go to church and then not
live the commandments throughout the week. Excited to share with his
whole family this week :)

We brought the twins Jacqueline and Stephanie to Olis this week and
taught her about fasting. We are going to fast with her this week
about her husband. She wasn't able to come to conference because her
little boy got sick but other than that she is progressing really
well. She keeps expressing to us her desire to be baptized and is
willing to do whatever she needs to in order to make it there. I got
to see elder Maughan a lot this weekend and it was nice to catch up
with him and a lot of other missionaries I haven't seen in a while.
Conference was full answers to the many questions that I went in with
and we are so lucky to have a prophet and so many wonderful leaders in
the church the follow the spirit and be mouthpieces to The Lord. Just
as The Lord tells us "whether by mine own voice or by the voice of my
servants, it is the same." Now we just need to follow up with
ourselves as we apply and live what we heard :) also I just remembered
that someone talked about everyone that has a missionary serving
should be studying preach my gospel. I was wondering if you guys were
studying it. If not, no better time to start then right now :)

Love,
Elder Hyde