Training from Salt Lake

Its been another great week in Oakville!!

We had an interesting weekend this week. We had three baptisms in three different areas! We went to all of them. We have 9 more before the end of the month. We are trying to make as many as possible to show our support to the Elders and Sisters. Its really fun to watch. One of them this weekend was with the 100 year old lady. It was a really neat service. When she was baptized, she was gently set in under the water and very carfully brought back up (normally it seems that they are "thrown" under the water). It was just a really neat experience. Then after another baptism we had to correct some Elders. That is the worst part of our job. Although it was done in the spirit, it is never fun.

We had a really good sacrament/testimony meeting as well. We had two people there and the other Elders had seven! Margret came, like normal, and Steve and his five year old son came. It was really kinda funny. Johnathan (the son) didn't want to leave his dad for primary, so Steve stayed in Primary for the last two hours. It looked like Johnathan made some friends though so next week Steve will be able to go to gospel principles. We still aren't sure about if Margret will get baptized this weekend. We'll find out tomorrow. She doesn't have a problem with the doctrine (from what we can tell), so we're trying to figure out how we can help her out still.

You may remember me talking about how the Church has revamped missionary work a few months ago. With that came these training meetings every other transfer. Well it's that time again, but in addition to that we are having an "offical training meeting." I guess two men are coming from "Salt Lake" (we say that anyone/anything offical comes from Salt Lake) to train us. As a part of that, they are going to follow around some missionaries a few nights before the big meeting. Well, we were chosen. We weren't sure that was good or bad but it sounds fun.

Mom-Yeah, my full name is fine. No I don't need anything, thanks though
Dad-We now have eight zones in our mission. and iIthink we have around 170 missionaries (give or take a little).

Anyway, it seems that we have another good week in front of us. There was an Elder who just came home in our ward and he is excited to come out and work with us. we're looking forward to it.

Have a great week,
Love,
Elder Egan