Elder Gavin Batman

Photo Album: https://photos.app.goo.gl/QuW5JQQJL6emqhb68 We had the NFL Draft this weekend in Pittsburgh and it was wild. Since we are the Northside Elders we are in the deep end of it all. All the roads, major highways, and freeways were completely closed off to go to downtown. There were hundreds of thousands of people flooding downtown, specifically the areas near Point Park and the Steelers Stadium. Everywhere else was pretty normal and wasn't that busy. It was definitely hard to find people in the midst of it all since most of them were tourists. After church on sunday I had the amazing opportunity to be a groomsmen with the AP's at one of their friend's wedding. All I can say is what an experience. It was all black people and we were the only groomsmen, sticking out like a sore thumb lol. Pictures coming soon... This week was slow since we weren't able to be in our area that much due to some blitz's and the draft. Up until friday we had around 5 finds fo...

Photo Album: https://photos.app.goo.gl/QuW5JQQJL6emqhb68 Our friend Isabella got baptized on sunday!!! It was so awesome. The Pittsburgh ward had 2 baptisms on sunday: Isabella and Dalanea (Morningside's Friend). We also had another baptism in the young adult ward for the STL's. Pittsburgh ward on top. I had the opportunity to give Isabella the Holy Ghost, the spirit was so strong. Afterward her and her mom (Dashun) called and thanked us also asking what was our favorite candy for a gift. God is good. On Thursday we had another exchange with the AP's and I was with Elder Hadley again. We had such a blessed day. We knocked some project housing and found some ladies named Naomi and Bre. We had a funny experience knocking where we knocked into this guy named Mychal Daniel David Watson. He was most likely drunk, but we had an amazing conversation with him about the book of mormon and how it testifies of christ, and baptism. He wants himself and his teenage daughter to be ba...

Photo Album: https://photos.app.goo.gl/QuW5JQQJL6emqhb68 We had Transfers this week and I'm gonna be staying with Elder Heelis in Northside. I definitely expected it and am excited for another with him because he's awesome and there is more work for us to do together. Northside is so blessed and I will probably be here a few more transfers. This week was so fruitful for us we had 3 people come to church. We had Isabella and her "god sister" come to church. Isabella is still looking awesome for the 19th for baptism, please pray for her. She's loving church and is literally already a missionary. We also had a lady named Tika who had been talked with in the past who we called randomly and she came! She didn't like it... How we don't have a set pastor. Oh well, God is so good in Northside right now. We had a baptism interview with one of the stl's friends named Emma inside her sorority house. It was so funny to be in there and to do the interview in...

Not much happened this week, just a good week of hard work. On thursday we had an exchange with southside and I was with Elder Canfield. We had a great day. We talked this awesome kid downtown named Devin who was around our age. He was with the save the children charity group talking to people like us. He was super interested in our message especially in the Book of Mormon. We gave both him and his friend a copy and set up a time for a church tour. We also had a great lesson with our friend on date for baptism Isabella. We taught her the plan of salvation using a simple video, she loved it. Unfortunately she didn't make it to the church for conference and so we had to move her date back to the 19th. Elder Canfield is an awesome elder and we found lots of success together. We had a cool miracle happen on friday with our new friend William. We originally planned our day by going and stopping by referrals then heading downtown to talk to people. Elder Heelis had the impression to s...