mission life as always, just saving souls as usual
Hey Everyone!
with the baptisms we had the other week where there was 4 baptisms, we had three families completed - 1.a husband of a returning less-active 2./3.husband and wife 3. last child of a member family. That was a cool observation from our branch president. The next week, we had a woman baptized whose husband is taking the lessons! They are on fire with the spirit and the Gospel, inviting their friends and families to hear the message, because they have complete confidence in the power and truth of the message. It's cool to see them coming to Toledo Sacrament meetings; with how they live farther away it should be harder, but their faith and commitment is greater than the obstacles. This is why that area, Casoy, is now my favorite area in my mission.
one of our other investigators, Nap-john, really wants to get baptized, but the problems are that he's not sure about if he's received an answer that the church is true; he's also not fully active (misses church every once in awhile despite living down the road a ways); and he isn't reading the Book of Mormon at all recently. He needs to be fully active and reading daily if he intends to endure to the end - in our teaching to him, I made sure to not just say that he needs that to be baptized, but I told him he needed to do that to the end of this life, which I then and there committed him to do for the rest of his life.
We also have a family, Bacasmas, who is returning to activity after we taught them about true repentance and how we have to abandon the sin as explained in Mosiah 4:10 and then after their first time back we taught them about accountability with the parable of the talents in Matthew 25:14-29. It was really good to drive the point home that they need to not just have good excuses or "just try" - they need to fulfill covenants and keep commandments. And since then, they've been doing just that, and we've finally been able to teach them as a family - twice now. That hasn't happened at all in the time that Elder Gaerlan has been assigned here until now. There's a investigator that hasn't been coming to church or be taught for months, but now he's doing both! It seems to mainly be because of his..'partner' ... one of the girls in the Bacasmas family who's pregnant with his child. But the good thing is that they've finally gotten over their shyness and now they're coming to church and being taught the lessons by us!
that's about it for stuff going on here! Hope all is going well there!
~Elder Dallin Carlson
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