Hello everyone!!!
So, the past few weeks have been
crazy fantastic! We have quite a few
investigators, but most of them are
coming from a family that has
about 5 families as a part. Like they
all married off and stayed super
close. Anyways, two of our
investigators got baptized yesterday!!!
Ashley and Chris. They are super fun!
Ashley's 9 and Chris is 12, and
it was awesome to see them make the
decision to be baptized!
Some people we're working especially
with are Ashley's parents. They
aren't married, and had never even
heard of anything like the law of
chastity. It's been amazing to see
the happiness that has come into
their eyes as they have continued to
accept the gospel. Their names
are Miguel and Marie-Bell. It's an
interesting situation, because
Miguel has a lot of problems with
addictions and such, and has caused
some problems in the past. She wants
to get baptized, but she's not
sure she wants to marry him because
she's not sure he'll change, and
she doesn't want to leave him because
they have 4 kids! But we have
faith that he'll be able to change.
The atonement can do amazing things
when we truly have a desire to
change. I've been able already to see
that in so many lives just in
the past few weeks.
Story time! So while I was on
exchanges last week, my companion and
his companion for the day a lady
named Victoria outside some apartment
buildings. They scheduled a return
appointment for yesterday, and when
we went back, for some reason she
wasn't there! There were some people
sitting in the porch though, so we
started talking. Turns out, the
lady we talked to actually wasn't
named Victoria! One thing we ask
people is who might be able to
benefit from our message. She decided
her mom, Victoria, did, so she just
acted like her mom and set up a
return appointment for her! Haha it
was pretty funny once we figured
that out. We talked to her about
God's plan for us, and it was super
awesome! She was very prepared. Not
with the answers, ha but she was
very receptive to the spirit. The
spirit was way strong!
The baptism! The girl in the white
and the boy with his arm around her
are Ashley and Chris, and the other
guy is Juan Carlos, a convert of
about 5 months. He had the
opportunity to baptize them! So neat for
all of them :)
