Hello
Khrobkhrua!
So, this week
was amazing! So many miracles!
First and
foremostly, Sister NamLeg got baptized yesterday! She was planning on being
baptized on the 26th, but changed her mind because she felt ready and wanted to
be baptized sooner! So exciting! So, we finished up teaching our lessons and
then she interviewed. She was so nervous. She literally memorized chapter 3 of
Preach My Gospel for the interview! haha She knows her stuff! Anyway, yesterday
she was baptized and she was so happy and excited. It was such an amazing day!
Two of the Elder's investigators were also baptized yesterday. Sunday was so
awesome! There was so much joy and happiness welcoming these three into the
ward! I feel so blessed to be serving here right now!
We also have a
couple new investigators from street contacting who have baptismal dates for
next month! The Elders are experiencing miracles as well! We are all so
grateful to God for His help and direction in this work.
Tuesday was
fun! Teaching English has all of a sudden become much more enjoyable with the
Lao Elders' program! Last week's grammar principle was on "be" verbs.
At the end of the lesson we played the Mormon Message "I AM a Child of
God." We taught the whole class the song and they all sang along to the
music video. It was really special to see all these students singing that they
were children of God. It brought the spirit to that English lesson.
So, the mission
now has a new standard for inviting. We have always been asked to go street
contacting for two hours every day. Now, we are asked to invite at least 20
people to be baptized every day (per person, not companionship). It's fun! And
when we go inviting I'd say we invite at least 40-50 each. We're seeing
results! Lots of interested people just from street contacting.
President Senior really has an amazing vision for this mission
and pushes us to work really hard. Really grateful to be serving under him! We
also have new baptismal pass-along cards that have a place to fill out their
name, our name, our number, and their baptismal date when we go inviting.
Awesome! So far for the month of January there have been 100 baptisms! There is
still one more week and I am way excited to see how many more are baptized next
week!
This weekend
there was an Australian RM and his daughter who came to Bangkapi. The
daughter's name is Emma and she's 12. On Saturday there was a YW activity at
the church that we invited our investigator to, and Emma showed up as well. So
they asked me to translate for her and join in the activity! Way fun!! I also
got to go to YW's on Sunday and translate. I haven't been to YW's here,
so I really enjoyed that. Also, Emma's dad was a missionary when Brother
Goodman (my mission prep teacher at the Y) was mission president here. They've
kept in good contact and have done some work together here. He's going to tell
B. Goodman hello for me! So fun!
Today I read
Alma 44. It was so intense! Holy Cow! I would be way scared to not obey
him if I was a Lamanite! Anyway, today our district is heading to Asoke to have
lunch with President Senior!! So, I'm going to start sending pics so we can
head out soon!
I love you all
so much!
Have an amazing
week!
Love,
Liz :)
