This week was a really good week! alot of really cool things
happened! so we have been visiting this family called the big mountains
alot lately because it is a part member family and the husband has been
seeing the missionaries for years but has not seen them for like six
months. but every time we have stopped by he was never there. so last
week we get a call from him, and he says, sisters i
want to get baptized! it was the best call we have ever heard! so we
went over to his house and talked to him a little bit and we asked
him why he wants to get baptized now? because he has been meeting with
the missionaries for like four years. he said that before, he used to
just have the missionaries over to argue with them because he thought it
was fun. he also said to have a good argument though, you have to do
your research. so he was researching things about the LDS church just so
he could argue haha. but as he did that, he began to become really
interested in the church and he really wants to be sealed to his family!
which is really cool! so we have been over there already three times
teaching him the lessons. he doesn't have a date when he wants to get
baptized but we think it's going to be soon but we don't want to push
anything on him because he still has a few concerns. We are so excited
for him and his family!
we were able to meet with Orlando again last week to see how
everything was going. he is still very interested and his kids are too!
somehow when we were talking with them, baptism was brought up and his
kids were like i want to get baptized so badly! then they asked us, can
we get baptized again?? and we were like of course you can! they are
catholic so they were baptized when they were babies. we invited them
all to be baptized on October 26th. they said YES!!!!!!! we are really
excited for them and hopefully they will be ready on that date.
On saturday, the whole Tri-Cities had a day of service going on! so
all the members from the LDS church went out and cleaned up their
cities. We invited Orlando to come to this and he came! he was so amazed
that so many members of the church came out and cleaned up the
communities. He seemed like he was really excited and he had a great
time! i think this helped him really like our church alot more and he
was able to meet alot of the members in our ward. Sister Young and i
were assigned to clean up the sidewalks and pull a whole bunch of weeds
along the street with like twenty other people. when we were pulling
weeds this old man came out of his house and asked Sister Young and I if
we could help him. we were like sure! he lead us to the side of his
house and there were tons of dead trees and branches just chilling
there. so we pulled them out of his yard and he said thank you so much.
He told us that was praying a few days earlier for someone to help him
clean up his yard and then we showed up. This was awesome! we were able
to tell him about us and our church. he told us he was really intersted!
we invited him to the free lunch after the service project and he came!
we introduced him to the missionaries that cover his area and they are
going to help him out more and teach him about the Gospel! this was
really cool! i really do know that Heavenly Father answers all of our
prayers and he will deliver all the people who are prepared to hear the
gospel into our hands. it was no coincidence that we, the missionaries
happened to be weeding in front of his house and that we were assigned
to weed because there were a ton of different projects we could have
been assigned to. I love this Gospel so much and i love serving the
people in Washington. i feel like i already love them all so much!
Hope all is well with everyone!
Love, Sister Lindmeir
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