September 29, 2009

Hey!So this past week has been awesome. On Wednesday we taught Carlis one of the new member lessons. She was beaming...there is something different about her now that she is baptized. She told me while we were there that at the beginning, she was mad, and wanted to know why I kept pestering her, but she told me that now she thanks me for it, that she owes it all to us, that we never gave up on her. It was great to hear her say that, and to hear her refer to us as her friends. :) On Thursday we had an amazing miracle. The mission office called us and gave us a referell for a lady named Becky Marquez. We gave her a call and set up an appointment to meet with her later that day. When we went over and taught her we got to know her better. Turns out, she has been trying to get in contact with missionaries for almost a month now. She has gone to Temple Square, had tours and watched all the movies there, has a Book of Mormon and has started reading it. She says that she knows it is true too! When we committed her for baptism, she told us of course, that she has been waiting for us. Ahhhh!!! :D She is getting baptized October 17th! She is so prepared for the Gospel. She has done a lot of studying and knows a lot already. We are so thankful. On Friday we had dinner with the Nordgrans. They are a pretty young family that I know would get along really well with Jenni & Terrell. They even have a little boy named Gavin. On Saturday we had another miracle happen. We went over to a members home, and previously they had told us about one of their unbaptized grandsons who is 12 yrs. old. Well when we went by he was there, we taught him the Restoration, and committed him for baptism. He has a date in October as well. I guess he has been going to church for a while and wants to do it. On Sunday we gave a talk in Sacrament meeting in the Peacefield Ward. Then we taught Relief Society in the Layton Park ward about missionary work. It went well and was a lot of fun. After that we had a baptismal service for one of our investigators Evan Jones. It was a nice service, the Spirit was strong, I was able to give the talk on the Holy Ghost and Elder Williams was able to do the confirmation. Brother Handy, a member of the ward performed the baptism. Later that night we taught the Anderson kids in the Snow's home. Sis. Snow told me you guys had been emailing back and fourth and showed me the email...it was fun. We found out this morning that I am staying here in Layton for another transfer, as well as my companion Elder Williams. I think I would have been happy either way if I had left or stayed so it's all good. We are having a lot of success and are having fun. I think we have 10 investigators and 4 of them have baptismal dates. Things are going really well and my testimony is strong. I love you guys and miss you. The church is true!!!Love, Elder Watts