- Elder Baird's #BLESSED Mission: WEEK 39 RICHMOND: Some Call Me a D1 Moocher (almost)

Ladies and Gents, Boys and Girls. Your favorite person in the world is back! This week was pretty epic and almost perfect.

Unfortunately BanBan got the bad end of the stick, but more on that later.

Lets just say though, my stomach was very full this week, and all the Chinese people, nevertheless, very persistently keep saying I am too skinny, and that I need to get more fat. So that and chapter 8 have been good friends. We workin' on it though!

(Gang don't worry, I'm coming back shredded.)

((Shoutout Bishop, I'm still expecting 13 pushups when I get home))

Wednesday was great, the senior couple from Burnaby, the Hunts, took us out to Taiwanese food. Got some scrumptious 牛肉面, and it was super fun to hangout and talk with them. They're the goats. Once again, had another baller lesson with Li. This waiting game is testing my patience though. No worries, he'll be in the water sooner than later. Then finished off with some Come Follow Me.

Today was when everything did take an unfortunate turn though. The golden week that was planned out was foiled. Many bye bye parties canceled . Elder Barnes woke up to a much unexpected case of much 拉肚子. Was able to get Anne's interview in though which was great. And was able to make it to English class. After English class too, we had a super cool miracle. All three sets of us missionaries randomly gave almost every English class member a chapel tour. It was super cool. Spirit was way strong.

Friday was still unfortunate. Elder Barnes was best friends with the bathroom. But we walked like 2 miles to a member's house. Which was nice for being cooped up in the house all day. Was a marathon for him, but a noice lil stroll.

Saturday was BLESSED! It was actually so amazing! In the morning we had a lesson with James, ugh, bro, why do some people just looooovveee cheap grace... But hey, what can ya do. One day his heart will be un硬ed. Then we were able to go to the temple with our Elders Quorum. We were able to get two of our recent converts there for the first time, and it was so amazing. Got to do baptisms too which was a nice change. Love the temple! Then came home and started filling the font. Got to play the piano for like an hour and a half which was very nice indeed. Then the time came!!! Anne got Baptized!!! It was literally so perfect. The only mishap was that we forgot to unlock the door from the girl's bathroom to the font. Kinda funny ngl. But it was just so good. I got to do my first confirmation. Then she gave her testimony at the end and it was straight Fuego!! Happy Birthday my friend!!!

Church was goated. Our friend we had met on Monday 顾先生 came, loved it. Also turns out he is old friends with one of the members. Then one of our yellow dots pulled up with her whole family, so that was flippin' epic! And me and Elder Barnes got to give talks. My 10 minute talk turned into a 20+ minute talk.. Whoops... Who knew I could be such a yapper. We also got a non-active member there, and she was fellowshipped and swarmed which was super cool to see. Ran into the goat Huang Qing Fa randomly. Then had dinner with 叶姐妹 and her family. It was so much fun. That family is so great! BanBan gave his departing testimony on the mission call, farewell type beat.

Monday was good good good. The day consisted of a lot of weekly planning whilst 晒黑ing. Lovely. Huang Qing Fa took us out to the same restaurant he did on Monday, and it was still just as bomb. Bro bought Elder Barnes this random pill for his stomach, then proceeded to give me a bottle. So whenever I have a moment of disaster I've got the ancient medicine to help protect me. He's such an angle though! Did math with Annie and Caroline, but they actually did math this time, who knew incentives worked so much... Then finished the night with planning. We lowkey watched a whole soccer practice (miss the boys) and just talked. BanBan will be missed.

Today was great. Had temple p-day which was great. Got faded up. And hooped up. BALL4LIFE. Don't worry Seth, we ballin'. Then had such a wonderful picnic with Vivi and her family. She also had us bring our friends, so we brought Li and Han弟兄 it was so much fun. Haven't had a picnic in like 9 months, so it was nice.

All around life is just going great. Even though not everything worked out just as planned this week, my stomach was just as happy. Being an assassin is lowkey kinda fun. So blessed.

Also transfer news dropped. I'm staying and 小汤長老 is pulling up. Elder Thompson. In Chinese work we've got what we call the furious 5. Elder Barnes, Elder Flake, Elder On, Elder Fankhauser, and Elder Thompson. They all go home this and next transfer. After Elder Tompy, I'll have much wisdom

But ya

Coodoes

In my talk I focused it on sacrament and why it's the most important thing we can do in any given week 没有之一

"Behold the Lamb of God" Elder Holland-

Brothers and sisters, this hour ordained of the Lord is the most sacred hour of our week. By commandment, we gather for the most universally received ordinance in the Church. It is in memory of Him who asked if the cup He was about to drink could pass, only to press on because He knew that for our sake it could not pass. It will help us if we remember that a symbol of that cup is slowly making its way down the row toward us at the hand of an 11- or 12-year-old deacon.