Pageant!!

Tue, Jul 17, 2012

Surprise! We get an hour to email today! Pageant has been SO good! It's exhausting, but I feel like I can endure it better this year, although I still have another week of it, so we'll see How I feel in a few days. Carl came to pageant and he brought his sister! They liked it and she said she wanted us to come visit her and bring her a book of Mormon. He has also not drunk any coffee since we taught Word of Wisdom, which he said would be the hardest thing, and only had one beer. We were really proud of him. Last night our lesson with him was great. He still isn't sure about 'joining our church' because he loves his church and that he is involved there, but he knows it is true and he said he wanted to be baptized by the proper authority. He also knows the Book of Mormon is true and still loves the experience he had in the grove. Last night he told us that he has just felt so happy since we started meeting with him, and at peace with life. He even recognized that he hasn't sworn once since he had his experience in the grove, and doesn't get angry. He is feeling his heart change a lot.

Jay, our new investigator of last week, also came to pageant, but we since have turned him over to the Elders. We haven't heard anything since, but are praying that he will continue to investigate and make the change to the other ward okay. It's been kind of a stressful transition for some reason.

A wonderful man in our ward who was baptized a year and a half ago went through the temple this week, so we got to go with him. President Christianson was his escort, and it was so great. Brother Hanline just looked so happy whenever I saw him. He had dealt with a lot of hardship before hand, so it was great to see him get there and feel so peaceful.

Remember Casey who came to pageant last year and was baptized in October? Saturday was her year anniversary of meeting us at the Joseph Smith farm and she came to pageant and found me. It was great talking to her and hearing about her conversion! She also met Carl, and that was neat because she told him about how hard giving up coffee was for her, but that she did it!

It's a huge blessing to stay in our apartment during pageant instead of moving to a different area, because we've been able to see some of our investigators even during pageant who really needed it. miracle.

I love you all!
Sister A