This has been a wonderful day. As planned, this morning Private Welch was baptized a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. It is always an inspirational event to witness a baptism. The baptismal service was conducted by Brother Stock our ward mission leader; Bishop Adams presided. Brother Estep spoke for a few minutes on the ordinance of Baptism and Elder Gowans spoke on the subject of the Holy Ghost. After the baptism was completed we all drove out to Fort Gordon and ate pizzas and had a great visit with all who came out. Brother Welch had 3 other nonmember solders who came out with him. They all seemed to have a wonderful time, We invited them to come out to church tomorrow. We pray they will come.

This afternoon we received an urgent call from Elder Angel saying that his companion, Elder Tonga had split out his pants. So we took our little sewing kit and drove out to find them where they had been working. We found them and we gave Elder Tonga a pair of shorts to put on while Sister Gowans sewed up the seam of his pants. We left them in better spirits and took off to go to Fort Gordon.

We dropped in on Sister Miller and had a  nice visit with her, then we went to find our 6pm appointment. We found their home and had a nice visit with a family who we found out has roots in Star Valley, WY, the home of my mother. At the end of our visit we always try to leave them with a scriptural thought; we are always  amazed at how the Holy Ghost inspires us with the correct message to leave with them. This is truly God's work! We are enjoying every minute.