Oct 17, 2011

Dear Everyone!!!

My week here has been pretty good. We've been really busy this week. Our most progressing investigator, Veronica, quit smoking this week. She was struggling with it for the first few days. We had her meet us at the church last night with some of the elders in our ward who are preparing to serve missions in the next few weeks. They gave her one of the most beautiful priesthood blessings I've ever heard. The spirit was so strong. And Veronica is ready to be baptized. I'm excited to be apart of her story for the next few weeks.

We also set a baptismal date with Sella. I don't remember if I told you about her last week. She's from San Diego and a couple of weeks ago, when we went to meet her, one of the first things she says to us is that she wanted to be baptized. So this week when we met with her, we set the date for November 13th. She's really prepared as well, and I love getting to teach her. Plus, she has an ADORABLE 18 month old daughter named Zaray. She's SO cute!

We also started teaching a new investigator this week. Her name is Sarah. She's the best friend of one of the Young Women in our ward. Teaching her has been interesting because she comes to her friend's house (the member of our ward) to hear the lessons. But the family is big, so we're trying not to make it too uncomfortable for her. We've decided just yesterday that we're going to invite her and her friend over to the church for lunch a couple of days a week, during their lunch break at school. The high school is right across the street from the church. So the setting will be much smaller, and we'll be able to form a trusting bond that will allow us to ask good questions that can help us help her to feel the spirit without a 6 year old running around. :)

Other than that, things will be pretty normal this week. Just same old same old. :)

I hope that you'll all have a great week!

Love, Sister Reid