***Title translation: (Latin) What a great reward.
Hello my wonderful family and friends,
So
many things happened this last week. Florida is definitely getting a lot
warmer. It's been in the eighties for most of the time and also the first
rainstorms are starting up. What happens is that it gets pretty cloudy
and then a storm that rivals El Niño comes in and proceeds to drench everything
in the area. That has happened twice so far and each time I have gotten
really wet. That's basically what the summer will be like every day.
Joyful.
We
had a baptism last Sunday. Whoo!!!! Michael Ferrell is his name and
it was really cool because the rest of his family is saying that they are going
to be baptized as well. His dad, Greg, basically bore his testimony in
Elders Quorum and says that he knows that the church is true and really wants
to be baptized. His sister Michele is also planning on being baptized by
the end of March. We also have several other baptisms set up for March
and are hoping they will go through.
There
are some cool stories about our investigators. Jerry has been flying
through the Book of Mormon and doing well with the lessons and really enjoys
everything we teach him. Bridget and Richard are also doing well and are
progressing. We taught a big family yesterday and they all want to meet
with us again. Basically we have a bunch of potential baptisms that could
happen, the hard part is just getting them to church and getting all the
lessons taught but if they are prepared they will make it.
Zone
conference was last Thursday and we learned lots of stuff there about driver
safety and more about how the mission can do better. One ambitious thing
the mission president wants to do is get to where all the missionaries work
with the members to find and teach investigators. They also want to get a
bunch of baptisms this year and next year which will take lots of work but it
is doable.
Some
of the other Elders had a really disconcerting experience. They went to
this other church yesterday with someone and it turned out to be a Pentecostal
church. The whole thing was weird because they started speaking in tongues (which was unintelligible gibberish) and everyone started with creepy laughter
and some people were shaking spasmodically. They said that it wasn't
good at all. There are a bunch of different churches around here and many
of them have ideas that totally are not true at all.
Well,
that's a pretty good explanation of this last week. Lots of cool stuff
happened and I saw lots of our investigators feel the spirit.
Elder
Fabricius
Picture from Michael's s baptism:
Elder
Treasure, me, Michael and Elder Randall
