New companion and bed bugs

Elder Glanzer is my new companion! We are here in the La Pradera Park
Ward, loving life! Elder Glanzer is 6'4" as well, so we are totally
going to use basketball as a way of street contacting! Don't worry, I
am a 1/4 inch taller than him. I've been taller than all of my
companions. Elder Glanzer is the man though! We are going to have a
great 6 weeks together!

This week we had an encounter with bed bugs. We got in with an
investigator that we haven't been able to teach in a while. We were
super excited! We jumped in and just started to teach. As we got up to
leave, I notice something on Elder Glanzer's arm. We get out and
realize that we are covered in bed bugs!!! Thankfully we have awesome
members. Our members recently just got done fighting bed bugs, so they
had all the stuff to kill them and scare them off! They debugged us
and our van. Those creepy things leave you feeling all sorts of
violated.

We found a couple more new people this week. We have been watching our
investigators drop like crazy. It's sad, but they aren't ready to
progress in the gospel just yet. So we were super excited to find the
new people!

We are having a baptism this weekend for a man named Phillip! He's an
older gentleman, and super prepared for the gospel. A member invited
him to church and its been a miracle since then. Member missionary
work is the best missionary work!! Invite your friends, the worst
thing they can say is no. But just imagine how amazing it's going to
be when they say yes! The greatest thing in the world is watching the
Atonement of Jesus Christ taking place in someone's life.

We got to sit down with our recent convert, Will, and all of the
priests to help him prepare to receive the Aaronic Priesthood. We are
incredibly excited for him!

The ping pong battle has commenced. The Cathcarts, the members I live
with, have just gotten a ping pong table. Today for p-day, we played for 5
hours. It's so much fun! The Cathcart sons and some other YSA members
joined us for some epic ping ponging!

That's the update for the week! I love you all! Have a dandy week!!

-Elder Toph Tribe