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| Springtime in Princeton N.J. |
I met with Sister Bagley, the Branch Presidents wife, on
Sunday at Stake Conference and she told me that she had talked to you. She
really is so wonderful. I hope that you get to meet her one day. Her whole
family gives their all to help us. It's amazing. We depend on them so much and
they always pull through for us. I haven't received your package yet. Maybe
today or tomorrow.
You asked about the people we teach so here is a little
about those we are currently teaching. Right now, we have a 23 year old
young man from Mexico, who has plans to be baptized on May 4. He is so prepared. I have learned to just love him so much. He
means so much to me. He has so much faith and is willing to follow through with
all of the commitments that we give him, however, Satan is working very hard
with him and his family and the people that he lives with here. He is separated
from him family, they are still in Mexico. BUT he is
prepared. I have so much faith in him. I'll send you a picture when he gets
baptized.
A 28 year old mom of 2 autistic twins, she works at
a restaurant (that's how we met her. a member took us out to lunch and she was
our waitress. We gave her a pass-a-long card and now here we are). She has a
baptism date for this Sunday, but we are going to have to push it back. We
haven't been able to teach all of the lessons yet. She is extremely prepared as
well. She really wants to be baptized.
A 40 year old man, from Guatemala, he is the brother of a
member, and he has been taught for a really long time. The only thing that is
stopping him from getting baptized is going to church. He works every day
except Thursdays, so we have been praying so hard that he can have Sundays off
and come to church.
A 21 year old man, from Costa
Rica, and he lives with a member family. Now he is taking the lessons with us. He
just needs to come to church one more time before he is baptized.
Another 40 year old man, from Guatemala. He has a very difficult life. Please pray for him. He drinks a lot and has an awful
living situation.
A 9 year old girl, born in America, but her family is Mexican.
She had a baptism date for the 20th of this month, but last minute her mom
decided that she couldn't be baptized because "being baptized in two
churches is really bad" (she was baptized as an infant in the catholic
church). We are just waiting for her mom to say yes.
An Evangelical man, we met him in an
appointment with another potential investigator. Turns out the other person we
were going to talk to doesn't really have interest, but he is very interested.
He is super friendly and has TONS of questions. It's actually really hard to
focus on a lesson because he has so many questions :) haha. It's awesome. He
has SO much potential.
A family: They are a miracle. We had their name as a
reference, so we knocked on their door on Sunday, but they wouldn't open it all
the way. The mom came to the door and said "who sent you here?" We
explained who we were and that we had their name as a reference from several months
ago. Surprisingly they let us in and we began teaching a lesson. Immediately
there was such a love that was felt between us. They offered to feed us, so we
had dinner (a second dinner for us- learn this: if you eat with them...they
will love you...so we did and it worked) and they seemed to be interested. They
are very firm in their catholic beliefs, but right before we left, we asked if
we could come back. They were so excited! They invited us back over the next
Sunday and to their son's birthday party. We have plans to go and help, and
hopefully find some new investigators. We love them so much!!!
We teach a lot of less actives too. One of them actually
came to church last Sunday! It was amazing! We had been trying to get him to
church for YEARS. In one of the lessons we said, "So...hermano....we will
see you at church this Sunday." He wouldn't commit. We called him everyday
and read a scripture to him and then said "we'll see you at church this Sunday".
He still wouldn't commit. All the way until Saturday night he said that he
wasn't coming. Sunday morning we called him and he said "When is my ride
coming. I've laid out my clothes and I'll be waiting when they get here".
He came! It is very difficult for him to stay all 3 hours because his body is breaking
down (he was a drug and alcohol addict), but he stayed all 3 hours. After
church he said, "well....I came. You can't bother me about coming any
more. I won't be coming back for a really long time." But in my mind I was
thinking "well, if we got you here once, we can get you here again",
so I told him "that's ok, we'll take this one step at a time. We'll see
you next month". Once again, the process has begun. He'll deny that he is
coming, but I have faith that he'll come again. This time we have a whole month
to work with ;)
I hope that helps give you a picture of what my life is like
out here. It's the best life ever. I can't see myself doing anything
else.
Yesterday, I met with Elder Perry. He came to our
All-Mission-Conference and shook everyone's hand. When he shook mine, he said,
"Sister Childs....are you from the Salt Lake
area?" I replied saying, "yes". He said, "That name sounds
very familiar. I think I know some Childs in that area". I have not
forgotten the time when we were having dinner next to him in the Joseph Smith
Memorial Building.
I have remembered that ever since it happened. I'm sure he has forgotten, but I
haven't :)
I'll be sure to send pictures next week in front of Princeton :)
I love you!!!!!
Hermana Childs
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