First Baptism

Hello everyone!

So I have already taken up most of my time repyling to emails! Buuuttt we had a baptism on Saturday and it was soooo great! Nate was just beaming! It was the cutest thing I have ever seen out of a 13 yr old boy. He was so nervous and so excited. His foster parents had a little party for him after and it made him feel so special. It was such a great day!

We met a new investigator last week and had a ton of great lessons!

Sooo Sunday being my birthday but it was also my first talk that I had to give in Sacrament on my mission day! We were assigned to speak on missionary work lol! I was the second speaker and Sister Lovett first spoke on being bnetter member missionaries and then I spoke on the reason that we do missionary work. She thought of her topic as soon as we got the assignment and then I was like huh... well what the heck should I speak about now. Well I was prayign and thinking and praying somemore and then when we were leaving the baptism I thought of it and wrote it down in my planner. I wish you guys could have been there. I prepared for maybe an hour and a half tops sooo I was nervous!!! But it seemed to go good. I talked about the scripture in 3Nephi 12:14-16 about each of us having a light and that we were given it after baptism and then went on to talk about the joy that we can feel and that we want everyone to have that and thats why we do it. I set a scene for them by descibing what it is like when you are sitting across from a friend and are watching them feel the spirit and what joy that can bring you.. thats the really short version. Do missionary work though! It makes us happy I promise!

Then Sunday! It is so great being able to go to three Sacrament meetings. It is such a great way to start the week. So thought provoking and helps me refocus. I sware Mondays and Wednesdays are always the best becuase Monday is after the day we take the sacrament and Wednesday is the day after we go to the temple!

Yesterday was another great day. Saturday the 19th we were at an investigators house, Jennifer and one of her friends was over who turned out to be a less active. She was surprised that we were sisters. She had been converted by some sisters about 3 years ago and went less active about October last year. We asked if we could stop by. We visited with her and her daughter and taught them about the blessings that come from the standard mormon answers of going to Church, Praying and reading the scriptures. They said that they had wanted to come back to church but they werent sure which one to attend. Before the appt we weren't sure if they lived in our area so we asked the district leaders and it turns out that they are actually living few houses out of our area and live in their area. The ward boundaries are set up real weird here. But they wanted sisters so we went by the first time and taught that lesson and told them to go to the elders ward. So Monday we arrange for the District leaders to meet us there so that they can look out for them at church and be a support for them too. That morning my companion was really sick so she stayed in bed most of the morning. I woke upo like usual and kept the normal morning routine and I had been thinking about them and what to teacht them. I kept having conflicting things come into my mind and so I decided to just study like I normally would and then sister Lovett still wasnt out of bed so I started comp study on my own. I prayed and told Heavenly Father that my companion was sick and that I needed to know what to teach Crystal and Asha. Faith popped into my head so I revised and looked up more scriptures on that. I realised that would be a good way to follow up from last time too. I talked to Sister Lovett about what I thought and that was the plan we went with.
We met the Elders there and Asha was at school so we jut met with Crystal. We talked for a while and the Elders got to know her, it was great and she seemed pretty comfortable with them comign cause we surprised her with them but I felt really strongly they should come. We had a prayer and I started by saying basically just that we would like to talk about faith today. I asked her what faith is to her. She said this is where her issue has been, she then proceeds to tell us that she has just lost a baby cause of complications in the birht. The doctor had used forcepts to get the baby and accidently cut the umbilical cord or something and the baby bled to death. This is the second baby she has lost. Another died at 7 months. So sad! She has 3 others too. And then we have the most spiritual lesson ever. I cant remember a ton of what was said but I remember that I looked at her and said something like, Heavenly Father must have thought you were pretty special to have entrusted you in being the mother of two of his most precious and righteous children who only had to come to this Earth to get a body.. something like that and she cried. She is so awesome and she really hasnt lost she knows she just needed to withdraw for a time but she knows she is ready to come back.
It was awesome and the other cool thing was that after our last lesson her daughter she told us that Asha was like, mum when are we going to read and they were going to go to church but she had to work a double shift that day so she missed it but she has asked for Sundays off so that she can come!

We had a great visit with the Flora's yesterday. We taught them the commandments with all of the hand actions and they did really well.

I hope you are all as pumped for conference as I am.

Love you all

Sister Huckfeldt