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Monday, May 21, 2018 - The Samuri

Well!! It was a super good week!! 

Elder Blount and I lined two people up for baptism on June 2nd! We are super excited!! They are so ready. It is the family that we found when our recent convert came out with us he received inspiration and we found a recent convert family!! We are super happy. We also have a baptism this coming Saturday, so these next two weeks are going to be awesome! 

Yesterday, we watched the temple dedication for the Jordan River temple. It was super good. President Eyring is the one who dedicated it. What was cool was that after the last dedication session, we (all the elders in our mission, and the west and south missions, so about 300 elders) got to help get the temple ready for the first session! We took out all the chairs from the session, and put in all the furniture and decorations! It was a ton of fun. The way we took out all the chairs is that we made a giant chain. Two of them to be exact. We passed the chairs from one elder to the next until it got all the way to the chapel about 3-400 yards away! It was pretty cool. 

We had to leave early though because we had a baptism to go to for the sisters. It was crazy. On our way there the person who was supposed to be performing the ordinance called us and said he had an asthma attack and had to go to the hospital. So, because of emergency, I got to baptize him! It was super special. 

Love you all!! Have a great week! 

Ether 12:12-15

-Élder Wilkes



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