November 17, 2014

So this week has been the craziest of all for sure!! I'll get to that in a second but transfer calls happened last night... They normally call from 9:00-10:30. At 10:20 I was thinking we were both staying. But then we got THE CALL! Oh my gosh, I literally screamed. I had no idea what to expect but they told us that Sister Crandall was going to Toronto East and I was staying in my area but TRAINING A NEW MISSIONARY!! WHAT. I totally starting shaking. Like I was in shock and I'm super nervous. I don't know what I'm even doing. I ask my trainer like 20 questions everyday so I do not feel ready at all to train someone else but I guess that's what the Lord has in store for me. I know I will be able to grow so much from this opportunity and I'm excited to meet my new companion tomorrow! Wow, my faith and trust will grow so much this next transfer. PRAY FOR ME. SERIOUSLY. AND MY POOR NEW COMPANION!

JILL: Well thinking about this last week honestly makes me want to cry. Jill has pushed back her date 3 times. We set if for November 15th a while ago and I knew it had to happen then or it would just keep getting pushed back until it never happened. On Tuesday we had planned to go over the baptismal interview questions with her but when we got there she was a wreck!! She met with her social worker who then wrote a letter to our Bishop about her phobia of water. The letter talked about how we needed to be baptized her a different way because she wasn't mentally able to go under water... Well that's just not going to happen. Anyways to make it worse, she went to her Doctors about her foot. She was supposed to get her boot off that day but got the bad news that she needed to wear it for another two months!! She was going crazy and telling us that she can't get baptized for another two months. Well like I said I'm turning into my mom. I TOTALLY STARTED CRYING. And not just a little bit. Like I couldn't breath normally. We were sad because we knew it could work if she wanted it badly enough. We read some scriptures about the blessings that come from baptism but she was being negative and we were just getting grumpy. Anyways it wasn't going well so Sister Crandall and I left. We called our District and Zone leaders to let them know of the update. That night our zone leaders sent out a text to all of the missionaries in the zone asking to pray and fast for Jill the next day. So our whole zone prayed and fasted for Jill. We also called some of the member in the ward to tell them that it would be postponed and asked them to pray for Jill. Elder Wirtama (my district leader) suggested that Jill should get a priesthood blessing. So on Thursday night the Elders and Jack Jardien (his wife just died) came over to Jill's with us and gave her a blessing. Well after the blessing everything changed. After she said amen she said, "I think I can get baptized this Saturday." Oh man, I couldn't stop smiling. We talked about ways to make it easier for her. She told us that she wanted to get baptized in a chair and just go forward. We made some plans and went home. The next couple days we planned for her baptismal service and on Saturday SHE GOT BAPTIZED!! The power of prayer and fasting is real. It was so great to experience such an amazing miracle. 

I have a lot of other stories to tell you but we need to go home so Sister Crandall can pack. Hopefully my next e-mail will be a little bit longer. 

Thanks for all being the best! And for praying for me and Jill :) your prayers were answered! 

LOVE YOU! 

Sister Dayton

 

Notice the chair in the water :) And how short she is! 4'10

I'm staying in Weston!! Also it's freezing here!! Like -6

My camera is awful. But we gave Jill a journal so she could write down feelings about her baptism and spiritual experiences that she has. And I love her hat! BAHAHA