Dear Family and Friends,
You know you're serving in Florida when the average age of your recent
converts is 80.
Last week we followed up with Eugene about his baptismal date. He told us
that he had been praying about it and that the holy spirit told him that he
should be baptized into our church! He also asked us if we could do it the very
next day! Haha, we still have to teach him the rest of the lessons so we
compromised for this Thursday. He's so excited. He's already daydreaming about
receiving the priesthood. He's doing pretty swell for a 91 year old.
Luz and Eladio are also very excited for their baptisms this Saturday as
well! They keep telling us how grateful they are for us because none of the
missionaries beforehand made them go to church. They love church and bore their
testimonies yesterday about it. They said that yesterday morning they really
didn't feel good and didn't think they'd make it to church but then they set a
goal to get dressed. Once they were dressed they still weren't sure but they
said, "We made a promise to God that we were going to go," so they came! The
moment they got to the church they started feeling better. It's a miracle!
We've also been teaching Jalicia some more. She is going to be baptized
next week. For those of you who don't know who she is, she is one of the sister investigators that we picked up when sister McGee joined us.
We had another miracle yesterday at church. There's been a new woman coming
to our branch for the past 3 weeks now and we've never been able to talk with
her before she leaves but this week we did because she stayed all three meetings
and she told us that she wanted to become a member! She said she wanted the
lessons first though. You can imagine our faces at this point. We were more than
happy to tell her yes.
Ooh! One last possible baptism!! On Monday we talked with Vanessa (our
investigator who just got out of jail, she's had the lessons for the past year)
and she said that she could possibly be baptized the first week of March
depending on if she's taken off of parole! We think it's very likely because she
was on house arrest before but they changed that really quickly and her attorney
is doing a very good job. Please pray for her. She's so ready to be baptized.
She even made her boyfriend move out to live the law of Chastity.
Other than that things have been pretty normal.
Love you tons!
Hermana Mathis
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