I love my mommy!
This week was awesome! We picked R the Haitain back up. We'd be praying so hard this whole week. We saw him again and I had no idea what to do. I didn't want to loose him. I felt that silent little subtle good prompting to just be excited for his baptism. So I told him how excited I was to see him get baptized. He looked a little confused for a bit. But I told him how he was experiencing attacks from the adversary because this was true and that he could get over them in order to be more happy. By the end he was excited again and we had our typical exchange of goodbye across the parking lot when we leave his appartment. "I love you R!!!" "Ya man, I love you more! One love brotha!" We also had a lesson at a members house on the Word of Wisdom. The member explained that his reason for not wanting to join shouldn't be simply because he doesn't want to stop drinking coffee. Then he was no different from the youngman that refused to give up his riches in order to follow Christ. It was a great Spirit.
There was an amazing baptism for a family of 3 in the Clear Creek zone leader ward. The Spirit there was great. R wasn't able to come so that was a bummer. And only T and Y came. But T is now really excited to be baptized. And it's only strengthened Y to. She had no idea what to expect (being from Muslim culture) She explained when they saw an LDS video about Christ and saw Jesus get baptized they were really confused why some guy was helping him to get his hair wet hahaha. The baptism helped me to trust the Spirit. To forget all my weaknesses and things I do wrong and just focus on bringing the Spirit to people's lives. I got up for testimonies and shared a scripture from Alma inviting all to be lay aside their fears that were keeping them from being free of their guilt and wrongs so that they could be baptized and be free of all those things. It's tough that the adversary keeps so many from the truth. That we too often give into our fears when they're only making things worse from us. We need to let go and follow the good feelings in our heart! Not the doubt and fear! Who wants to follow doubt and fear? Take a chance and follow the good!
We talked to the 4 girls about being baptized even though Steven can't do it. We were nervous if they'd all be there and if anyone else would be. But it worked out perfectly to where it was just them 4 and their grandmother who has been a huge deal in all of this. Oumiama and Yasmina said, "well no offense to him, but I can't wait around forever. I want the blessings of baptism." They're so awesome. It was tough for K. She said she'd pray about it. It's really too bad they're dad can't for awhile. There's no telling when he will be able to either. The good news is they really want to be baptized soon. They're very inspiring. Then Y said, "wouldn't it be so cute to wait till you were baptized with your husband!" a bunch of "awwwws". Then the grandmother "but you'd miss out on all those blessings you could be having!" Kaleigh: "your missing the point! That'd still be adorable!!" hahaha. Funny girls. But they definitely are serious about being baptized soon.
B and L haven't been going anywhere so we planned to drop them but they made things easy and told us how they want to some day learn these things but feel bad because they're not putting forth effort to find out. Then the McDs dropped us last Monday over a text. That was a huge bummer but we'll be stopping by and seeing why soon.
We had a great member lesson with a family and two other boys from the ward last night. One of the boys had decided not to serve a mission and the other two were preparing to so we talked from their Duty to God about preparing to. All 4 of them are going to come out with us more so we're hopeful that will help them all in some way.
The Lord always knows what's best for us more than we do. We're all pretty hard headed to authorities but the Lord gives us callings, not our Bishops and so on. So we should trust them.
I love you all! Stay calm and preach the Gospel!
-Elder Edgel
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