There
are always just so many good things to write about and there is never
enough time to write them all.... But well to start out, we had a
baptism this weekend. Bianca, she's 9 and just so cute! She loves all
the kids in the church and likes reading the Book of Mormon. haha
whenever we would ask her if she read she would say yes and then we
would ask her what she read and she would be like "things about God"
haha so cute. She may not understand completely but at least she's
trying. haha. There was a really special moment at her baptism that I
want to share. So before her baptism, when we would ask her if she was
excited she would always be like yes and no. The no was because she had a
fear of drowning. We assured her that she would not drown and that we
were baptized at her age and we were still living and therefore knew
everything would be okay. Anyway, she wanted her uncle to baptize her
and her uncle is our rescue and I don't know if he's ever baptized
anyone or if he has, it's been a long time but we helped him and
explained to him how to do it but I guess we forgot one important
detail. That detail would be how fast to put her under the water and
come back up....he put her under way fast and I don't even know if she
had time to plug her nose, poor thing and so she came up out of the
water like gasping for air with a face of pure terror. I was like great,
everything she didn't want to happen, happened....ahh but anyway she
came out and we were right there helping her out and I just told her to
come over and I just gave her the biggest hug. It didn't matter that she
was soaking wet, I just wanted to comfort her. I told her everything
was going to be okay and that we were right there to help her. That
moment is a moment I will never forget. It was even more special because
the day before in our weekly planning session that we had in the
church, our zone leaders had everyone bring a picture of their families
and they put them up on the white board and then asked us "who are these
people to you?" we talked about how they were the most important people
in our lives and that we would give everything for them. They then told
us that that's how we should feel about our investigators...they are
like our family members and we sould see them that way. We should be
willing to give everything for them and love them with all our hearts
and give them all our time and all our hearts. In that moment with
Bianca, I just felt like she was one of my family members, like one of
my cousins or something and I could truly feel the love of the Savior in
that moment.
Anyway, I hope you all have a great week and try always to have charity towards one another!
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