Ok so I had another jam packed week. We had a baptism on Saturday!!! She seriously went through some trial last week too!! As of Wednesday Dianne she is now living in a homeless shelter, has no job and no mode of transportation. But she stayed so positive and the blessings are already coming! She should have a job really soon and hopefully a new place to live. It was the best baptism and a ton of people came. She is doing well and making friends! I am so happy about how well she has progressed. I have another appointmen with her tomorrow so we can see how she is feeling.
Ok so remember how last time I told you that Norma wants to be baptised? Well... we had a wonderful visit with her on Wednesday where the Spirit was so strong and her testimony is just sky rocketing! Towards the end of that she started telling us her schedule for the rest of the weeks so that we could make another appoinment and well she had an appointment with her parole officer... so our hearts sunk.
The next day we came back and we had been praying all morning about how we would approach it. We shared some amazing stories of perseverance from our own experiences and from the BOM, then Sister Thomas told her that we had been praying all morning because there is some thing that we need to tell her. She told her that she can't be baptised until she is off parole and Norma just sank. We had a member there called Sister Stander and she is so amazing. We all did our best to explain the reasoning to her and express to her how amazing it will be when she can rise out of that water with everything behind her but Norma was hurt, really hurt. She said that she couldn't understand that the one Church that she believes is true and the one church she is ready to stick with, won't take her as she is. Sister Thomas then said that she was hurt that Norma was feeling that way then went on to explain that she isn't being rejected, rather she was being told to wait. I Shared Mosiah 23:21-22 at some point. This is a great scripture and really puts trial into perspective... for some reason we found out then and needed to tell her. It was a trail heavenly father saw fit for her and she has already seen progression since then. She is ok now and she was at church on Sunday...but Sister Thomas is gone so thats scary but hopefully I will be able to pick up where she left off. She is a wonderful person and so loving. It has just been a continual msg for her of keep going and stay on that path. You are being tested! Aren't we all!!
Marta Petersen is doing really well! She had an interview with the bishop on Sunday and we saw her after and she seemed to have a bit of a weight lifted. She has commited to baptism too and her (three daughters maybe also) but the thing is that her husband is an inactive member and really hasn't got too much of an interest. He finally came to lesson on Thursday and hopefully we can keep that up and help him understand how important it is again. Pray for that please!
We are teaching the cutest family, the mum is an inactive member and the two little boys are so cute. They are 6 and 9. I just love them so much. We had family home evening with them last night and their home teachers taught the lesson. They are so hypo but they just sat their and listened. They came to church on Sunday which was exciting and they said they are coming again this week. I will have to tell you more about what makes them so awesome but I really have to rap this up!
Buttttt.... I think I told you about Lisa before, the one we movesd and then found a home for at the members house? Well if not let me know. I think its a great story. Well she wants to get baptised to and she is so excited!!
Ok thats all I can write for now but I could just keep going! I love you all and love hearing from you!
Love Sister Huckfeldt
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