The Power of the Holy Ghost

How is it going my fellow blog readers (all 6 of you)! This last week of July was an eventful one again. Our mission baptized a high number of people this month. In the 80's once again. Our goal seems to always be at 100 but we just seem to miss it each time the opportunity comes around. I have two full months left on my mission either this month or next I want to see 100 convert baptism in one month in the Seattle Washington Mission.

This week we had two baptism. Jennifer Johnson in the Bellevue 1st ward and Scott Carins in the Bellevue 8th (YSA) ward. They both enjoyed their service and church this past Sunday. After Jennifer received the Holy Ghost , she was so happy and joyful. I wish every member in the church could see the joy that comes from conversion and that wickedness never was happiness.

This week we also received some awesome news! Coming to the Seattle Washington Mission starting October 1st is a mormon.org MEDIA BLITZ!! Imagine every taxi, bus, billboard, t.v commercial, local ads, news papers, and vendors. We are the second mission in the world to have a media blitz which is completely different than some advertising here and there. A media blitz is EVERYWHERE in our mission boundaries. How exciting this will be. Whatever our mission is lacking to achieve its goal of 1000 convert baptisms, this will take it there. They started the media blitz in the New York New York mission due to the Book Of Mormon play on Broadway. I assume they are doing it here, far on the west coast, because New York is far on the east coast. Maybe the church wants to start on each side of the country and work inward.

I can see a lot of exciting things coming from this. We are also working closely with Facebook.

When the prophecy came about that we needed to be in all the world, it never said physically. I feel the Internet is one way to accomplish this design. I am always excited to be a missionary but its going to be interesting what happens within the next two years. Till next week....

Elder Bottema