I had a pretty good week this week. We baptized Thelma which was good. I can't remember if I told you, but one thing that held her back was she didn't think tithing was important. We had a lesson with her about it and she was still being stubborn, but at the end, elder Ross shared a story that he wasn't planning on sharing because it was kind of personal I guess. But I want to tell you about it because it's too cool not to share haha. So his mom was struggling financially when he was in 7th grade, and I think she had recently got a divorce. She still paid tithing though. And one day, she was driving Ross to school, and her car ran out of gas! She pulled over into a church parking lot and prayed. She was crying and having a hard time, they didn't know what to do. When she turned the car back on, the gas meter was full!!! How cool is that? Elder Ross was pretty emotional during the lesson, but the spirit was super strong. Thelma was balling too. She finally understood that tithing was important. So that was awesome. So when she was baptized, we got there and realized we needed keys to the font which we didn't have! So we rushed to find someone who did. Finally we got some keys and we blasted the font haha. everything worked out. We found out while we were there, that her brother was getting baptized that Saturday! She didn't even tell us! Haha. So we went to his up in paradise too. (Paradise is a town near us) So yesterday, we went to this girls house that we had stopped by several times at. She was a referral and we kept going by but she was never home! We finally left a Book of Mormon with a note on it. We were out of pass along cards. She texted us to come over on Sunday. So we did, and she has read a lot of the Book of Mormon! Her family is all LDS and she really wants to be baptized. She wants to be baptized in Hawaii though. That's where she's from. So I don't think we will be able to be there haha. But still really cool!
Here are some pictures that Jayden sent of the lady that was baptized last Thursday. The first one was labeled "Aw Yeah"and the second one was labeled "Soul Saved"! I'm glad he still has his great sense of humor!!
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