Monday, August 15, 2011

Baptism's!


So, first off, the baptism was super awesome!!  Ton's of people that have been less active came to the baptism and everyone was SUPER touched by the spirit!  These boys are setting such a good example for these people.  It has been super awesome to see the re-activation that has taken place because of these young boys decision to be baptized! Confirming them was an interesting experience. On your mission you never use the "tu" form of you, (because it is too casual or something) I'm not quite sure exactly, but when you talk to kids you use it. Needless to say I kept wanting to use the "vous" form during Lloyd's blessing.  I managed to only use the "vous" form  once, so I think they'll forgive me ! 
    This week was full of finding.  We managed to find another family that said we could come back! Unfortunately it has been a little hard to get a hold of some of these newer people, but hopefully we can start to see some of them soon!
    One lady we started teaching is one of those eternal Amie's that pretty much every missionary has taught and she knows everything is true but has something holding her back. We had heard lot's of things about her.  How she was not very confident in herself and loads of everything else.  When we got there (her name is Rosalie btw) she opened up to us a little bit and it turns out that she was REALLY touched by the last missionaries that had taught her.   She made a commitment to stop smoking so that she can be baptized! I think the problem in the past was that everyone had been treating her as if she was super low on self esteem and tried ,probably a little too hard ,to build her up when she really just needed to feel the spirit and have some encouragement as she tried to stop smoking in the past! So we are now going to just help her feel the spirit so that she can overcome this addiction and be baptized!!
    We have a rendez-vous with Andrés this Wednesday and everything is still planned for him to be baptised on the 28th of August. Church attendance has been a problem recently so we are going to have to clarify some stuff with him at this rendez vous, but I have a lot of hope for him.
    SO, our district is pretty much on fire! We just had those two baptisms last Sunday, the sisters in Liège just fixed two baptismal dates, the zone leaders in Liège just fixed one, and we still have the one we fixed with Andrés and possibly one soon to come with Roselie! YEAH miracles!!!! It's been so awesome to work with our district and see how hard they work and be able to bask in each others miracles!
     Well, this e-mail was kinda scrambled and my thoughts aren't very well linked together.  Hopefully y'all got the gist of all the awesomeness going down! I have learned so much on my mission and I am amazed at how much I keep learning.  Every time I start to think that I have learned something ,MORE stuff comes up and I learn even more! This is God's church and He loves all of His children and has provided a plan for all of us to feel a fullness of joy in this life, so as to give us hope that we can obtain this fullness of joy on whole new level in the life to come!
     I love all of you.  Tell Joe ....wow, I mean Elder Weatherford that he is awesome! I love him...but I can't send emails.....lame I know but I have his address and I am sending a letter! Y'all are sweet and I hope this week is just awesome!

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