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Man, there were so many miracles that happened this week - I don't even know where to start. I'll start with the baptism, that sounds like a good idea. So, we've been teaching Alan for 2 months now, and he's been SO ready for the last 3 weeks. He had to wait for his baptismal date because of emergencies getting to church, but yesterday when we were waiting for his family to get there, someone asked him if he was ready and he said "I stink of preparedness." ha ha. It was really neat, because almost his WHOLE family came, and none of them had been very receptive before, but all of them felt the spirit and were making comments that he's never been this happy nor this committed to anything before. It took 4 people in the font to baptize him, and I was scared to death the whole time that he was going to drown, but he made it!
We had him write down his testimony on his iPad and had a member of the ward read it as part of the baptismal program, and it was incredible. Basically he said "The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints has helped me change my life. I used to be so angry and thought that God had done this to me, but now I know that he loves me and that I can change."
I don't know that I have ever seen anyone as desirous to be baptized as Alan, and I feel like I was allowed to be a small part of a very large miracle. From everything we've seen, Alan is going to be the means of bringing about a lot of blessings to his family and to the ward.
This week was also sister Moore's birthday, and on her birthday we had a blitz where the Zone Leaders came and worked in our area for a few hours, and sister Moore and I found 3 new investigators within those 3 hours. It was super cool. One of them is named Phillip, and we met him through a kind of crazy series of circumstances, but we talked with him briefly and then set up a return appointment for Sunday. Saturday night we ended up having some things fall through, and I felt really strongly that we should go visit him. So we went, and found him outside. He told us that he'd been thinking all day, and that lead to a really cool discussion about the Plan of Salvation, why we're here, etc. There are some people you meet and talk to as missionaries that are interested, but don't get that this applies to their life. I'm not sure how to explain it. I guess just the majority of people take a while to realize the seriousness of what we're sharing. I guess a lot of it is that most people have a pretty solid religious background and don't see the need for more. Anyway, Phillip has been really cool to work with because he takes it all seriously. It's hard though because you can see how much potential he has, but because of circumstances he hasn't been able to use a lot of that. I think that's one of the hardest things about the mission, is seeing unrealized potential. I guess that's probably how God feels about a lot of us, ha ha.
Well, I love you all!
Love,
M
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Hermana Reynolds
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