This week was awesome!!! We had a couple of miracles that I would like to share with you.
The first obviously by the subject is that we had a baptism. Our investigator (...........) was baptised on Saturday. I haven't mentioned him much so here is a little bit about him. He is 14 years old and he comes from a family with a bunch of members. His mom and brother are members but currently inactive and his extended family are active members. In December of last year his younger sister was blessed in a Sacrament meeting and afterwards he asked his mom why he had never been baptised or had the opportunity to learn about the church. So we were given their names. We started teaching him in mid January and every lesson that we had he just embraced whole heartedly. And every time we would talk about his baptism he would be super excited. Well his baptism was amazing. All of his family was there, even some from Utah, and they were so happy that he was finally getting baptised. One of the uncle's told us that this was a moment they had all been waiting for. It was so beautiful to see how much love and support (........) has from his family. And because of his example we really feel like his mom is going to come back to full activity and that possibly her fiance will want to take the lessons too. We actually went over to their house Saturday evening and we were talking to his mom who told us that she had given up drinking coffee that week. We were blown away. That is a testament to me that one person can have such a big influence on others. I feel really blessed that I've been able to get to know this family and be a part of such a wonderful experience for them.
Last night we actually got a call from President M saying he was so happy that we had a baptism. He actually sounded giddy that we are having success. (............) baptism was the first in our ward in 3-4 months so I guess he has every right to be pleased. And in the course of 2 weeks each companionship will have had a baptism. We had one Saturday, the bike elders had one on Sunday, and the car elders are going to have one next Sunday. The Lord is really blessing us for all our efforts.
The other miracle this week was a girl named (.......). I've mentioned before that we are working on organizing our area. Part of that has been following up on some referrals to make sure they are as updated as possible. Well we contacted her on Tuesday and she invited us back for Wednesday and this is what she told us...
Last summer she had gone to visit her aunt in Salt Lake City. They had gone to the temple and she loved it. She felt such a peace there that she hadn't felt in a long time. Because of that experience she requested missionary visits. And she has been waiting since last July for missionaries to come knock on her door. She didn't know when they would come so every night she and her mom (who is inactive) would read the Book of Mormon and pray together. Waiting and waiting and waiting....
We were stunned that no missionaries had visited her until us. She is so incredibly prepared to learn about the Gospel. We taught her the first lesson and it was like she was glowing because of how happy she was. And we extended her a baptismal date and she was so excited to know that she could get baptised. I don't know why missionaries didn't visit her before but I know that the Lord works in mysterious ways. There is a reason why we found her and no one else did. I'm excited to get to know her and her family better and help her progress in the Gospel. And one day we will know why it had to be us to find her.
Well that's the news for this week. Oh, I finished the Doctrine and Covenants in English. That was such a cool experience. I'm now working on the Pearl of Great Price. I've learned a ton as I've worked my way through the scriptures.
I love you all and hope you are doing well.
Til next week,
Hermana Hansen
Photos below are from Juliet's email last week.
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