Hey family
Sounds like the temple craze is really getting up there. I can tell from here that the whole city of Calgary is in a bustle about the temple. Im super excited, and I can only imagine how it would be being There. I could go off again on how awesome temples are, but we`ll save that for today. :)
This week was great, we were able to make some key progress with some investigators, and find some other great prepared people as well, thanks to the very useful help of some branch members (hint hint, nudge nudge *împortance of members* cough, like you guys* cough). But apart from that, we are working with a young woman named Marlin, and her little brother Mikel. We met them by starting to play with Mikel in the street with some toy tops that they have here, but they let us in, and we began talking with them and sharing our message. They came to church and we visited them a couple more times. All would be well, but we noticed that Marlin, a lot of the time didnt show us that she had much interest, like she was listening and came to church just because we are persistent. This lack of desires started to get us down and we tried some ideas but we didnt see much improvement. We headed to our appointment with them this past week, ready to lay things out on the table, When she surprised us by telling us that she really has felt something in this time we`ve been teaching her, and that she feels like this is the change she needs in her life. She said that she wants to keep feeling that good feeling she gets when she reads, and prays, and attends church. We left that lesson with our jaws a little dropped and she left that lesson with a baptismal goal for this next month. It was a huge blessing. If you could pray for them, Id be so grateful. We are going to do all we can here, to help them with their goal. :)
Here we dont have a bapt font so we do baptisms in the river that runs along the city. We had a baptism this past Saturday, WOW. what a neat experience. Being baptized like Jesus haha,
Well I love you all so much, thanks for all your support. sorry this computer is really really slow, so maybe NEXT time I can send pictures :)
Take care!
Elder Lonsdale
