August 19, 2013

Omar's Baptism

This past week has been a week of miracles. To start off, for one of our dinner appointments no one was going to be feeding us so I decided that Papa Murphy’s Pizza sounded great for dinner, a vegetarian with chicken and bacon added to it and a cowboy pizza, my favorite!   After we got the pizza and were walking back to our car this lady stopped her car right next to us, rolled down her window and said “how are you two great looking guys doing today?”   We said were doing great!  She said, “So, what are you two doing around Independence?”  We told her that we are missionaries from The Church of Jesus Christ Of Latter Day Saints. She started talking to us saying that her parents were baptized to our church years before and they gave her a Book of Mormon and she was debating whether she should read it or not and she wanted to talk to us and find out what our message was all about and she just found us by herself. She wants to get taught the gospel and she is excited to learn all she can.  I hope we can teach her and help answer all the questions she has been having about things that have been bothering her for a long time.  I love her already and know she will be baptized!

Some crazy girls in our Blue Mills Ward

 Well, sounds like school is starting back up and sounds like the drama will too! I always hated that about high school - that was the worst part. That training was great was it i hope you can tell me more about it and it talked about how every member needs to do their part in the missionary work it is so true that everyone needs put there foot forward and help us with this amazing work that blesses so many lives. Omar's baptism was so amazing. It was a very spiritual service. He and all of us were crying throughout the service.  It was so great to see him go into the water and come back up a new man, so clean and pure. It makes me so happy. After the service he personally thanked me for helping him along his way and teaching him.  I told him that transfers were this week and I am probably going to move and he started crying and I said that I will always remember him and I will keep in contact with him. Transfers are this week and I know that most likely I am going to get transferred and I will be ok with it even though I love this ward as my family and I know it will be hard to leave, but it will be doing the Lord’s work.

 I only have one request whenever you send a package. Wait till I email you next week and I need a new CTR ring.  I picked out which one I wanted- Titanium with White Carbon Inlay CTR. I gave my last one to one of the priests in the ward to remember me by and that I will always remember him. Anything else you want to send would be great!

 I love you,

 Elder Davies