Hey! So this week was way good! Ms. Shirley was baptized and the
service was very nice, not a whole ton of people came, but the talks were very
good and the musical number was sung by Ashley Keoppel and her father (Mary Eames’
friends) they sang beautifully. Ms. Shirley really enjoyed it too. After she
changed and got dressed after the baptism she gave me a hug and said, "I’ve
made it, Jesus I've made it" Haha she is so cute. K so amazing miracle
happened this week. Since Ms. Shirley's baptism was this week we no longer have
a solid investigator that has a baptism date, well this has been stressing
Sister Low and I out very badly and we have been tracting like you wouldn't
believe and trying to visit our potential investigators all the time to teach
them and nothing was happening. Well we have obviously been praying like mad
and fasting that Heavenly Father would help us to find someone to teach who was
ready for the gospel and still nothing... So Saturday morning we are at the
church filling up the font for Ms. Shirley and getting things set up and such
and around 10:30 everyone was showing up to the church to take pictures and get
ready for the service and all of a sudden a young boy who is 17 named Amir
walks through the door. The ward mission
leader and I walk over to him and ask him if he is looking for someone and he
says, "Well yes kind of, my name is
Amir and I always ride my bike by this church to see if anyone is here. So I
decided to get up today and stop by to see if someone could talk to me about the
church and give me a tour or something -k pause (my mouth dropped open in
shock) and then he said, I am going to be moving out of my house when I am 18
and I want to find a church and get a strong foundation in Jesus Christ and
every time I ride by your church I always want to stop by and go inside and
learn more." Wow we were so surprised, we told him that he had come to the
right place and that we were actually having a baptism and asked if he would
like to stay and he said yes! It was so good, and what was even cooler is that some
boys he goes to high school with were there and a big shot football player that
goes to school with him is the one baptizing Ms. Shirley and he recognized all
of them! It was so cool. After the baptism he said that he enjoyed it and that
it felt warm and welcoming and good. He also said he wants to start coming to
church and we said yes of course come on Sunday at 11 here in this building!
Nothing short of a miracle here. Well on Sunday Amir didn't show up so we
stopped by his house that evening and he said that his father had him go to
church with him that morning, but that he really wants to come to our church
and that he is going to this Sunday. We gave him a Book of Mormon and he said
he would start on it right away, we also invited him to a temple tour on
Wednesday night and he is very excited for that. Anthony Hernandez, one of the
boys that was at the baptism that goes to school with him is going to come to
the temple tour with us so that will be very good. Amir also asked us when we
are going to come back and teach him and he said could I give you my phone
number so you can call me and come back. Ha! I said yes of course and we got
things set up to go and teach him this week. He seriously is like the golden
investigator I am so excited about him, he really wants to learn about the
church and Jesus Christ. He is a really good levelheaded kid and has got some
amazing goals and plans for his life, very determined type that is awesome.
Well that’s basically the coolest thing that happened this week. Supposedly
there was supposed to be a big hurricane this past weekend, but all that
happened was it rained a lot like it usually does. We have driven most of the
week, but since we have limited miles we have biked too and we just get soaking
wet which can be so annoying because we have to run home and change and throw
our clothes in the dryer, but that’s ok I guess... Rain is good... Holy cow
though one night we were riding our bikes to a potentials house and there was a
gator in the pond we rode by and I swear the thing was 8 feet long, just
huge!!! Kinda scary but cool, I wanted to take a picture but we were in such a
hurry, I will have to get a picture next time. We also had some J-Dubs
knock at our door during our companion study the other morning. Ha they were
trying to give us some hand out type junk and talk about what they believe, umm
sounds familiar... But we just introduced ourselves and said that we were
missionaries from the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints and they felt
so dumb it looked like haha they didn't know what to say to us and so we asked
them about their belief in God and how they came to know for themselves. They
told us a tiny bit and talked about how we don't earn our way to heaven,(they
think that’s what we are trying to do) ya know tryin to stump us and we were
like you are right! All we have to do is keep the commandants and have faith in
Jesus Christ and his atonement and repent and be baptized by someone who holds
the proper authority like John the Baptist in the Bible and receive the gift of
the holy ghost and endure to the end, haha they felt so awkward, and we were
like well we won’t keep you, would you like one of these pass a long cards to
learn more about Christ and they said no of course, but it was funny. Well
nothing else exciting, I have to go now! Love you all!
-Sister
Jamison
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