Our lessons with Celine went well. We invited her to be baptised and she
expressed concern about her husband not taking the steps with her and
that she had already been baptized. We gave her a scripture in Alma
7:15-16 and 3 Nephi 11 that talks about becoming like a child and we
taught her that infants are perfect and innocent so they have no need to
be baptized but once we know the difference between right and wrong we
need to be baptized so we can become like infants again as far as being
perfect and innocent. Celine, aka Sister Hafen, is no longer our
investigator but she taught a few of our lessons in my district. She
taught about the Restoration and how to teach it in 5 min or less as if
we were on a bus or train and only had a short time to talk. She's going
on a study abroad trip to Jerusalem and before she left she bore her
testimony to us and showed us a video and it brought the Spirit so
strongly everyone in my district cried a bit. It was powerful. So
yesterday half our zone left to France so on Sunday Elder Seelos and I
were asked to take an assignment and to be the new zone leaders! Yeah
it's only our third week technically and we are now the oldest district
in our zone. It's crazy! The Devotional on Sunday was from Elder and
Sister Dahlquist. She asked us to look at each day and ponder what the
Lord has done or given just for us. Elder Dahlquist taught about how to
pray sincerely and read the Book of Mormon always through any struggle,
trial, or question. Our 2 new investigators are Nathan and Hospice. In
reality they are my two teachers but they play the part of the
investigator when it comes to lessons. Our first lesson with Hospice was
yesterday and it went really well. We learned that he likes soccer and
wants to learn more about the Gospel and about our beliefs on Heavenly
Father and Jesus-Christ because he wasn't active in his Catholic faith
growing up and he wants to learn. We invited him to follow the example
of Jesus-Christ after he knows for himself what we are teaching him is
true. He is open to the idea once Heavenly Father tells him it's the
right thing to do so we invited him to pray about it with a sincere
heart and an open mind. I love Dear Elders!!! Even though I can't
respond immediately it lets me know you're thinking of me! Mom I loved
the donuts haha I ate like 3. I just meant in the future send a lesser
amount of treats so I don't gain any weight. Mints are good, maybe a box
of Mike and Ike's every once in a while and maybe 2-3 short sleeve
white dress shirts its pretty hot up here haha. I'm sending home some
clothes and I'll be mailing off several letters today all in the same
envelope. I have too much rec stuff so it's coming home in a box. I
haven't gotten a chance to write a letter by hand to you three yet but
I'm working on them. I love you guys!!
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