There may be a delay on Peter’s baptism… “He told us that he talked with his parents about his baptism and they were a little worried about it since he is in a foreign country, which I can understand. He is 20 so he doesn’t need permission to be baptized but he doesn’t want to disappoint his parents which I can also understand” They told him that he needed to ask the Lord if he should be baptized and he said he would. They agreed to call him on Saturday to find out the answer.
They had a new investigator not show up for an appointment but are hopeful they can get in touch with him soon and they had to move Sina’s baptismal date back but he said “that is ok, we want her to be really ready before she enters the water! We are praying hard for her! She will be baptized, it's just a matter of leaving it in the Lord's hands and letting him decide the date that would be the best for her! Everything will work out well!”
Peter and Kwame’s scheduled baptism day arrives…
Saturday morning! The day of the Baptism!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! What a great day!! It was awesome!! Ok so we spent the whole day at the church filling up the font! We tapped the water from the bathroom sink and just sat and studied scrips and helped Fratello Frascaro with his computer stuff, had some really good conversations betwixt out selves! it was great! We also went and got some really great sandwiches! (Panini) At four we called peter but his phone was off! We prayed and called again but his phone was still off and it wouldn't work! We actually never got a hold of him. He never came. We did find out that the family he works for and lives with's father died and he was with them, so we figure that is what happened. He still will be baptized, in the Lord's time. So the other part of the story is with Kwame! He called us telling us he was sick and didn’t want to do it!! We told him to come to church early and we would give him a blessing! We told him to come at six and we would talk and then watch Finding Faith in Christ to strengthen his testimony until time for the baptism at 7:30. So we went outside to wait for him and around 6:30 he goes walking past! We chased him down and asked him where he was going! He told us he would be back, don’t worry....we worried! After about an hour he showed up again and didn’t want to do it. He was nervous, and he didn’t feel well so he wanted to push it back. We gave him a blessing and in the end he decided to do it! I was able to baptize him! It was a great experience! It took three times though because he has a bum leg that kept floating up. But in the end he was baptized! After the baptism he told us he felt no illness at all!!!!!
THE CHURCH IS TRUE!! IT REALLY IS!!!
It WAS SOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO COOL!!!!!!!!!
WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
It rocked! It was fantastic! We had the Anziani from Lecce come and the Sorelle from Taranto sang a song that was really good! it was a great service and Kwame was just GLOWING!! he kept telling us how happy he was!! The Lord immediately poured out blessings on him!
I LOVE IT!!! IT WAS SUCH A MIRACLE!!!!
We put our faith in the Lord and He helped us out BIG TIME!!
IT WAS AWESOME!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! MY JOY IS FULL!!!!!!! WOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
THEN Sunday!!! man that was great too!!! Kwame showed up in the white shirt and tie we had given him as a baptismal present! He was looking great!! Richard a new member as of 4 weeks (the one who introduced us to Kwame and peter) passed the sacrament. Then Kwame received the Holy Ghost! it was great! Kwame was just beaming! It rocked!!! I LOVED IT!!!
I LOVE BEING A MISSIONARY!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
WOOOOOOOOO HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Then on Tuesday another mission miracle…
ok Tuesday! The day the angels guided our path ten miles into the wilderness to find the lost sheep!! We had received last week from church headquarters aka the MTC referral center (really rare here) that there was a couple named Roy and Bonnie that wanted the "joy to the world" DVD. Tuesday we finally found the time to go out there since they live in a little city in our pros. zone but still about a 20 minute train ride. The city is called Ostuni, or aka the white city! it is this really old city up on this hill! it is really beautiful! The thing is, the referral we got had no address, just a street, not even a house number! But we knew we had to do it, and could do it with the Lord! So we set off walking towards the city from the train station, that took about an hour, then we walked though the city asking here and there for directions. but really what we were doing was following the Spirit, literally. We walked in a direction until we felt we should turn! Then we would ask someone where this street was. they kept telling us that is was a long long way walking, about 6 or 7 kilometers. But still we felt this drive to keep going! We had no idea where we were going. We ended up getting directions from this guy to just keep walking straight after this round about. So we did. In total we walked about 10 kilometers on this tiny dirt/paved rode in the middle of no where. Just countryside. Yet inside we knew that we were going the right direction. We never turned back. we just kept going and going. It was beautiful! but desolate. We did meet this really cool German guy that had studied English with missionaries in Germany 15 years ago! He was great! He had a Book of Mormon that he had actually read that morning before he saw us in his remote area of the earth as he called it! he was great! So after him we kept walking and walking. Finally we saw a sign that told us we were on the correct street!! We were so excited we took a picture by it! lol! And then after a while more we saw this house with a doorbell so we rang it...nothing....nothing....and then....nothing. But Anz. wood looked behind us and saw an England license plate and we both KNEW that it was the house. We ran over there and saw several other cars with England license plates. The house was being built so we didn’t know if there would be anyone there so we just yelled HELLO! This guy came to the door and we asked him "are you Roy?" he said "yes I am" then we said "we are the Mormons!" His wife came running out and said "you found me! you found me!" " come in!" so we went in and told them the story! literally angels guided us right to this house! We were in a city we had never been in before, didn’t know, and had no idea where we were, yet something told us to go, and where to go! it was incredible! Roy is from Wales and Bonnie is from Texas! She cooked us some really great food! then we watched “Joy to the World”! Bonnie not knowing where the church was and having lived in their countryside home for three years was some what less active, and after the movie was just crying! She is coming to church on Sunday! It was so cool to see how the Lord works to bring back the 1 to the ninety and nine! It was really cool! I have no doubt angels literally guided us there! it was so cool!! Roy gave us a ride home luckily and we are going back soon! The cool thing is too is the referral we got was from her son. He had called the MTC with her address ordering the DVD so we could go see her! and it worked! God LOVES HIS CHILDREN and will do EVERYTHING to get them back! It was such a miracle!! Such a miracle! A literal mission story! It was awesome!!!! It was the best day ever!! They are so cool!!! Man it was so great!!!
This is Ostuni where we went to find the referral!Well that has been it pretty much this week! It has been incredible and full of miracles! I love being a missionary!
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