Share the video - Amen

(Editor's note: we told Maggie that we posted her picture on the church bulletin board.)

LOL mom!!!!!! hahahahah
Did you use that huge 8X10 picture??? That was wayyy tooo big!! If you put ANY pictures up of me on the bulletin board at church, you HAVE to put something by it encouraging member-missionary work. I think that our ward NEEDS a lot more work on that!!!!  I will be launching efforts towards that as soon as I step off the plane! I don't think that as members of the church, that we realize how incredibly important, influential and beneficial member-missionary work truly is!!! People will become socially converted LONGGGGG before they become spiritually converted!!! And besides, we as missionaries, will never be able to find, teach, or convert ANYONE with out vast amounts of help from the members. The Lord is hastening his work, and that doesn't just mean for missionaries. It means for members as well. If you never said hello to a new face at church before. Do it. If you never had an investigator over to your house. Do it. If you've never had the missionaries over for dinner. Do it. If you've never gone out with the missionaries before. Do it. If you have never given the missionaries a referral or introduced them to any of your friends before. Do it!!!! That's what hastening the work really means!!! It means doing things that you have NEVER done before!!!
Mom, the church has just launched a new video that they have been playing in times square all Black Friday long. Yes, the church bought ad minutes in times square just to share this video with as many people as possible! It is called "He is the Gift" it is on Mormon.org, it is on lds.org, it is even on youtube!!!! I invite the Carnahans, as a family, to share this video with as many people as you possibly can this month!!!! It is a two minute Christmas video, it has no crazy doctrine in it. The only doctrine it holds is the doctrine that Jesus Loves us and that God loves us. As missionaries, we are required to show this video to 10 people a day, for the entire month of December!!!!! That is pretty dang difficult without any ipads!!!! But guess what??? You all have computers, phones, ipads. You have sooooo much more access to this video and you all need to be using that privilege, by sharing this video!!! It needs to be big. Share it in your offices. Show it to friends!!! Seriously. YOU NEED TO BE SHARING THIS VIDEO!!!!!!!! Share it on facebook! idc. Share the video.

By the way, mom, the socks were purple. :] Love you!
Share the video.
Amen
Maggie :]

Joy's brother sang!

Here is Joy and her brother who came to the baptism. He even sang at it! It was.... VERY interesting!! but he had a wonderful voice and marvelous piano skills. It was just a very... typical, passionate, Baptist sounding song!!! Everyone adored him and Joy and just embraced them both! And her brother and her brother's female friend that came, agreed to meet with the missionaries up in
Dayton where they live and even took home a Book of Mormon!!!!! They loved the baptism so much!!!!

The very best picture of the whole night!!! Joy and her brother, and the Mormon missionaries who changed her life! :P

Oh, what Joy!

Joy was soooooo nervous, she called Sister King and me about every hour, sometimes even twice an hour for about 34 hours before her baptism!! I felt really bad for her, but I understood. She lives alone, and she was sitting in her quiet house alone and satan was really working on her. She didn't have anyone for any kind of comfort or moral support. So I didn't mind her calling us so much. She needed us during that time. She really did. So sister King and I bought her some flowers from Kroger, cleaned out an old spaghetti sauce jar, and,then I found a white tule ribbon on some Christmas decorations in the closet and tied it around and made it so pretty. It was to remind her of the first time she got baptized when she was 12 into the Baptist,church. She told us that she had a big lace bow in her hair. So I thought it worked perfectly!! Also, we bought a white flower for her jumpsuit to "pretty it up" because she wanted to wear a dress for her baptism and she didn't like the jumpsuit she thought it was ugly so we bought the flower to put on it to make it prettier :P

Joy got baptized!!!!!! It has been such a long time coming!! This has

been the epitome of my mission so far. The crowning event. The most

glorious moment. It was unexplainable and undeniable! Absolutely the

greatest thing that's ever happened to me!!!