dear pencil users,
i'm going to preface this letter by apologizing for the last of space in-between the opening stanza (if you can call it that) and the final post script. for various and mostly non explosive reasons we're a little bit short on time today so i just want to share two great miracles from this week.
uno!
we started teaching a girl named natalia this week. she investigated the church about two years ago after she was invited to be taught by her member friend. even though natalia never really had any religious background she was really interested in the church. after being taught for a while she accepted the commitment for baptism but in the end she wasn't able to because her mom wouldn't let her. fast forward two years. natalia has been attending church and young women consistently for the last two years and has also been attending girls camps and family home evenings at members’ homes. recently she persuaded her mom to let her join and this is where we come into the picture. so here is natalia a fifteen year old girl absolutely full of faith and testimony now finally able to join the church that she loves and we get to be here to see her finally make this last step into the baptismal covenant! needless to say we're very very excited and grateful that we get to be a part this whole process.
Two!
yesterday we decided to stop by the home of a part member family that we didn't really know that well. a woman named kelly white. much to my surprise we quickly learned that she was from Utah. so we basically had an instant connection. then much to my greater surprise i found out that she is actually the niece of a certain sister nelson who lives in bountiful in the area around muir elementary. (sound at all familiar?) we talked with her for a little while as well as her super super nice nonmember husband named peter. before we left kelly asked us if we could give her a blessing because she was going through a difficult time with her schooling. she explained to her husband a little bit about what a blessing is and why she would like one and then we proceeded to administer her one. during the blessing the spirit came into the room really strongly and after the blessing was finished i looked around to peter to see how he was reacting to the spirit in the room. he was standing in the corner with a happy yet mildly puzzled expression on his face. after sitting there for a moment he asked us if it were at all possible for him to receive a blessing as well. we we're more than happy to oblige. once again the spirit came upon us all very strongly and afterwards when he was thanking us he mention just he just felt really really good and he didn't really know why. we explained it to him :) so he's not investigating yet but he did promise us that he will attend church with us very soon. :)
so that’s all i have time for today (apologies again) but we've had a great week and we're planning on having an even greater one next week. this happens quite frequently while in the mission field.
with love
Elder Jarman
ps. i just realized a few days ago that the worlds going to end in like a month! weird huh.
pps. will someone please check to see if sister Nelson has a niece named kelly. please and thank you!
ppps. it would be really hard to type if you only had two fingers. . . i mean think about it
pppps have i mentioned i love it here lately?
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