Omasayin and a Brown Trio

Hello everyone once again from Laurel, MD!

So this was a very good week! For one, we had transfers on Wednesday

and Elder Talbot and I are continuing to stay together and received

Elder Brown (who was actually trained by Elder Sorensen immediately

after I left White Plains the first time, so that's really cool!).

Elder Brown is from Richfield, Utah (thus continuing and concluding my

trend of having only companions from Utah for periods longer than two

weeks) and is super awesome! The three of us get along super well and

are very excited for these next weeks together. "Why did we get put in

a trio?" You ask? Well, as it turns out, I will be heading home on

July 12th, which happens to be smack-dab in the middle of next

transfer. So in order to allow for a smoother transition when I leave

the area, I will be in a trio for the last eight weeks of my mission,

which is pretty crazy that I've hit that point already!

Anywho, we started off our transfer in a trio by performing some

service for our Ward mission leader by helping them lay some rocks and

cement for a pond they were renovating in their back yard. Which was

really fun, but hot, muddy, and exhausting (supposedly, the weather

got up to almost 90 that day so we couldn't have picked a better time

to be out working on a project like that if we tried!).

Friday, we were able to meet with Christiana again and teach her some

more of the Commandments! The lesson went great as always and we were

even able to put her on date to be baptized on June 11th (though that

date might need to be bumped forward or backward a week because of her

work schedule). I am SUPER excited to have had and to continue to have

the opportunity to see how the Gospel is blessing her life and see her

enter the waters of baptism!

Saturday, we helped a family that was investigating the church move

out of their apartment, which was also really good! Thankfully, we had

a rainstorm the night before so the weather was much cooler that day!

That night, we had Ward Correlation with Brother Taylor, the Ward

Mission Leader and also said our goodbyes to them as they are moving

this week to Tennessee, which is really sad. They will be greatly

missed!

The good news though, speaking of baptism, is that the Taylors were

there yesterday for a last hurrah to see Omosayin get baptized! There

was an amazing service with a great turnout and overall it was super

awesome! What was even cooler (for me at least) was that Omosayin

actually asked me to baptize him, so I had the wonderful opportunity

of doing that! It truly was amazing to be able to help Omosayin make

that first covenant with Heavenly Father that will help him on his

path towards returning to the presence of God!

That night, we had another great experience in teaching Melanie, a

woman who was referred to us by missionaries from another language

program that tracked into her. We were able to teach her the

Restoration and had an amazing visit with her! She is super excited

for our next visit where we will talk more about how we can be with

our families forever! We are very excited to continue meeting with her

as well!

I love you all! Have a fantastic week!

Sincerely,

Elder Sam Williams

8301 Ashford Blvd #606

Laurel, MD, 20707

We love the Taylors.

Omasayin's baptism