Jul 03rd, 2017

Hi Everyone!,
I hope everyone had an awesome week! We had such a busy week. We had our final Zone Conference with President and Sister Clark. It was such a bitter sweet meeting! They gave their final trainings and encouraged us to always be worthy to hold a temple recommend. They said if we did and attended as often as possible we would have a life full of Joy. They then took pictures with each of us and gave out their autographs haha. 

We got to go to the Temple with my last zone the Porterville Zone and I loved it! The temple is truly amazing. It is a place of peace and pure love!

We have all been anticipating the new mission presidents arrival though! Funny story... story of The Adventures of Hermana's Malpica and Pachner. Okay so, we had a MIRACLE BAPTISM! 

 Here is how it went preparing for it though... So here we were innocent missionaries getting to the Hanford Stake Building an hour early to turn on the font and set up the chairs and programs. We get there and open the doors to the font and two cockroaches, okay not a big deal we kill them. Then we go to turn on the water and 10 MORE come out and at this point they are running up and all around the font. We call the Hanford Elders, (our District Leader) and ask them what to do to kill them. They are in Selma and start laughing saying to bleach them and they will come as soon as possible. It is a church building, they do NOT have bleach haha! We had to use like a 409 and we kept killing them. Then we turn back on the water and 10 MORE come up. At this point we have exceeded counted 25 cockroaches and they are getting bigger by the second! We started screaming at this point, the font had chemicals all in it and it was 6:30! Our baptism was at 7! Wesley then shows up (the one getting baptized) with his family and asks for us to open the doors. I start freaking out because the water hasn't even been started and we were waiting for them all to die in these chemicals. So I run and say, "Uh Wesley we have a surprise for you and you have to wait there!" then I ran back in and shut the font doors. Then he was able to come in.. Lets see once they die we quick plug the font and turn on the water. This point the font is SUPER bubbly, we drained it then did it again, about 3 times. Finally it is 7 and we JUST turned on the water at 7 though.We barely had any water good thing he is small and the water had bubbles but he liked it. Haha. BUT Guess who walks in!??? When there are 3 other baptisms that night all around the southern zones?? PRESIDENT MACKAY AND HIS WIFE!

Hahaha at this point we were both sweaty and tired. Also Sister Malpica had no time to prepare her talk on the Spirit so stressed! He smiles and we meet him and it all turned out in the end. Our Mission President is a Night and Day difference from the last. He is so much more layed back and has 4 girls around our ages. They are pretty young and super funny. I am SOO excited to serve under their direction! We get to formally meet them this next Wednesday! WAHOO! 

 
Anyways, such a good week! We are so happy. We have some more investigators really progressing towards baptism as well. We have another on the 15th for TJ! We are so excited. Love you all and thanks so much for all you do! Have a great week!

Love you all!
Hermana Pachner