Dear Family,
Happy Easter.
Of course this means that I am fast approaching my year mark. There are lots of things that have passed through my mind, and yet will. I try not to think about it, so here was my week.
Easter Pageant. The largest Easter Pageant I have ever seen. The whole stage is 4-500 feet across with a full lighting system built into the temple grounds. Everything is done top notch. When you watch the show it is pretty cool, because almost everything is made as realistic as possible. During the baptism of Christ they actually have a pool of water where they dunk the actors in. Then my favorite part was when they are leading Christ to Pilate they used real torches. Pretty intense as you watch some 30 actors with fire run across the stage. For one of the shows we spent the whole time on the back, back seats. Then the other time we watched it we got 3 rows back and got to enjoy the whole production. It's pretty impressive how many people actually come out to watch the show. There is a good 4000 plus. Imagine if all the church buildings in the area brought their folding metal chairs, and that's how many there were.
We didn't have our baptism this weekend like we had planned. The Grandpa who was going to do the baptism got sick, so we'll be trying to do it this weekend.
The members we live with have this really old dog named Rosco. We've been spending a lot of time getting to know him whenever we are at home. Last week Sister L told us that they were going to put him down this week. I'll be sad, because he was just starting to get comfortable with both of us. It'll be hard to not have him around.
Elder Conaway is a trooper. For several weeks now we've been still working on our bikes, and he still has intense pain in his knees. We went to therapy this morning, and as he was doing one exercise his whole knee just shook like there was an explosion inside. He toughed it out. If he needs surgery he won't be staying in the field, which will be really sad. On the bright side he might just have severe pain and no tear. If that's the case then he'll be able to stay. It would just mean that Elder Conaway would feel like a wimp (his own words).
So the reason we didn't email yesterday is because 16 missionaries went on a hike. It was a really fun hike called four peaks. There were a couple parts that some Elders started running to get to the top. When you are about 300 feet from the top of the mountain, there's a part called the saddle. It is an almost vertical ascent to the very top. All the missionaries who chose to try and make it up did. It was really cool to see everyone make it. On the top of the peak we had lunch and enjoyed a good rest before going back down. The climb down was tricky as we coached a few of the less experienced missionaries down the crack. We all made it down, and there weren't any injuries. We had a professional photographer go with us, and I'll get the link for the pictures.
All in all a really good week. We met all our goals except in the finding and baptizing area. Our mission is making a really big push to double the number of baptisms by the end of may. It will be a really fast couple months.
I love you all and hope that everyone is healthy,
Elder Will Davidson
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