So good to hear from you this week and to know that all is well! Sounds like you had a busy week with the kids there and everything else that you were doing. That's so crazy that there insnt very much snow!? when you say that what do you mean? are the ridges bare? they are here! dirt is showing every where down here! ;) surprise surprise.
Well we have had a great week and so much good stuff has happened! we are seeing miracles left and right and it seems like they are just being given to us. We have awesome trust with the members and leadership in both of our wards and i think that this is what it needed to take to get that back so God has really been helping us.
Tina and Crystal are good to go for this Saturday at noon. its always a little bit stressful the last week or so before the baptism trying to get everything in order and interviews lined up to meet every ones schedule but we got it all straitened out and they are good to go. such a blessing, we set a date with them and started teaching them our first week here in the area now here we are 5 weeks later and they are finally getting baptised! so sweet to see.
Another sweet thing happened from us opening our mouth and being bold. Juan's wife Erica has been coming to church with him sense his baptism and she has seemed to really enjoy it but has been kinda sitting in the back seat. Sunday we walked up to her after Gospel Principals class and told her that we would like to meet with her some time and talk about why this church is different than any other (in particular the Catholic church which she was raised in) and she said that she had been praying about that and feels like that would be a good thing. We taught her last night, we could tell from first impressions that she had something on her mind and she looked pretty tender. we said an opening prayer and then she told us how she has been reading the Book of Mormon herself with out Juan even knowing and had been to the Visitor Center by her self and has been doing lots of praying about it all. then she told us that she wanted to be baptised. we taught the restoration of the Gospel and she will be getting baptised January 28, next Saturday! she is so prepared and ready for this its cool to see. its really cool to see the difference in their relationship between Juan and her sense they have both started this process. They will do amazing things and go far.
Last night we also taught Shea and Destiny. they were the ones where they came to church last week and Shea (LA) bore her testimony on how she wants to come back and how destiny wanted to be baptised. it was such a spirit filled lesson! They both have had some pretty sweet experiences over the past 2 months that have prepared them for this return and for Destiny the desire to learn. they are Apache Indians and are such giving and sweet people. really humble and completely submissive. Destiny has a baptismal date for Feb. 11. excited to be able and work with them!
This past week we also set a date with a 9 year old who is a PMF for the 18th of Feb. we just got to get the whole family activated and hopefully they will feel the motivation from their kids. they are awesome. her name is Asriel Rodgers. We found them through Former Investigators in the area book. We are being blessed!
we went to the temple this morning and that was a great time. what a blessing it is to be so close to one pretty much where ever you are in the world. the church is growing fast and the only reason it is, is because it is true! How privlaged we are to be a part of it! :)
I hope you got the package i sent you and your all doing well! I dropped you a post card in the mail this morning so be looking for that! I love and appreciate you all and all you do for you me and your support over the past 2 years. couldnt ask for more. Thank You! hope you have a wonderful week and you see many aswered prayers!
Love,
Elder Lerwill
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