A Good Week (March 11, 2013)

It has been a pretty good week. There is a family from South Sudan who we teach English to the mom, and we invited her to attend a baptism and she came. It was really good for her. Our goal is to help her with English so we can teach her about the Gospel. She goes to a Baptist church and the kids have been taught and really loved what we taught, and I guess were asking about baptism with previous missionaries. We always share quick lessons from the Bible or the Book of Mormon with them, but I think we need to start focusing on the kids more. We also learned that a part member family we are teaching will hopefully be baptized soon. They are not married, but are moving that up to next month. Their original plan was to get married in October, but now they are going to have a small marriage in April and have a ceremony in October with their family. The mom is the nonmember and she wants this so that her husband can baptize her which will be really good. The kids also want to be baptized, but I guess they want to wait until May or June when their mom has a baby because lots of their family will be there. I hope we can have them be baptized all together, and hope that I stay here next transfer. They are an awesome family and already act like members, they just need to be baptized. They only went to sacrament yesterday because the mom was too uncomfortable with the baby, but they went home and read scriptures together as a family. They are so awesome and am glad I have been able to teach them. The family we had a baptismal date with I still have not seen, but I did meet the daughter briefly at the door. We keep trying, so hopefully we will be able to catch up with them soon. It has been a good week, and look forward to this coming week and seeing how I can improve and help others change.