Why I served a Mormon Mission Part VIII

As May 19th approached which was my date to enter boot camp I started to have more and more conversations with my Nana about Christ and his gospel.(remember her from my whyIamamormon blog) She was absolutely thrilled about my new found walk with Christ and we had conversations at least once or twice a week about every gospel topic under the sun. I suggested to her that she might want to meet with a few of my friends(aka the elders) who might be able to answer some her questions better than I could. I explained that all they did was study and preach the gospel so they knew a lot more than I did. So she accepted this invitation to hear the gospel and I called the mission office there in Texas and got the phone number to the missionaries in her area. I called them up on the phone and preceded to give them all the information about my Nana. Within a few days they had taught her one lesson and set an appointment for the next one.

My Nana called me through the next few weeks with many questions. Where things really started to get cool was when Nana came out for my graduation from community college. Well I decided I wanted to go out to Texas with my Nana and visit some of my family out there before I went to boot camp so went back to Texas with Nana. She had been meeting with the missionaries since I had sent them her way and on the way out to Texas between Sheena and I we talked a lot with Nana about the restored gospel of Jesus Christ and by the time we arrived in Texas I had committed Nana to get baptized while I was there.

Well Nana called the missionaries and told them that she wanted to be baptized and that she wanted to be baptized before I left for boot camp. Well the missionaries made it happen and I baptized Nana that May there at the ranch by Coleman Texas. Nana was baptized in the pond down by the house in a wonderful little baptismal service where the spirit was bountiful.

After Nana was baptized I only had a few days before it was time for me to leave for boot camp. We drove out to Colorado to meet my mother and Larry at their cabin near Dolores, Colorado. I spent my last few days of civilian life there with my mother and then left to go back to Utah to meet Staff Sergent Keach and leave for boot camp.