CRAZY FANTASTIC!

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 :)