It Usually Woks Out Fine in the End‏

I am having a tough time remembering everything that happened this week. There may be holes in my stories. Ha-ha. I'm sure none of you will be upset. If you are then you need to get a life. LOL

OK, so I guess an easy way to do this would be to just go though our investigators.

Eugene McGrath. Solid as ever. I have truly never seen someone so ready. Baptism is a formality now. He is reading and coming to church on his own. When we met with him after church we showed him the baptismal questions and he said he understood everything and had no problems with any of it. He will be getting baptized on Saturday the 25th with Grace Di Dominica. He has asked a member to baptize him (which we are very happy about, because originally he wanted a past missionary to do it and we aren't supposed to do that). I have no concerns for him. I am not worried at all, I know he will be baptized and stay active all on his own. To top it off the ward is doing a great job fellow-shipping him.

Grace Di Dominica. Wow. This week she came to meet us at the church for a lesson and guess what she had with her? A brand new quad! Yup, she got herself a quad online. So I gave her my extra scripture markers. Guess what she did with those scripture markers? You guessed it, she used them. She had them with her at church and she was using them to mark the scriptures people read in church. During sacrament she was going through the intro to the Book of Mormon and marking that. Then later she was reading The Doctrine and Covenants and marking that up! LOL! She makes me so happy! She is so willing to just accept and believe and then do what it takes to develop her own testimony. This week we covered the law of chastity and the second half of the plan of salvation. She told us about how her son somehow had memories of his twin that died before it was born. We told her that in the millennium she would be able to raise that child. The spirit was very strong and all she said was "Good". Then we told her about baptism for the dead and she wanted to know If she should baptize her children who died. We told her she didn't have to because the atonement covered that. Then she expressed a desire to be baptized for her parents. It was awesome. She was nervous again about having to get dunked in the water though. Ha-ha. Its cause she doesn't like to be seen without make up. Which is one reason why we are so excited for her to be baptized on Saturday. That way she won't have to go though all of church makeup-less feeling uncomfortable. So when she asked for Sunday off for her baptism last week her boss gave her Saturday and Sunday. She was confused and told her boss "I don't need both days." But, her boss gave it to her anyway. So when we suggested Saturday she realized why. It was a cool little miracle! :D Woot. Don't you love how things work out sometimes! We still have a lot to cover with her... But I think she will be able to learn it all and accept it all (at least the things that you need to accept to be baptized) before Saturday.

Harold Ariza (Cortes). Well, after a lot of schedule changes and telephone calls and wishes that we could read peoples minds and not wanting to mess anything up... Harold was baptized on Yesterday! 8D It was great and went really smoothly and wasn't super long. Brother Stephen Bues and his wife came home early from vacation in Nw Hampshire to baptize Harold! It was really great. It was Bro Bues first baptism because in his mission in Finland they were not allowed to be the baptizers. Harold seemed pretty happy. I really hope that his filming doesn't distract him too much that he doesn't make it to church and conference. Its really great how everyone in the ward is with him. It seems like every one's children love him. He is so great with kids. I found out this week that he likes the White Stripes and plays guitar! Ha-ha. So that was cool. Also he made us "sugarcane water," he didn't know how to call it in English. But it was really good. Its basically sugar cane you can buy from the store boiled in water. It is really high in calories. He says that all the military people drink it and they give it to kids who are growing.

Well there is the top stuff.

Here is some other stuff that happened.

We helped the Velenas and the Psilos' work on there house. Kiser and I mixed cement and poured it and hauled bricks back an forth in wheel barrows to throw in between the old stoop and a new wall. Then we would pile dirt on top. Then more bricks then more dirt until we made it even with the top of the steps. We did this so that they could have really solid ground to build a new and improved stoop over the top of the old one. Basically my back is sore. Ha-ha. don't worry I used my legs, its muscle soreness not a thrown out back or nothin. Ha-ha.

This week I said Aks instead of Ask as well as "What time it is?" Funny, right? I'm really becoming a New Yorker.

A recent convert told us her upstairs neighbors want to meet us! So that will be a whole family to teach soon. Also the Velengas landlords want to meet with us, so they are trying to schedule a time. :) Neat, right?

I think that's all I have to write about at this time.. Thank you for reading. Love,
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-Elder Samuel Austin Morris