ciao tutti! well this week has been fantastico! We have
really been blessed lately and i am so grateful for all of your prayers and
thoughts because i can definitly feel the extra support. This week we had a few
lessons with barbara and they all went extremely well. she asked the most
perfect questions about our church and has a VERY strong desire to continue
with her investigation. Last week after the lesson she told us that she
recieved and answer that the book of mormon is true, that joseph smith was a
true prophet and did really see Heavenly Father and Jesus Christ, and she knows
that our church is the true church and she stopped drinking wine and coffee! So
we asked her if she will be ready on her baptismal date that we set as a goal
for the 6th of september. Her answer was that she really wants too, but that
she doesnt feel like she is worthy enough to be baptised. We of course told her
that none of us are perfect and we all make mistakes but that if she continued
to not drink wine or coffee that all would be well and God would give her the
confirmation that she is indeed ready to make that promise with god and be
baptised. I also told her that sometimes when i have a question i open the book
of mormon to a random page and start reading and that SOMETIMES i find the
answer that i am actually looking for and said that she could try the same if
she wanted to. This happened last Friday. Then Saturday night around 10 we got
a message saying that she opened the BoM to a random page, which was 1Nephi
17:55 and the first words that she read were"We know of a surety that the
Lord is with thee." And she continued the message by saying, "now
i know that i am ready for the baptism because i know that the Lord
is with me... i am very happy, thank you :)" it was
the happiest moment of my entire mission when i read that. I felt sooo
extremely happy for Babara and i knew that Heavenly Father is watching over her
and guiding her every step of the way.
Then monday night we decided to have a family home evening
over at the bishops house with barbara and her 8 year old son and us. We had
homemade pizza and soda and it was just a GREAt time, our bishop is a really
funny guy, in fact he reminds me a lot about you dad haha. We talked about her
baptism and she shared her feelings about at first not feeling pure enough but
now feeling certain that she wants to be baptise on the 6th of september. She
also wants to buy her own baptismal dress to keep as a memory and she wants to
also take it to the temple when she goes to do baptisms for the dead! When i
say she is the golden investigator i mean she is THE GOLDEN INVESTIGATOR :)
Well that is pretty much the highlight of the week. we are
setting up all of the baptismal preperations and getting everyting ready for
who gives the talks and all that good stuff :) im so excited for Barbara i know
she will be blessed so much and i cant wait to see her in her white baptismal
dress it will make me the happiest person on the planet. well i love you guys and
again i thank you all for your thoughts and prayers i couldnt have done it
without you! Talk to you next week! Ciao!
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