93rd Letter: "Goodbye September!"

Dear Family,

Another hectic and busy week has come and gone, with an even more hectic and busy week on the horizon! Real quick thanks again fro all of your letters, and all of the time that you take out of your busy lives to update me!! I appreciate it allot, and I definitely feel of your deep love! Well as most of you probably know Devin Tsosie was baptized on Saturday! It sure was a wonderful experience! But it was very crazy as well, and I will tell you why. So Saturday was a busy day leading up to the baptism, we had appointments scattered throughout it, and we had to be at the temple for cleaning at 1pm to 3pm. The baptism was at 5pm and the plan was that the Stake baptisms that were earlier in the day would leave the font filled for us. They confirmed that they would do so and so we had trust that they would. That was a mistake. We show up at 4pm and none of the chairs are set up facing the font....immediately I knew that they forgot and that the font wasn't going to be filled! And it wasn't.... :( We rushed and started the font but it was not filling up fast at all, usually this takes about 3 hours to fill. So we went crazy filling up empty garbage cans in the kitchen, getting a hose from the janitors closet and hooking it up to the faucet there, and dragging it all of the way to the other side of the church to the font. Definitely a miracle took place as we filled the font in 45 min! It was not the cleanest water, but nevertheless it was water! Seriously Satan does all that he can to thwart a baptism from happening! He lost this battle though! :) So Devin was baptized and it was a powerful service, I was blessed to be able to baptize him, and a usual timid and non emotional man came up out of the water with the biggest smile on his face. It was really touching to see! Devin has gone truly seen a transformation in his life, from living in a life full of addictions to now a guilt free conscience and the spirit flowing through him! How wonderful is the gospel and the message of the atonement! It surely is a message of change!

So an update our investigator Josh should be getting baptized in the coming month. He is totally prepared, but just needs to find a house in our stake before he can get baptized. We had a miracle this Sunday as a potential investigator came to church named Kevin Mckenna, he is super solid too! He is from Ireland, he came over here with his mom and dad a few years ago. I was learning all sorts of Irish terms on Sunday. Probably only Zac would understand. "Whats the story horse?" I think that's my favorite! Anyways we expect great things from him, we definitely know that he has been prepared by the Lord to here the message of the Restored gospel!

So Thursday is MLC and Friday is Zone Trainings, so pray for me that all goes well there. Also we start zone conferences this next Monday, starting down in El Paso. I have a big feeling that October is going to fly bye! And then Stephen will be home, that will be weird, and then December will be here, and we don't talk about that! ;) Something that I am looking forward to in November is Elder Lawerence E. Corbridge of the seventy is coming to the mission! He will probably release me as an assistant as soon as he meets me, but I am super excited to meet him and work with him closely for a few days! Well Family I sure do love you. You really are the greatest family an Elder Barrus could ask for! :) I pray for you daily, and I hope you feel of the deep love and care that our Heavenly Father has for each of us!
Love
Elder Nic Barrus