Arjun, The Guitar Master

I hope everyone had an amazing Christmas and has a Happy New Year! I had the opportunity to Skype my family!! It was so amazing and I am so grateful for them and all that they do for me. Christmas is always an amazing time of the year and Christmas spirit brings so much joy and happiness in a lot of ways. Most importantly the birth of Jesus Christ. The Savior Jesus Christ offers us so many gifts and I am grateful for that. 

The highlight of my week was definitely skyping my family!! That was the best Christmas present this year for sure. I had to wake up super super early because of the time difference between India and America but we made it work and I got to catch up on my sleep afterwards at our next appointment, don't worry! (; (This is just a joke by the way, we didn't actually fall asleep at our appointment okay dad)

Well, this week was a good week! We had zone conference so that means President and Sister Mortensen got on a plane and flew out to Chennai to see our zone. It was a really good zone conference and I learned a lot. It was good to see the whole zone and hear about the success from our Light The World efforts. Miracles happened and we hope to continue to serve others throughout the whole year. A few missionaries are about to go home this week including one in my apartment and we got to hear each others testimonies and the spirit was super strong. 

On Saturday, we were super busy. We scheduled to meet with six families and ended up meeting with SEVEN! It was a really good day. We ended up meeting with/teaching about 32 people that day. The work here is up and running and I am loving it. The best appointment we had this day was with a (not so) little guy named Arjun. He is 14 years old but he is like 6 feet tall. I met him in an auto and gave him a Light The World pass along card. He went home and immediately watched the videos at lighttheworld.org and then called me back!! Since then, he has called me about 10 times just to say hi and see how we are doing. We went to his home and his mom made us some lunch and we visited with him and his mom and his grandma and even his great grandma! They all live together, all 4 generations. Anyway, Arjun's mom was pretty excited when we got there. She said, "Wow!! It is so good to meet you guys. Arjun hasn't stopped talking about you. I don't know what magic you did to him but he talks all the time now. He has no real friends, just bad friends in his life. Since he met you guys, he tells me you are his good friends!! I almost didn't believe it but here you are!" hahahah she was ecstatic, it was so cool. Then, Arjun BLEW OUR MINDS. He pulled out his guitar and I am convinced that he is the best guitar player in India. Like, the difficulty levels on Guitar Hero would go like this: Easy, Medium, Hard, Expert, then Arjun. Okay, I wanted to get a video but he said next time we can. So, hopefully I will send a video next week.

I love you all, thanks for all the support and prayers. Happy New Years!

Love, Elder Baker

Arjun, The Guitar Master

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