December 7, 2015

Another week of no group email from Jeremy. Here's some of what he wrote to me and his mom.

My district is baptizing a lot though! Honestly when I found out I was DL of a bunch of sisters I was not excited at all. The sisters in my district are amazing though, they work so hard. The other day I had to go over to give a baptismal interview, and the hermana who's getting baptized was beyond ready. She's going to be baptized this week :) After the interview I came out and my comp and the hermanas were all teaching a lesson together. I couldn't leave without my companion and he was right in the middle of the lesson, so I just joined in. We ended up with 4 missionaries teaching the plan of salvation there. It was actually kind of cool, I like seeing how the hermanas teach. They definitely have different insights than us elders do.

So there's a recent convert in the branch named Frederick. We've been visiting him and his little brother Bruno who's an investigator, but we wanted to talk with their mom to ask for permission to continue teaching Bruno. He's only 12 so we've gotta be careful there. We were talking with her and she actually started crying during the lesson. She told us how she felt like she wasn't there for her kids that much since she has to work a lot and she was just so worried about them. She then thanked us for coming over, because since her sons started learning the gospel their whole family dynamic has changed and their family has come closer. We're planning on asking the zone leaders for permission to baptize Bruno and next Saturday we're going to go start the lessons with their mom. I'm so happy for them though, and the way the gospel has strengthened their family. It was a devout catholic woman who had never met with the missionaries who confessed that change thanks to the church, and now that she's open to meet with us I feel like they're going to see even more blessings. That's going to be cool :)