Dear family and friends,
We have been working with our wonderful family and teaching Aprillia all the lessons so she can be baptized this coming Sunday.
We found out that Jecinta's mom isn't too keen on letting her get
baptized because she has already been Christened Catholic, but hopefully
we'll get to see more of her to see where she really stands. Zandria's
date has been pushed back to the 27th because she doesn't quite feel
ready. We hadn't seen Chozan for at least a week, so we had assumed that
he would want to push his date back as well, if he was even still
really interested. But they had promised to come to church on Sunday,
so we waited expectantly through all of sacrament meeting, hoping that
they would come in late. When they didn't, Sister Rooney and I were
devastated! We stressed out all through the second hour class, and
afterwards we decided to just go over to their house and invite them to
come to the 1:00
ward. So we left church an hour early and just showed up at their
house! Turns out they were awake and ready to go...but their ride didn't
come. :( We called everyone we could think of to get a ride for them to
church, and we finally got ahold of a sister in our ward who was
willing to drive them! So Chozan, Aprillia, Natalya, and their little
sister Impala all went to the chapel and attended all three hours of
church together! We sat with Natalya and Chozan in class and Chozan
seemed to really enjoy it. After church, we showed Aprillia the
baptismal font so she could see where she's going to get baptized. We
asked Chozan how he felt about baptism, and he said, "I feel great!" We
asked him when he felt like he could get baptized and he said, "After
Aprillia?" Sister Rooney and I were like, "Wait, straight after?" And
Chozan just said yes like it was the most obvious thing! We had no idea
that he was still reading and praying and wanting to get baptized!
Apparently he's been reading all the pamphlets we gave him and studying
with Natalya, his sister who is a member. His other sister has been
giving him a hard time for "wanting to be Mormon" but he doesn't care.
He just knows it's right!
They had planned to get baptized on the 13th, but with some
complications with the chapel and the members it might be pushed back to
the 19th. But as long as they get baptized, that's all that matters.
We've got a busy week ahead of us, because we have to teach Chozan all
of the lessons before he can have his baptismal interview and all that
jazz. But we are so, so excited! Heavenly Father definitely answers
prayers and prepares people to hear the gospel!!
xoxo Sister Larsen
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