- Elder Baird's #BLESSED Mission: WEEK 51 RICHMOND: *Insert Hallelujah Chorus sfx*

HALLELUJAH

(I'll let that keep playing in your head for a little bit)

(There we go)

So uhh, crazy drop, but ya boys stayin'!!! Some say 5th times a charm, or som!

I'm lowkey so hyped, this place is pretty much at this point, and our friends are just all so goated! Holy! It's just amazing!

Blessed fr

Wednesday was fun, DC and 5 guys. So ain't complaining much there. Always a good time. Met with our new friend 何先生 who I gave a pass-a-long card too, and it's the first miracle that he called back. He's such a chilla, bro glazes Elder Wengert's Chinese it's so funny . Then got another blessed chiropractic appointment. Thanks padre for raising me right o7! Taught Li about the Lord's covenant people, and really went into covenants. Love bro. Then edited a video for like 2 hours, holy it was so annoying, the computers are soooo slowwwww.. Met with our new member and their family. So fun. Had mini mlc, and did our daily scriptures.

Thursday was a finding day grind. Hit the streets, and met some cool people. Unfortunately they weren't Chinese so we had to send them afar, but no worries. We live in abundance Had our two English classes which are always so fun. Such a cool service we get to do.

Friday was fun. Yuh Yuh. Tuahgt Alex and Lisa in the morning, holy both are so locked. Lisa is actually so cool. We had a sacrament lesson with her, and the importance of it. Watched a video and read a lil talk with her, BOOM, spirit literally taught her everything. She understood it sooo perfectly and came to sacrament on Sunday. We hope to put her on date this week. Taught 何先生 again. Had an in person lesson with Li Nan about temples, and it was actually so good. We hope to put her on date this week too :)

Saturday morning we grinded the church invites, and hit some cheeky bench finding. It's actually so goated, you just sit there and talk to people. Sweet! Had a lesson with Li, and we went over the bap interview questions. It was so cool. His testimony has grown so much since the first time we met, and bro's faith is soooo strong and unbreakable rn. Just praying that his situation can finally resolve so bro can get dunked. Went on mini splits with the English missionaries, and went finding...super good time. Came back and taught Michael, and invited bro, he's gonna pick a date this week if he doesn't go back to China.

Sunday was so good! We met with Frank before church, and he's locked in. Church was amazing! We got so many of our friends there and it was an amazing service. So many God-given miracles walked in the doors that day! Met with Anne after church and got everything ready for our temple trip!! Finished the day off with some finding, contacts, and lessons. Yk, the missionary usual.

Monday, grinded weekly planning. This week is gonna be so solid. I'm hyped! Got Lil' Caesars once again. I think we keeping that place in business rn. We go way too much . Had our nightly lessons, and met this super super cool 阿姨 at the park. Hopefully we can get her to pull up to church .

It's actually super cool too! For Richmond zone, the past 6 months, the highest baptisms in a month we've had is 3. This week we had 6, and in total for the month of August we've had 9. It's just so cool and a testimony to me that God's work will be done. He loves all of us too much to not push forward this work. So many cool cool miracles this mission is seeing!

And finally today! Today was sooo blessed. Morning found out I'm staying and running it back with Elder Wengert. It's lock-in time Then went to the temple with Anne and two of our members. It was so amazing. I love the temple so much. My testimony of the House of the Lord has grown so much out here. 10/10 would recommend. Played pickleball, and went out to sushi with our Turkish friend, Ibrahim. So fire . Love bro. He's been a day one English class bestie. Then had a lesson with Lotus and Armstrong! Did our daily scriptures studies, and went to English class.

Overall

Just an absolute goated week

During church this week, we had a high counselor come and speak. And these were the notes I took:

(I have no idea if this even makes sense )

Sometimes we will be looking for the fruit. But the Lord is working on the flowers. We want the end result right away, but if that was the case, it would be gross, not ripe, and inedible. But the bees need to go to work, flower by flower. Let the Lord work on the flowers that the fruit might be plentiful and delicious.

We water, we fertilize, we give it sun. And that's it. Let the Lord do His work, as we do all we can do, He will give the increase.

So ya...

Let the bees cook