This week was miraculous!!!!!!! We went from zero baptismal dates to five dates and we had 30 total lessons! We also found five new investigators!
Jaderious Moffett finally has a baptismal date! He has been meeting with the missionaries for approximately four years now! We have been teaching him and his father the entire time I have been here in The Colony and he finally committed to a date (June 6th)! The spirit was so strong in the lesson and ever since that lesson he has been so happy and almost giddy!
We were headed to a lesson with a potential investigator who ended up not being home, but his roommate, Sabrina was home and interested in talking to us! She works at the local grocery store and she braids hair (the tiny little braids that African American people tend to have). She is so humble and sincere. She has a baptismal date for the middle of June.
We also were able to meet with Mary Lynn and her two grandsons, Brenden and Sheldon again and commit them to a new date. We hope that they will become more solid this time around and actively prepare for their date.
Marilouis, Josh's grandmother, fed us dinner the other night! She is super sweet, but she has a lot of questions. We hope to be able to help her focus more on the spirit and faith.
Bennie is still struggling with smoking, but we are going to try to start the program again this week, it keeps getting put off because his parents have scheduling issues.
We got a referral from the Dallas 6th ward! =) A member I used to know in Dallas 6th brought her less active son and his non-member fiance to our ward yesterday and told us to baptize her! =) We haven't actually met with her yet so we aren't sure how she feels about that, but it was such a miracle to receive this referral!
We had a tornado warning on Sunday morning! When the sirens went off we weren't sure at first what it was, but Sister Warner brought us downstairs to prepare to hid out in their closet. Luckily the tornado didn't really hit The Colony, just a lot of wind and sideways rain. We had flash floods and lightning storms after that. The weather here is so dramatic! Today the skies are clear, bright blue, and sunny! But we here there will be more storms this week.
I have been working on my faith by making my prayers more meaningful and bold and by doing so my contacts and lessons and interactions in general are becoming more meaningful and bold in reflection of my prayers. We have prayed specifically to find those we can invite to be baptized and that we are able to be harvesters, not just seed planters, and it is working! The Lord really wants his children to be baptized so they can return to Him, so praying for baptisms is a way we can serve the Lords purpose. I have heard it said once that "it is not about the baptisms, but it really is about the baptisms" baptism allows Heavenly Father's children to receive access to the atonement that they otherwise would not have.
Love,
Sister Jones
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