What an amazingly fantastic week!!!

Me with Elder Morris just being goofy!

HEY, HEY, HEY!!! Oh my goodness!!! What an amazingly fantastic week!!!

To start I would like to give ya'll and update on (investigator) Rebecca!!!! She is getting baptized!!! Her and her 8-year-old daughter have set a date for Sept 6. Elder Morris and I are overjoyed because she was the very first house we knocked on together and now our little nugget is coming to church, getting baptized, and loving every min of it!! We feel so blessed to have had the opportunity to really become a part of this family's life and share with them the ever-so-sweet message we tell!

I would really like to talk about love... As children of our Heavenly Father, we are given a big charge to love. We are asked that our lives be the proof of his love for his children so that those who may not know about heavenly father can see something different in those that do. 

It is so important that all of us remember that no matter what we say, do, or even believe in this life, if we never learn to love we have nothing. The love of Christ is a lot harder to understand than the world today gives us time to learn. His kind of love is far greater than a hug and a kiss... That's why Jesus went as far as he could to show his love for us. We will never be perfect in this life, but we can sure as heck try! Let our love look like him and what he is made of :)

1 JOHN 4:8

Yesterday we went to a part-member family home. The wife is a active member of the church and her new husband is not a member... and not even very close hahaha. While we were having dinner, laughing, and enjoying each other's company, the husband stopped us for a min and said, "You water buffalo are funny." When he said that I was so confused!!! I had no idea what he meant by "water buffalo," so I asked him. 

Water buffalo take care of each other!

He proceeded to show us this video of a baby water buffalo getting attacked by a lion... just when you think the baby is about to die, a herd of older water buffalo start pushing the lion away, help the baby up and run away with the baby side by side. He then said, "Even though I am not a Mormon, through my experience with Mormons  (and) because of my wife, I have seen that ya'll really do take care of your own and you are always there to help." At that moment I could not have been more proud :)

HECK, YES, WE ARE WATER BUFFALO!!! and DANG PROUD OF IT! The members of our church are united, loving and always there when you need them :) ONE BIG HAPPY FAMILY!

LOVE, LOVE, LOVE,
 ELDER BALCH!