10/19/15 Photo Blitz and TAG

 Sister Joseph came to church again!! Yay! Testimony of conference

right there. You get someone to come to General Conference and they
start progressing. She has now been to church three time, loves it, is
reading and praying on her own and starting to make friends in ward,
as well as want her grandkids to be more spiritually involved. While
she is progressing, it'll probably still take her a while to learn all
she needs to to be baptized. She's a talker :) We probably teach two
principles a lesson because she talks a lot and she wants to
thoroughly understand, and we can only meet once a week because she
works. But she is so sincere and really applies what we teach, so we
love her to bits :)

We've also been working with the two sets of elders in our ward on a
Photo Blitz. We have lists of all the members of the ward and know the
names of everyone in it. Tell us a name and we usually can tell you if
they are active, less active, or do not contact. However, put us in a
sacrament meeting, and we know about a forth of the ward. We know
names but are terrible putting those to faces. As missionaries, we are
in and out of wards, and yet are supposed to know everybody within a
month! Best of luck. But now, da da da daaaa! We have iPads with
cameras! What we've been doing is trying to take pictures of everyone
in the ward. Take pictures with every family we visit, and put
together a photo directory! It's taking a while, but it's brilliant
and we can get to know the ward a ton faster and help out all the new
incoming missionaries. It's hard to know if a nonmember walks into the
chapel if we don't know all the members. LDS Tools is great, but no
one has their pictures on it, and even if they do we can only see them
if we have Internet.

Also, the baptism didn't go through this past week, but it'll happen
this week instead. And we found a way to help the 9 year old girl get
more comfortable around the scary giant 6'5'' and 6'6" elders who are
making the baptism seem terrifying. Tag. We gang pressed them into
playing a game of tag with her, us, and five other little kids while
her mom was in her baptismal interview. It. Was. Hilarious. Neither of
them wanted to do it :) It was great :) But, but the end, everyone was
happy and she was comfortable and even picking on them. T'was fabulous.
Plus, mom passed her interview.

Love ya'll!
Sister Garver