Saturday, February 5, 2011

An Epic Week


This week has been epic! No; S and L were not baptized. They just do not feel like they are ready. That is OK because that is what God wanted. All things work for our benefit. Right now it isn’t a matter of if, but when. We are hoping to extend another baptismal date to them this week. Sinky and Lilian have the most amazing capacity to love. They are so great and they make the best African food ever.
We are working with Dan Cox’s wife. He is the man; we baptized just before Christmas. They are such a great couple. Last night we stopped by their place and gave a really in depth lesson on the apostasy. We based it off Talmage’s book "Jesus the Christ". I LOVE THAT BOOK!!! The most amazing book! You can really sit down and read it and truly study it. I have been doing a lot of studying in it.
We got another great investigator, Yemy Lewis. She is the woman who a member brought to church a week or two ago. Our mission President’s wife challenged her to baptism. We taught her and she loved what we told her. She said that she hadn’t had any of her family sprinkled (baptized) because she didn’t believe in it. She was waiting to find the right church. Her kids said they were going to wait and not be baptized into church ether; they knew their mom would find a church for them or something like that. Anyway, she told her family about the church and her kids are interested and want to be baptized. They all live out of our area but it is pretty neat to see a family come together like that. She is a very spiritual woman.
We are also teaching a Jamaican family. We met last December when Elder Whitehead and I missed a bus. We had run to catch the bus at the station and the driver stopped for a minute looked at our badges and drove off….we thought what a PUNK. But, it all worked for the best because we saw this family laughing at us. Elder Whitehead and I realized how funny it had been and we went over to talk to them. They introduced themselves as Adian and Cameo Morris. Adrian was in the military and on leave from the war. Cameo and their two kids live in Windsor on the military complex. They have a boy (9) Justin and a girl Dana (4) they are the cutest kids. I can’t tell you how much love these people have for us. They are great. Adrian is back on his tour of duty. But they want to be baptized but now she is thinking she may wait for her husband to come back from duty before she is baptized. Then again she isn’t sure what she should do. Her son loves the church and wants to serve a mission. She said she has never seen her kids or herself so happy, when she thought she would feel so sad with her husband gone. We dropped by on Saturday and she was telling us she has been doing a lot of praying and thinking. She really thinks she should be baptized but she feels too attached to her Church. She then told us how she felt when we taught their family. She said when we come to teach them the house would light up. A spark in her soul would light and her gloom and depression would lift and she would feel better, and for hours after we left she would still feel happy. We told her that was the spirit telling her to be baptized. I think she will be baptized but we are not sure if it will be before or after her husband comes home. They are a great family.
Here is an Elder story for you from our p day. We played rugby and that was fun, after we were through we tried to stack as many elders on top of each other as possible. We got up to three then when the fourth would get on the bottom they all would fall. It was kind of funny.