Baptism, Temple, New Investigator, Great week!

Family and Friends,

Well I hope you all have had as wonderful a past week and a half as I have. As you can tell from the title of this e-mail a lot has happened! Joey was baptized last Saturday. There were so many people there that we had to move everyone into the chapel, it was wonderful. His dad gave a talk and did a great job comparing the Holy Ghost to a GPS on a phone, when we are connected it can tell us where to go, but we don't necessarily always have to listen. We can take our own path, we just won't get to our destination as quickly and easily.  Sister Ott and Sister Haas sang Baptism while I accompanied them, it was fun to be a part of the program. Joey is such a great example to his family and the ward, we were so excited he was finally able to be baptized.

We went to the Redlands Temple this morning. It has been a beautiful day and it was so nice to be able to feel the Spirit there. I saw the Kilburns (from Diamond Bar) and Sister Farris (from Apple Valley) while I was there which was so nice. 

We had an adventure this past week when on Wednesday we got a call from some elders in Ontario who wanted us to attend a lesson with them for a new investigator they found at the park who lives in our area. We were really excited and scheduled to go with them the next day, then a little while later we got another call from them saying the lesson the next day wouldn't work so could we come right then to the library for this lesson. We dropped what we were doing (weekly planning, which we could do later) and headed down to the library. We had a great lesson teaching the Restoration of the Gospel and were setting up a return appointment when we learned she doesn't actually live in our area. It was pretty funny to then realize we would have to pass her off yet again to another set of sisters, but she is a golden investigator and really excited to learn so we think it will all turn out alright.

I realized I haven't told you much about the investigators we are working with, so here is a little update:

Joey was baptized this past week! He is great and we are excited for him to receive the Priesthood soon.

Ali received her answer that the church is true but is really struggling since her dad is not very supportive. She just turned 15 and is being faced with a lot of opposition from her family, but she can see that this can really help her, so she wants to keep learning and coming to church. She is wonderful!

Beth is doing well. She is the daughter in law of one of the couples in our ward and has 4 kids. She is so sweet and has been coming to church almost every week since I have been here. She should be baptized, but she just doesn't know it yet :D

Sebastian is the 10 year old son of a less active family in the ward. We are teaching the family together and trying to help them all come back to the church. He is super fun and excited to learn.

Well those are our investigators right now. Any and all prayers for them would be appreciated. They are all wonderful!

I love you and will write again on Monday!

Love,

Sister Cook