Hello everyone! It was an amazing week! Soooo super busy, but amazing!
F. is baptized and confirmed and so excited! The baptism was wonderful; when she came up out of the water she cheered for herself! Her husband came to take pictures. Awesome! We showed the first 10 minutes of "The Restoration". F. bore her testimony at the end of the meeting and her husband was crying! We gave him a chapel tour afterward and then F. fed us dinner, so we were able to talk more. Her husband isn’t a New Investigator yet, but I'm feeling good about this week! :) F. has a huge love for the gospel and for those around her. She will be performing with the ward choir this Sunday and is so excited. Everyone loves her and she is fitting right in.
Ma. is baptized and confirmed as well! Both she and F. were glowing after their confirmation in church on Sunday! I'm so happy that Ma. is baptized and ready to go. Everyone loves her as well!
K., R. and M .came to church yesterday. We had an amazing lesson with them on Saturday right before the baptism. We had two members there that turned out to have crazy similar experiences. It was awesome and the Spirit was so strong.
We taught T. last night and we have another appointment with her Friday. She's introducing us to her boyfriend and his son.
Other highlights:
Christmas Devotional Tuesday. I actually got to talk a lot with Shawn Bradley and I asked him where his daughters by their jeans. Alloy.com or something like that. He said, "Yeah! They have really cute stuff there! Especially jeans!" It was funny how excited he was to share it with me... might have had something to do with how excited I was to find out ;) For the talent show we ended up doing this little skit with chimes and we played “Away in a Manger” at the end. We were both wearing silly hats and I managed to throw in “feliz navidad” and got the mustache in! :) That just had to happen! :)
Our ride was unable to make it to the devotional, so we got a ride there with the Reynoldsburg sisters and basically expected a miracle for our ride home. The Westerville sisters were able to take us to Newark and a member happened to be there picking up her son from a swim meet; she took us the rest of the way. Thank you Heavenly Father!
Wallyball with Bishop's wife on Wednesday; we’ll do it again this week, and she's bringing a friend to introduce to us! :)
We were blessed to find six new investigators this week! Four of those are part of a family of seven (the other family members are too young to count as investigators:) They were a huge miracle and an amazing experience. I had been praying Thursday evening that we could find, teach and baptize all in the same day on Saturday. With the double baptism and other scheduled plans we had about 2 hours of finding time. It was around 6:30 and we'd headed over to a prospective elder’s home to meet/2-2-5 him. It didn't feel right, so we chose a different prospective elder. I accidentally drove past the trailer and had to turn around. I turned left and went to turn left again when I heard a child cry out. It was odd; it was oh so quiet, but also very clear to me. I asked S Richardson if she'd heard it; she hadn't. We turned around and drove up to the prospective E's home, but I felt that there was something to that sound I'd heard and I went to investigate. As we drove up and down the street I felt the impression that we needed to knock this street. So we did. No success, one return appointment for Monday, but most people were unhappy to see us so late at night. Well, we got to the end of the street and it was 8:45. We really needed to start driving home and we'd come to a good stopping point on the street. I felt like we needed to knock one more door. L & T allowed us to come in to share a 2-minute message with them. We got to know them a little bit and they felt the Spirit. They set up a return appointment for today. Oh, and they know our bishops family! I found it interesting how the Spirit guided us that day. Wow! It was a cool experience! Oh, and we found taught, and baptized on the same day! :)
The other two new investigators came from a member referral. We felt inspired to visit the S. family yesterday; Sister S. was excited to see us because she'd been talking about the Church with her brother-in-law and sister-in-law, and they wanted to meet us. She took us over right away to meet them and we will be going back later this week!
The Lord does the hard work. We just need to listen!
Wow! What a week! I love you all! Have a very Merry Christmas!
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