Well R changed his mind again and didn't get baptised this week :( but K did! R came to our lesson on Wednesday and said he wasn't ready. He was baptised a year ago in a Christian congregation and he found a member this week that told him to really think it through, and he said he needs more time :(. The good news though is that he came to church early this week (still not in his white shirt though) and said he still wants to be baptised, just not yet.
K was super ready, did I tell you she finished the whole BoM?! She even said the last prayer in sacrament meeting this week! So happy for her. Will send pics but now my camera is dead and we don't have electricity in our house.
This week we had another miracle! The bishop told us of a less active recent convert whose son isn't baptised. He will turn 12 this week so the young men's president went with us to visit them. We invited him to be baptised on the 17th because he already has all the attendances he needs to be baptised, and he said "My birthday is on the 9th, can I do it this Friday?" We said yes and so now we are really rushing to teach all the lessons hahaha but we should have another baptism this week and actually it's looking like we will have one every week of this month! We didn't even know him last week, and this week he will be baptised! Already passed the interview and everything! Every baptism is a miracle, that's something I am learning right now. We have had our struggles, but the Lord is blessing us a ton. And the whole district too! Two areas in our district have families of 5 attending church and preparing to be baptised! That one is still on the bucket list for me.
You guys are coming to Mexico? Learn some Spanish so that I can talk to you when I get home!
Suggestions for the local narries in Tuscany. Ask the bishop if we have a ward goal of baptisms for the month or at least for the year and make the ward know that goal! Even if it's like 3! Also go ask the ward secretaries for a list that I'm guessing would be called the "list of accion". It's a list of like part member families and less active families with kids who haven't been baptised and stuff. I think sometimes we hope that all baptisms be huge miracles like knocking a the last door and finding a family of gold that goes to church that first week and gets baptised in a month, and sealed in a year, but sometimes there is a strategy to it as well.
Loving the mish, thinking I probs will extend that extra week, also that week the new president (President Barron) will be there and I would like to get to know him a bit more all well. Gonna pray about it still.
Love Elder Lethaby
Questions Answered:
What scriptures have really helped you this week?
3 Nephi 11 (https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/3-ne/11?lang=eng) helped out a lot. We have an investigator who wants to get baptised and she's ready, but wants to do it with her dad who's not even close to being ready (works on Sundays and drinks). We shared with her how in that story Jesus invited them to come one by one, that we can have a personal relationship with him, and that just because she gets baptised first doesn't mean her dad wont get baptised. She accepted to be baptised on the 17th!
What scriptures have really been your “go to” on your mission?
Do you have a home? Tough to do that and do mission work, but I trust your capabilities all around!
Any new foods you’ve discovered that you can’t live without?
Do you show your investigators your pictures of your family?
I've been big into Mosiah 18 (https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/mosiah/18?lang=eng) where it talks about the covenant that we make when we are baptized, Ive also been big into 1 Nephi 17 and 18(https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/1-ne/17?lang=eng and https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/1-ne/18?lang=eng), 1 Nephi 3 (https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/1-ne/3?lang=eng), Moroni 10 (https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/moro/10?lang=eng), and Alma 32 (https://www.lds.org/scriptures/bofm/alma/32?lang=eng).
Well honestly we kinda just didn't take the time to look for one, and they aren't kicking us out, it's just that there's now construction around the other houses that are beside ours. Also we currently don't have electricity hahah but that should be fixed tomorrow. So I think we kinda want to stay because it's a pretty nice house. We will see haha
Avocado.
Honestly haven't done that. One of the current APs always does that, he puts a pic of his family on his planner to show people. Might get into it.
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