3/02/15

Ok so the first two pics are of beautiful Northern California. I love this place! It has stolen my heart :)

The second two are of us going to Stake Conference a couple weeks back..actually last week :) and Heidi came with us! She is one of our investigators :)and the last two are of the baptism. Bishop baptized Kevin :)

Hello Family!!

 Oh my goodness! I can't believe Rad is dating. What the heck!?! Oh my gosh. Seriously my mind is blown. He is so grown up!! Ahh! Ok I'm done with my little rant. That is just so crazy! Ok anyways thanks for the pictures! They are so cute. I seriously wished that I could have been there for his very first date! But that is ok because guess what happened that same night! Kevin got baptized!!!! It was one of the best baptisms I had even been to. The spirit was so strong and our little ward supported him that night. There were 40 people who came to that baptism. It was so special. We seriously have the best ward mission leader. He made the baptism program (he supposed to..but they never do!) and he called everyone last week and the day of inviting people. It was awesome. I was stressing out a little bit that night because one of the members likes to take us to this fancy Steakhouse for dinners and he signed up the night of the baptism so I asked if he could move dinner to 4:30 so that we would have enough time to prepare for the baptism afterwards, and everything worked out just fine. We pulled back into the church parking lot and Bro. Abono (WML) was already there, he had set everything up and all we had to do was fill the font. I just love this ward! Kevin didnt show up until 6:45...but other then that it was the perfect baptism. Yesterday he was confirmed and he bore his testimony during sacrament meeting :) I can't wait for him to get the priesthood and baptize his wife and then they are going to get sealed in the temple and it is going to be beautiful. I love being a missionary. Rob Copeland, another one of our faithful, solid, golden investigators was the first one to get up yesterday in Sacrament meeting to bear his testimony. My investigators teach me WAY more than I teach them. I love it.

 Ok we also had a temple trip this week! Got up at 4:30 am (reminisced my life before the mission) and got there and found that Napa zone was there too! It was so fun! We had MLC on Friday which was alllllll about technology. Our whole mission is getting new Ipads..I just wish I could keep the one I have had for my whole mission, but I learned that I came to this mission to enjoy technology rather than to hate it and get annoyed by it. Anyways, new Ipads will be good I guess.This week was super fun and super tiring all at the same time. We had 2 early mornings right in a row! And this Sunday is daylight savings. I really miss Arizona around this time of year :)  

 Yesterday in Relief Society we talked about fear. The teacher asked us what our biggest fear was, one ladies said Mondays :) haha, but anyways Sis. Pollock said Fear is: False Evidence Appearing Real. I loved that! Sis. McFadden was talking about when Nephi was on the ship and his brothers tied him up and his loved ones were begging Lamen and Lemuel to release Nephi and Nephi's response was, "According to MY faith, Lord, release me". I love that. We have to have faith in the Lord and we have to always trust the promptings of the spirit to "go and do" because if we dont, we will let fear cripple us. 

  I love you all so much! Have a great week!! Love, Hermana Hamblin

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