Up and Down

I unfortunately don't have to much time today but I won't wast time explaining! I just sent letters to grandma and one to home with pictures of Damien's baptism and stuff.
  First off!!  Thanks so much for the wonderful packages. I got the one from grandma and from mom!!! I must say the PB is the best!!!!

OK the biggest news is that we fixed a baptismal date with Qiongji!!! She is the Chinese amie we have been teaching since I got here, and she has been taught for almost a year now!! We had been really struggling to find out what we should teach her because we have taught her ...well I have taught her (with Elder Fisher and Costner) all of the lessons almost three times!!!!! BUT.. after a ton of reflection and spiritual planning me and Elder Costner felt super strongly prompted to invite her to baptism!! The one problem that she has been struggling with has been to find that conviction that everything is true, her testimony! She believes all of it is good but just hasn't been able to have good prayers. She feels like she is talking to herself. We talked a lot about how she could improve them, and we spent a lot of our time using the example of the brother of Jared. We told her that sometimes the Lord asks us to come up with some ideas to how we should resolve our problems and then to present them to him for his approval. This is what the brother of Jared did. The Lord does this because he wants us to work and he wants to make us better and increase our faith! This is how we presented the baptismal invitation to her;in saying that she needed to present her desire to be baptized and her sincerity and real intent to be baptized by fixing a goal and presenting it to the lord in prayer to help her prepare for this date!! It was a super powerful rendezvous and she accepted to prepare herself to be baptized the  14th of April which is cool because after I gave the invitation she said," WOW, that is cool that is the day I was thinking of!!

We also are having lots of success with Damien's family. His cousin Mandy in particular. She already agreed to be baptized after she gets her answer.....YEAH miracles! I guess I should go to the hospital more often eh!!! JK, and no I haven't gotten the results yet!!!! I will keep you posted!! Well transfers are over and I am still a district leader.....which means half of my time in the field I have spent being a district leader....weird well I love you lots and I hope y'all have a good week!!

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