The Happenings Of Elder Toph Tribe: Taylor is getting baptized!

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Happy Father's Day to the greatest man I know. He taught me how to love, respect, trust, serve, and work hard. He's my biggest role model and I hope to become half the man he is one day. He has a heart of gold and is always doing things for others. I love you Dad!

Hello family and friends!

Taylor (the girl with Down syndrome) passed her baptismal interview!
She's ready to be baptized on Saturday!!! I am super excited for her!
She goes around and tells everyone that she's going to be baptized so
she can go into the temple. It's so great to see her enthusiasm and
love for the temple.

We got to do service this week! The only down fall was that it was
yard work on the hottest day so far...116 degrees and 3 1/2 hours of
yard work... The man we were doing it for is an elderly man with a
serious foot infection that they believe might take his life. So
that's scary! His neighbor is a member and she informed us that his
pride is in having an up kept yard. It's gotten a little out of
control since he developed the foot infection, so we cleaned it up
while he was at the doctors. We left before he got home, but I hope it
made his day a little brighter.

Our Facebook initiative is in full swing! We're getting our members to
create Mormon.org accounts, and getting them to share them on Facebook
with a picture with the missionaries. This allows them to bare
testimony to multiple people at once and get our faces out to the
people. It's going great so far and we're getting to know more of the
ward.

This week I feel so incredibly blessed. I was having a hard week. A
lot of things weren't going according to plan. This was putting some
added stress and pressure on me to try to make things work they way I
thought they should go. I quickly realized that I needed to stop
fighting and trying to force my will on the situation. I prayed,
stepped back, and miracles happened. It's hard to let go of what you
think is best. It's hard to be willing to take things as they come.
This week my testimony was strengthened that Heavenly Father knows
what needs to happen, and no matter how hard I try, His will will be
accomplished and not mine. Everything worked out better than I
could've hoped. Now Taylor is going to be baptized on time. We were
stressing that it might have to be pushed back. Humility and prayer is
the key to everything. Miracles do happen.

I love you all and hope you have a wonderful week!

-Elder Toph Tribe

Oh I got Naked at the store today.... I think I'm funny 😂 But I love
this stuff! Super good. Mom they're turning me healthy! I now get this
and blackberries as a treat from the store.