This week was one of the best of my entire mission! There was so much and so many miracles that happened and I am only going to be able to touch on a few of them!
The first one is a cool experience we had with our
investigators Dede and Lexi. The Elders have been working with them and their
family for a while now. They have been talking about baptism for a long time
but they were nervous about it and didn't know what to expect. Well this
Saturday we were able to arrange for them to come and see a baptism. It was a
cool experience! They were sitting by us and super attentive and excited the
whole time and when they saw the other girl comes up out of the water they got even
more excited! Afterword’s we were talking with them and we asked them what they
thought and they both said the same thing. "That girl had the biggest
smile when we she came up out of the water! She looked so happy! I want that!
When can we get baptized?" It was super cool! They are so gung-ho about it
now it is wonderful! They will be baptized on the 30th and we are looking
forward to that!
We had a cool lesson with Laurene this week! She is doing
super well, she had read through 1 Nephi 13 in a week and I am excited to see
where she is at this Tuesday when we meet with her! The lesson last week was
cool! She feels that the Book of Mormon is true! She feels that this is where
she needs to be! There are some problems in her family life that need to be worked
out before she can really start progressing but she is great! She had talked
with our Bishop and he told us that she already considers herself a Mormon!
One of the cool things this week is we were able to have 7
investigators come to church on Sunday!! That is so cool! Most of the time 2 or
3 is a real good week! And what a week to come! Karli Lewis gave her farewell
talk and did a very good job! It was a good meeting!
One of the other really cool experiences was on Friday. The
ASL Branch had their annual Thanksgiving dinner activity. Because I am in the
area they asked if Elder Simpson and I could come to that I could help out and
talk with more people! I got a welcome that I was not expecting at all! They
were all so happy to see me again! There were lots of them that came up and
hugged me and were happy to see us. We helped set up and then we started having
the dinner! It was super good as it always is and we were enjoying ourselves.
Then they had the Spiritual message part, well Elder Stevenson decided to
spring that on me! Ha-ha So I was able to go up and share my testimony and tie
Thanksgiving into the Gospel of Jesus Christ! It was actually really good! I
loved being back there! I love that little branch and it is a huge tender mercy
from the Lord letting me finish my mission so close to where I started and
spent so much time!
The other thing I should mention is an exchange I had this
week. I was able to go work with Elder Hales who is actually a Lancer and even
better, is from my same stake! It was super fun! We were able to have a really
cool day and we had some really cool finding miracles that day. It was also fun
just to talk to someone I knew and knew all of the same people! It was fun!
Well that will be it for this one! See all ya'll way too
soon! Ha-ha
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