What up! I am so happy to be a missionary. Every day I get to learn new things and have new experiences that are shaping me into the person God wants me to be. Talk about being in the refiner's fire!
Anyway, now that that's out of the way, we have 4 people on date for baptism for the month of June! Hopefully we can get 3 more on date this month as well. How great is the Lord? Super great! So many miracles have happened for our investigators to be where they are right now.
Cool experience with our 8 year old investigator K! We talked about Joseph Smith with her and the First Vision, and that lead to talking about baptism. She's been doing really good with praying lately, and she hasn't been questioning God's existence like she has in the past, so we asked her to pray about being baptized. Katrina closed her eyes and said this prayer, word for word- "Heavenly Father, I don't know if I should be baptized. Should I? In the name of Jesus Christ, amen."
This was surprising, because usually we have such a hard time with investigators praying specifically about that. They will say a really good prayer but leave out the asking-God-whether-they-
K sat for a moment, very quiet, and then said, "I feel like God is telling me I should be baptized. I wanna be baptized." We set a date for June 28. She is very excited.
K is probably the one I've seen make the most progress so far. She went from telling us that God is dead to praying only for bribes to wanting to pray just because to praying for baptism and receiving an immediate answer. Every week some sort of progress has been made. God is very mindful of every one of us, especially His little children who are more receptive to the Spirit than I think we realize. How grateful I am for the Spirit which touches people's hearts.
Life is good. God is great! I love being here.
Love,
Sister Rogerson
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