Hey
everyone!
So
here is whats going down. I am staying in huntsville but moving back to the
julia St apartment on friday!! (the address is 670 julia st. nw apt 8
huntsville alabama 35816) and i am getting a new companion! Elder mayer
is getting transfered we think to tuscaloosa and i think i will be getting
elder Kellog up here (dont know for sure yet though). im praying it will be a
good companionship!! :) Im way stoked to stay here though! the branch will have
lots of partys and ill know everyone, So im excited for everything :) If
you have any christmas stuff to send, send it to
this address because it will be safer! this address is a
member in my branch here in huntsville...
100
wickham rd.
Madison
AL
35757
This
week has been pretty eventful too, our English class has been successful as we
have been pulling in around 6 people every Wednesday, we hope that as we
continue to work with these people they will come to church as well. Some have
expressed massive interest. On Thursday we also were able to drive
down to Decatur and work in some Hispanic areas that Elder Mayer knew about. We
have 8 return appointments from that forThursday so if some fall through
we should be able to still effectively use an evening there. it really seams
like there is enough Spanish there to justify working there maybe once a week,
so i think we are going to try and plan to save miles and set aside one day a
week to go the 20 miles there and see investigators and members there. Im
excited to see how it goes!
Other
good things this week were the temple! Such an amazing experience every single
time i've been through the temple. its way beautiful and just a place of peace
and happiness! It also really helped boost my spirituality which carried over
to Saturday where i had the opportunity to baptize Leonor! She is the
sisters investigator but was an amazing Emmaus experience for me to watch
unfold. I met her with Elder Jackson one day on the way to visit a different
investigator, she loved that we taught about the savior and invited us to come
to here house in an hour. so we taught one investigator and then went to her
house and taught her. She was waiting and ready for us. She loved the Book of
Mormon from day one and she was just so ready to make commitments and change!
because she is a single older lady we handed her off to the sisters and through
out the past few weeks we have talked to her and supported her at church and
the sisters have done an amazing job teaching her and preparing her for
baptism. Last week she asked me to baptize her and i had that
opportunity on Saturday. Im so grateful for it. One of the highlights of
my mission so far! You could see a literal change in her from day one until
now. She has the light of Christ burning in her eyes now. it was literally like seeing the
spirit radiate off of her when she came out of the water! baptism is such a
cool thing! Its symbolic of so much too!
first
off, we make commitments when we are baptised and confirmed. mosiah 18: 8-10
and moroni 4 and 5 are some of the commitments we make. We promise to build one
another up, to mourn with those that mourn, to strengthen those that need it,
and to take the name of the savior upon us and always remember him. Its so cool
to make those covenents becuse we are blessed so much from it! We are blessed
by the remmision of our sins and the continual renewal of
our covenants from the sacrament.
As
we are baptized we go from a sinful state to under the water, almost like being
burried. We are washed of all of our sins and then symbolically are reborn into
a new life of following the savior. It gives us a chance to change. to stop our
sinful life, and to come into the fold of our great Shepherd. Jesus
christ. It is one of the most important things we can do in this life because
it shows our willingness to follow our savior. i have a firm testimony of
baptism and the special power and importance it holds. for more information i
encourage everyone to go read those scriptures and the seccion on baptism in
the bible dictionary! Also... go check out this talk.....
and
this video :)
So
yeah... thats whats going on in my life haah :)
I
love you all so much! keep up the good work! yall are amazing!
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