Hello!
How was your guys week? Mine has been great. I confirmed James
yesterday, it was a special experience. He may only be 8 years old, but
his knowledge of the gospel is stronger than when I was 8! He reads the
scriptures every day with his mom, and knows the plan of salvation like
the back of his hand. It's crazy, he's only known about the church for 2
weeks. Now we're just working on his dad. We had a lesson yesterday
with the family and before the lesson started James blurted out, "I
committed him to not drink coffee this week, but he drank it yesterday!
He can't be baptized yet." Haha. It was so funny. His dad has a goal to
be baptized on the 17th of this month. He wants to be joined together
with his family, he just has a hard time believing in God. Speaking of
which, we're teaching another lady right now, Duan H__, who is very
special to me. Definitely one of my favorite investigators. I don't
remember if I've told you about her. The first time she came to church
she was really scared and had a bad feeling in her heart the whole time.
The lesson after that she cried the whole time because she just felt to
uncomfortable and bad inside. I even cried a little in that lesson, I
just couldn't understand why she would feel that way in God's church.
But for some reason she keeps coming back, so there is a reason there
even deeper than she understands herself. She's come to church 2 or 3
times since then, and has seemed to lighten up, and her 6 year old son
is attached to us. She told us yesterday that we're her only friends in
America, she has really struggled to adjust to American life. She
doesn't believe there is a God right now, but she has such a strong
desire to know. We talked all about the "seed" in Alma 32 with her
yesterday, she's definitely progressing from when she started.
I had a really special priviledge this week of interviewing a
lady, Rona, for baptism this week. She has an incredible story. The
first time she took the missionary lessons was when she was 18, because
she was dating a mormon at the time. She was going to be baptized, but
her mother was very against it. Time passed, she got married to someone
else and had a daughter. When her daughter was 18, she took the
missionary lessons and was baptized. Rona felt inclined to learn again,
but seeing her mom almost have a heart attack about Rona's daughter
getting baptized, she didn't want to do it. Then, in 1991, some
missionaries knocked on her door. She decided it was a sign, so she met
with them often. She studied with them for a long time, but decided she
couldn't hurt her mother. About 3 months ago, her 16 year old
granddaughter was baptized. After seeing her daughter change, she
decided it was time. Now 62 years old, she started meeting with the
missionaries again. She was baptized on June 3rd. The missionary that
baptized her was baptized on June 3rd, 12 years ago, and it was his very
first baptism. Miracle! An absolute miracle. So much preparation has
taken place for that family of 3 generations to be joined together in
the gospel.
I love you guys! Have another good week!
