Hey Y’all,The Akin’s got baptized! Its been a really crazy and good week haha! So I’ll just talk about some of the highlights that happened this week leading up to the Baptism. Wednesday we had a really great lesson with this guy we have on date named Derrek! He’s a really great guy and has really just dived right into the book of Mormon! In our lesson with him we read in Ether chapter 12, in this chapter it talks all about having faith when you’re going through trials! A scriptures I love for this chapter is in verse 27 And if men come unto me I will show unto them their weakness. I give unto men weakness that they may be humble; and my grace is sufficient for all men that humble themselves before me; for if they humble themselves before me, and have faith in me, then will I make weak things become strong unto them. As we continue and have faith we can accomplish anything! Jesus taught us that If ye have faith as a grain of mustard seed, ye shall say unto this mountain, Remove hence to yonder place; and it shall remove; and nothing shall be impossible unto you. I can testify of this! Heavenly Father has given us an amazing gift that will help us grow our faith more and more everyday and it is called the book of Mormon! I encourage y’all to read it everyday and I can promise you that as you do this your faith and testimony of Jesus Christ will grow! Another Experience from this week happened on Friday. We did back to back service that day! We left our house at 8 am and did cow fencing till 4 pm and left straight from there to the tiny house we have been helping build and helped install the plumbing and put in a vanity! When we got home we pulled into our home at 9:30! I slept really good that night Haha! Now the day y’all have been waiting for, Saturday! On Saturday we got together with these super great guys named Carter and Joseph, they both go to the same church and have really been fascinated in what we believe! In the beginning if was more of teaching and now they have just become really great Friends! They invited us to this little dinner in town Called Tipton Cafe and bought us breakfast! Such great guys! Some back ground info on them is that Joseph is Carters friend and we found Carter over Facebook! He’s 18 years old but the crazy thing about him is that he is a genius! He graduated high when he was 14 and already has his bachelors degree in teaching and is a Math teacher at the high school! We always make jokes that he is like Sheldon from Big bang theory haha! He has tons of funny story’s about being a junior in college when you’re 15 haha! After the breakfast we left and went to the church to make sure everything was ready for the baptism! The clothes, chairs, font, etc. This was the first baptism in 7 months in Greeneville so he had to literally wipe the dust out of the font haha! When it was all ready for the water it takes about and hour and half to completely feel! Well if I have learned anything from being a missionary, you have to expect the unexpected! Well the water heater BROKE! the water was a chilling 55 degrees🥶 reminded me of Bear lake!😂In the end Jared, Autum, Ayden were all good sports and it was such an amazing experience and one I’m sure they will remember the rest of their lives! I’m so grateful that I got the privilege of helping them make sacred covenants with our Father in Heaven! After the baptism Autum asked me if I would be the one to help her receive the Holy Ghost and give her a blessing! It was such an amazing experience and a great way to end a transfer and on that note, we had transfer calls that night after the baptism and my district is getting really switched up! First off I’m getting a new companion in Greeneville and I have no clue who it’s going to be haha! Its someone that was injured and had to go home but is coming back, so I’ll find out who on transfer day! The other Greeneville missionary are both leaving so they’re White washing their area and sisters are going in there place! Kind of a bummer because now we have to go to a laundry Matt instead of there house haha! So this upcoming transfer will be pretty different! I’m excited and nervous for what is coming next! Well its been an amazing week! I hope y’all are had a great week as well and I’ll see you guys next week! Much love❤-Elder EhrhartSent via the Samsung Galaxy S10e, an AT&T 5G Evolution capable smartphone
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