This week was crazy in a 100% great way!

Hello Everybody!
Well this week was crazy. Crazy in a 100% great way.We began teaching Gabriel this week and he found out that he had to leave for boot camp in Quebec a lot earlier than first planned. (He's leaving this Friday) So we were working through our leaders to see if he would be able to baptized before he leaves. So we taught him on Wed&Thur, he went to institute Friday and at Friday night at 10:25 our DL called us and said, "So President said how about he gets baptized on Sat (tomorrow) and confirmed Sunday." We were both like HOLY SMOKES. seriously? He had only been to church once but we had seen some serious commitment from him. Plus he had been going to institute activites. So we tried calling him before our curfew and couldn't get a hold of him. Saturday morning we taught ESL and finally were able to reach him and we told him about the situation and how being baptized that day would be good because then he would be confirmed Sunday. He said, "Ok ya, that's a possibility I guess." At that point we were like holy smokes! This is actually going to happen! So he had his interview a couple of hours later and at 6 we had a baptism. It was really neat to look back at the week and see how easy it was to cover the lessons so quickly. When we would teach him, it would just roll right into the next topic or commandments. Making us able to teach basically 3 lessons in 1. He brought up concerns really quickly and everything just worked out so very simply. Oh, the elect! Sunday at his confirmation we were waiting for him to get there and he wasn't showing up or answering his phone. It was after sacrament meeting had started and we were stressin. But he finally txt us and told us that his roommate had gotten arrested and had all the keys with him at the time. Long story short, our ward mission leader (the one who baptized him in the picture) drove us to go pick him up and he was confirmed after church. Gabriel is SO funny. He walked in after the stress of the morning and let out a sigh and said, "I missed {the} church."  hahaha I hope you can all meet him some day! I still can't believe we met him last Sunday, he was baptized this Saturday and confirmed on Sunday. All in a weeks work. With A LOT of special permission from President and the Lord.

   Right after Gab's baptism we went with the Don Mills South elders to downtown and handed out BoM's at the BOM play! I've never had such a fun day on my mission. It was classic. Because of the baptism we were a little late and part of the subway was shut down so we were booking it through downtown to make it to the play and just caught the tail end of the crowd. Hopefully we'll get to do it again this week though! I was surprised at how many people already said they had a BoM because they have friends who are members. Glad to hear that missionary work is happening :)

   Favorite quote from Gab this week, as we were walking the bus stop with him after church, he said, "Last night my brother brought a case of beer over as we watched the hockey game and guess what I did? I made a smoothie!" haha

   Our other investigators are doing pretty good. We're working with them all! Slowly but surely they're progressing. 

Well, in all of the excitement I hope I didn't forget anything crucial to tell ya :) The church is true! Thanks for the prayers :) We definitely felt them this week!

Sister Messer