More Baptisms

Hello mom and dad,
The week went pretty well. Our baptism went really good yesterday and the water was soooo cold. She asked me to baptize her so I had to get in the water (obviously) and it was the coldest water I have ever baptized in my whole mission. The hot water at the chapel we are going to now does not work so it was just straight cold water, man I thought she was going to pass out. Her testimony was really good though. That’s my favorite part of the baptism is when the people get up and bear their testimony, that’s the point when you really get to see the change in them. The best part about missionary work is when you actually see the people just completely change from their old self to their new self, I love it.

We should hopefully be having another baptism this Sunday for this kid named Vicky. He is the son of the family we baptized recently and he came down for school and now we are teaching him and trying to prepare him for his baptism. It was also really cool that at the baptism, Victor (the father of the father led family we just baptized) gave a super good talk at the baptism. It was really cool to hear him actually give a talk for the first time. We also found him a white shirt and some pants and a tie for Sunday, so he looked pretty sweet as well.

We are teaching some really cool people though at the time. Recently we have been teaching this girl named Winnie. She is a girl who actually called us from a pass along card...which never happens. And while we were talking to her on the phone she sounded like completely Muslim, so we were very confused because people that are Muslim do not usually want to hear a message about Jesus Christ. But we called and we were trying to get directions from her and I think she gave us the worst possible directions to her house that she could have but somehow we found her house. I tell you it was 100% by the spirit. It would be like me calling you guys and telling you I like live next to Wal-Mart in AF when I actually live in like Provo by the BYU football stadium. It was that bad. But anyways we finally met her and to our surprise it was a black girl that spoke exactly like a person from the Middle East. It was so strange. I think she like grew up by a lot of people from the Muslim faith because her whole conception of everything is like so strange … but we were thinking of dropping her after the first visit just because she was like very strange. But we went back and she read like everything we gave her and understood everything perfectly and now she is like the sweetest investigator we have. She was also telling us that after the day that we came, 5 different people from different faiths came and asked her if they could teach her...which is really crazy because that never happens. She was telling us that she thinks that Satan does not want her to hear the message that we have for her. But anyway she came to church yesterday for the first time and she loved it … but I just thought I would share that because I thought it was kinda cool. She is pretty sweet and is on date for September.     
Ha-ha ya I love messing with Elder Rose he is a good kid. That is an awesome story by the way with the lady that served you was the same lady in the movie. That was also made like what, 4-5 years ago? So that means that she has probably been working at that Arctic Circle for quite a long time.

I have actually been thinking about prayers a lot lately. As a missionary we pray like a thousand times a day, and I have been trying to figure out how to like mix up my prayers lately. I have been feeling like I’m just getting in like a rhythm of the same prayer and its starting to bug me, so I liked what dad said a lot about that man. 
I’m glad girls camp went well, sounds like you had a lot of fun. I also did not realize that it has been that long since you guys have seen Casey. It does not seem like it’s really been that long but I guess it has. Crazy. But love you guys a lot hope your week goes good take care!
Love, Elder Justin Brey