Elder Baird's Something About Socks: WEEK 59 MUZHA: So how big of a sin is lying...? Cause I may or may not of committed that sin.... But it wasn't on purpose you know? So.... Ignorance is bliss. And sinning in ignorance is.... Still sinning... That didn't rhyme. Oh well.

Welcome back to the crib. I'm currently eating breakfast. Chocolate. P-day breakfast is kinda like that. We get to watch a devotional from Elder Renlund today so that is way cool!

So this might be a little shorter. Also just not a ton happened this week.

I feel like whenever I say it's gonna be short I still somehow find a way to keep blabbing until it's just really long and unreadable. So yah.

Let's start on Monday. If you've been following along at home then you know that in my last email you heard that Elder Baird was confused about what was going on in his life and then he found out he was getting a trainee.

And that's when the lie comes in.

That evening as I had hit the send button on my email I also texted our mission head quarters asking for a new desk.

Because we were going to get a new companion and that would make us 3 people and we only had 2 desks so obviously we were going to need a new desk.

Duh.

Well....

After I sent that text my companion looks up (he was in the group chat so he saw what I had sent because that's what you do as companions) and says "you might want to unsend that.... We aren't going to need a new desk..."

And that's when my life crumbled.

So turns out I'm getting emergency transfered. Once our new companion gets out of quarantine (a week from right now)

I will be leaving to who knows where.

So yah. That was pretty wild. And so this whole week has been helping my companion get ready to Grey wash the area. He's got less than 2 weeks to get as much info about this place as possible.

So next time you hear from me I will be in.... Well who knows where I will be. President says that he doesn't know either. So that is quite odd. But hopefully by next Monday they will tell me where I'm going. Maybe I'll just be a hobo missionary. Who knows.

Anyways, the whole week was speant biking around everywhere showing Elder Zhao the whole area because we aren't going to have a lot of time next week... Sad times.

However....

Our Friend got baptized this week!!!!! How exciting! After 5 months and dozens of lessons Jian Yuan has now entered into Covenant with God to always remember Jesus Christ to keep his commandments and to stand as a witness of him.

I had the opportunity to speak at his baptism. And I was just able to look into the importance of baptism and the Holy Ghost just a little deeper.

And guys! How amazing is it that for just keeping some commandments that would bless our lives regardless, God gives us a personal messanger that can always be with us and always direct us. The gift of the Holy Ghost is amazing.

And to my knowledge, I may be wrong seeing as how I am not religion scholar, The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints is the only Church that believes on the laying on of hands to receive the gift of the Holy Ghost. To have the opportunity to have the presence of a member of the God head at all times.

This is literally taught in the Bible and yet it is not practiced today except in God's one and only true and living church. The original church of Jesus Christ that has been restored in our days.

And oh how we should be so happy for this opportunity! To keep this Covenant that we make at baptism and always have this gift. And if we haven't made this covenant yet? Come and learn! See for yourself why we claim to be the one and only true and living church! Come and learn! Throw away your pride and see for yourself. You have your agency of course, but oh the joy that awaits you if only you try.

And if you are currently not keeping these covenants? Come back! We need you! I need you! And most importantly, your Father in Heaven, our God, the creator of the universe and director of the stars, loves you and needs you. Make the changes that need to be made. Through the Atonement of Jesus Christ we can be saved! So come back! Feel the cleansing and purifying affect of the Holy Ghost again! Come and feast on the love of God which is more delicious and desirable above all else in this life! Come today.

It's true.

That's about all I am able to say about it!

Anyways, Yall will hear from me next week! I'll just be in another part of Taiwan, but you can hear about it all right here from me! The Elder Baird

Love you all!

Elder Baird

Something about socks (the one from last week that I didn't have time to do!) (Also this week's cause I'm just gonna use it for here)

OOOOOOHHHHKKKAAAAYYYYY

Do we have a prophet or what?

Yah I don't have time to finish this....

You'll just have to wait till next week!

Pictures!