Elder Baucom in Virginia

  What is up everyone! Been a good lil bit here in Harrisonburg. Love this area and my guy Elder Mulholland so much it's been awesome.  Since last time I wrote one of these john's the highlight was definitely Yusuf's baptism. It was so awesome to see someone who didn't really even understand Christianity to be bearing powerfull testimony at his baptism. Such a goat. Satan was trying to to prevent his baptism though. We pulled up to the actual font and that thing was so dirty. We had to scrub that thing down and when we were actually filling the font it took about 3 hours for it to fill and when we pulled up to dunk him it was nearly drained. We still baptized him even though there was about a foot of water. Nearly concussed him on the floor but luckily Yusuf is not in the weight room too much so we were able to pull him out before he hit his head. But for sure highlight of the email.  We out here gathering Israel and the only out here in Harrisonburg Israel just looks l...

  What's up everyone! It has been a fortnight since I have written and once again that's on me. But it's been a good lil bit here in Harrisonburg! Hit 6 months as a missionary not too long ago and it was also my mom and Elizabeth Florence's birthday so it's been a very eventful last couple of days. We had some great lessons over the last couple weeks! We had a great couple of ones with our boy Yusuf who's gonna be baptized on the 8th. He plays basketball for his school and when we invited him to play with us at some point he said he needs some good comp if he is gonna actually come. I took that personally Yusuf. Bouta dunk him like Shawn Kemp in a couple weeks though so that's gonna be lit.  We still are teaching our friend Cindy who is literally so awesome. She can't help but ball her eyes out whenever she comes to church and we read 3rd Nephi 11 with her yesterday and that was probably the most spiritual lesson of my mission. Cindy is probably one of t...

 Whats up everyone it has been a minute since I have written an email. My fault. I am still chilling out here in Virginia except now I have been transferred to Harrisonburg. It's a lot further north, it's kinda a smaller city, and the wards here are awesome. I am also training my baby boy Elder Mulholland. He is from American Fork, Utah and is a straight beast. He played basketball for American Fork and at one point guarded and talked to the Cooper Flagg. We have a lot in common so it has actually been a lot of fun doing some missionary work with him. We are now in the 4th week of our transfer and my beautiful boy has already grown so much.  The wards here are awesome. We are covering 2 wards out here is Harrisonburg and both of them have welcomed us so well. I have left 2 meals with members sharing spiritual messages that have dang near made me cry both times. I know whatever friends we bring to church are going to get fellowshipped like nobody's business....

 

  Greetings and Salutations  Just such another amazing week here is Providence, Virginia Beach. (It's pretty but ghetto pretty but rough just like Virginia Beach) Shoutout that one Drake song.  Anyways these last couple weeks have definitely had some ups and downs. We had the awesome opportunity to meet with the Dunmires. They are a family who decided that their kid who is 12 needs to get baptized so they just reached out to us. This was so cool cause we really don't have just random baptism offers like this so we were really excited to meet with them. As we got there the 12 year old was talking about the council of Jerusalem, Paul and Barnabus, and what his favorite Gospel was. We just talked about the Gospel of Jesus Christ like we would with an adult and it went pretty well honestly.  Thanksgiving was so amazing. As missionaries we had our set apart time for personal study and companionship study but outside of that the day was an off day. Our ward had a turkey bo...

  What's up everybody, another good 2 weeks here in Providence, Virginia. Start of me being out of training. Chahooo.  We just recently got the news that our p day has been changed so that it's 11-9 and we have 3 hour weekly planning. We found out that you can actually plan for 3 hours. It was pretty lit actually. Also we have lessons tonight so we kinda just got our p day taken a little bit. So I am speed running this email not gonna lie As we started this transfer we got the news that our car is gone again. So we are back to biking everywhere. It snowed the other day so we are bundled up like the Michelin man just riding round Providence. It's a good time.  We had a zone conference this week where all the missionaries in the southern part of Virginia come together and get fired up. It was really inspiring and there was some really great insights.  We have been teaching some awesome people. We had our friend Kennesha who just rolled up on us after being taught by mi...