Hey Family!
How
are you this week? I hope great! So this week has been great! Gene’s baptism
was on Saturday and can I just tell you that it was so awesome. Over 50 people
from the ward came to support him and everything just went very smoothly and
wonderfully, it was so cool. I was a bit nervous because when Gene got to the
church he was in a terrible mood and he was not happy. He was confused
about where his wife is right now, because in the Bible it says when you die
you go to Heaven or Hell and he was like you me that she is in some other
place. Does that mean that she is just floating around? I don't believe my wife
is just floating around, she was a good Christian woman her whole life I know
she is in Heaven. Well even though we already had the Plan of Salvation
lesson with him, he seemed to be confused on that part of it, which is crazy
because when we had that lesson we explained and taught very clearly and he
understood it so well, it wasn't until the week of his baptism that all of
these questions and misunderstanding came up, Satan really was working so hard
on Gene to upset him. So Sister Low and I and the Elders in our ward, Elder
Duffy and Elder Jensen, re-explain and taught the Plan of Salvation all
together and then said a prayer that Gene would feel comfort in knowing that
his wife is in a good place where she is happy. After the prayer he did feel
better and was ready for his baptism. The meeting went so well, a sister in our
ward Sister Hicks spoke on baptism and did a wonderful job and then a brother,
Brother Hanson (the one related to Travis Del Toro) spoke on the Holy Ghost,
they both did a very good job, the spirit was very strong when they spoke. Then
a woman from the ward Sister Mullen sang Amazing Grace, it's Genes favorite
song, and man can I tell you that first of all that is a beautiful song, and
secondly it brought the spirit into the room so much. Gene was just in tears
and so were half the other people in the room. It was incredible, after that of
course was the actual baptism, it was so cute when Gene came up out of the
water he looked at his grandson, the one who baptized him, David, he said, it's
done brother! with a big smile on his face. It was such a good baptism. Ha
crazy though Sister Low and I got to the church at 6:30am to fill the font
because it has problems holding the water without draining, and so all morning
we were watching it and it was filling up with freezing cold water, well as
"smart" as we are haha we decided to go to the kitchen and start
heating water up in the microwave and oven, to know little surprise that made
about a negative 2 percent difference, so the 4 of us (because the Elders came
to help us) all said a prayer together that the water would be warm and that we
did all we could to make it warm and it just wasn't working, well to no
surprise right after that we went and messed with the valves and guess what,
hot water started coming out and with the last 30 minutes we had to fill it
before people showed up, it completely warmed up; seriously a blessing. It was
cool too, we invited our new gator Ms. Shirley, to the baptism and she loved it
and thought it was so cool and said she could feel the spirit very strong. We
set a date with her last week to be baptized on July the 20th and she told us,
I'm ready for the waters girls. And it's so cute she is about 75 years old and
she is a little black woman, and at the baptism and church yesterday she was
going around introducing herself to everyone and making friends all on her own
and telling literally everyone, my baptism is next month on the 20th and that's
on my birthday, it's going to be the best birthday ever! Haha so so cute! Well
I hope you all had a happy fathers day! This video is one of my favorites; the
Mormon Messages are so awesome you guys should watch them. Well I love you all
and I will talk to you next week!
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