Yankton #10

Hey everyone! Has it already been 10 weeks? Time flies on a mission. 

Our friend Luke was baptized this week!! He got an amazing opportunity to see his family, but wanted to be baptized before he left! So we had a small baptismal service and it was so cool. Luke doesn't show tons of emotion very often, but from the moment he took his mask off to be baptized until he left he was smiling ear to ear. He absolutely loved it and we were able to give him the gift of the holy Ghost and the Aaronic Priesthood as well! It was such a special experience and the spirit was definitely present.

We also delivered groceries to a boat. The people we delivered them to were definitely very high and one of them immediately started telling us about her anger problems and the time she's spent in jail and how she just wants to kill people sometimes... and just going on and on. It was quite the conversation. Apparently they had been just kind of left to live on the boat until they become fat and sober. And then they just randomly showed up when we were studying outside a couple days later! We're going to start teaching the other guy because he seems super interested! And they're sober now so that's a definite plus as well. 

I just read alma 41:7 and it says, "...they are their own judges, whether to do good or do evil." I think that is so cool. We hear about how we will be judged at the last day, but really we are judging ourselves right now. Are we doing good or evil? This judgement is constant and as we continually strive to be better, we won't need to be worried about the final judgement, because we've already been doing righteousness upon the earth. Not sure if that made sense, but I thought it was way cool! 

I hope you all have the best week ever!!

Love, 

Elder Olsen