This week was GREAT!!! The highlight was definitely the Baptism of Brother Randolf Ben Bittner! :) I like his name, quite sophisticated! Anyway, it was a great baptism!! Not without stress though, Sister White who had a talk, and Bishop who was baptizing him didn't show up until there was like 2 minutes to the baptism....it was stressful, we were just running around freaking out! The bishop was running late b/c the youth were coming back from up by Seattle, so we didn't get mad at him :) Randy is so sweet!! He just has already changed so much! We weren't super worried about the baptism, but we were so nervous on Sunday for him getting Confirmed. If you don't remember he was baptized 4 years ago, but never got confirmed, so needless to say when he walked in the church at 9:59 we let out a HUGE sigh of relief!! He was able to get confirmed, and the coolest part was that Bro. Nielson got to confirm him. Bro Nielson was the ward mission leader at the time that Randy was baptized the first time, and he said Randy not showing up to get confirmed was the hardest part of being a ward mission leader, he'd always been sad about it, so for him to be able to confirm Randy a member of the Church and give him the Holy Ghost, it was such a MIRACLE!!!
The rest of this week was a normal missionary week!! I'll go through each of our investigators again like last week!!
Rich Dent: Rich is back on date for baptism and should be getting baptized this next Saturday the 1st!! Can't wait for that, he's realized he needs to do it, now it's a matter of getting over his addictions!! He's doing so good!! He came to church yesterday and one of the speakers in Sacrament talked about the 12 steps of the churches addiction recovery program WHAT!! Inspired!!
Brad Baselt: Brad is on date to be baptized on Feb 8 (he's gonna be out of town for the superbowl...like everyone up here, next sunday will be interesting!) We haven't even taught him about tithing yet, and yesterday at church he asked, "Hey, so how do you pay tithing here? I feel so blessed to be given so much, I want to give back".....WHAT!! It was so cool, we told him he didn't have to pay til he was baptized and he said, well 2 week then!! He is such a sweet man, see service works!! He's the one we met thanksgiving and in dresses and all we help load huge logs from the side of the road to his truck!! God works in miracles!!!
Donny Schmidt: I LOVE THE SCHMIDTS!!!! I honestly love this family so much!! Jasmine is a LA member and they have 3 little kids William (5), Delila (3), and Natalie (19 months, yes she was born on March 27 or 29th, she's like the same age as Avery, it's kind of fun). We met them ward listing, and since then they have been awesome!! They all came to church yesterday including Donny, the Non-member husband!! He is the coolest guy ever!! He loves the gospel right now and learning about it!! In sunday school he offered to PRAY!!! It was so cool!! The other talk in sacrament meeting was for them, it was about Eternal Families and making it to the temple!! I can't wait to see them sealed as a family!! They are at the point in their lives where he is ready for the gospel, and she is ready for the temple!! I LOVE THE GOSPEL!!!! It truly BLESSES FAMILIES!!!!
Mariela and Jeffrey were both at their other parents houses this weekend so we weren't able to really see them!! They're both doing good though!! we have a lesson with the Molina's tonight, we're gonna paint prayer rocks! It should be a blast!!! Then we have an appointment with brad!! It will be great!!
Well, that was this week!! This next weekend should be craziness with the Seahawks being in the Superbowl!! Everyone is getting ready for their huge parties, we still don't know what they're gonna do with us that night, maybe we'll get to watch the game, that would be pretty sweet!! We'll have to see!!
I hope you are all doing well! I want you all to know that I know that this church is true, I have never been more sure about anything in my life!! I'm grateful that I have a Savior that can help me through every obstacle of my life, no matter how bad it may be!! I'm so grateful that I have been able to see others use the Atonement in their lives, and because they have I know that not only I can, but EACH ONE OF YOU can too!!
I LOVE YOU SOOOOOO MUCH!!!!! Have a great week!!
LOVE YOU!
Sister Thomas
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