"a glorious day"

well here are a few pics! my new haircut (you've already seen it, but thought you may want a digital copy). i'm loving it! so easy to do. then there's the baptism!! family it was a glorious day :) their confirmations in sacrament meeting were really powerful! we had a couple last minute almost-disasters. we couldn't find a suit large enough to fit rosemary. the day of we were traveling down to enumclaw because there was rumor of a 4x large down there. it took us a while to find it but we did!! after that everything went smoothly. pres and sister moffat came! sis bush and i sang i know that my redeemer lives and the spirit was very strong. i couldn't help but get a little teary when the bishop said "that simple ordinance sure means a lot to john and rosemary." they're not in the best of health (rosemary has parkinsons and john has diabetes) so we were praying everything would go well in the font. it means more when it's physically difficult ya know? they kept talking about how it was the first day of the rest of their lives :) ah i love them so much. it's been such a blessing to have been involved in the entire teaching process. and in a year when they go to the temple, i'll get to go!

the last 2 pics are just a couple from the car which we have a million of haha.

but yeah john and rosemary are by far the highlight of the week! now we are praying that the ward will take them in and take care of them after we're all gone. they already have great fellowship with a few couples that we've included in the teaching, but we want the whole ward to get to know them. we didn't have as many come to the baptism as we would have liked, but it is summer and people are super busy. being a missionary makes you appreciate home and visiting teaching on a whole new level! i don't think we always remember the importance of it. that's my little plug for y'all to do your home and visiting teaching :) EVERYONE needs it.

after reading it over i feel like i did a really bad job of expressing what a wonderful weekend it was! the best of my mission so far :) so much joy. one of those days where you realize you wouldn't be ANYWHERE other than here. i'm so blessed to be here. it's hard to convey things like that when you're emailing fast. but i know i will love john and rosemary forever. just thought i should express that better :)