A New Year!

This week has been pretty good!

I am kinda getting to that mission age where people are asking me if I have seen any change in myself so far from my mission. It's hard to tell because I am with myself 24/7. If I did, I hope it is for the better.

We have made a ton of progress with our investigators. Our Muslim investigator believes in Christ, so he is now technically a Christian now. He is still looking for a new job so that he can come to church with us. His baptism for the 30th is still standing fast. We had the feeling that we should talk with him again about the Book of Mormon and about why it is so important. He ended up asking how the book will change the world. We ended up saying that maybe the book itself won't change the entire world, but it can change one's entire life and prepare people for when Christ comes again to change the world. He was fascinated with the fact that Christ would be coming back again. We talked a little bit about the millennium and about the missionary work that will be going on. We said that there will be an opportunity for everyone to accept the gospel and to accept Christ. He then looked at us with a smile, chuckled and said, "Ok. Then I will join you guys and do it with ya." It was so out of the blue, but it was great! We are both super stoked for Imad. 

We also met with Mona and Christin. They're getting baptized this Saturday!  We met with them and got through half of the Plan of Salvation with them. We came back two days later to finish it off but plans changed. They had some questions that they needed to find answers too and we helped them with that. One question was pretty intense.  Mona, the mother, told us that she had a dream about 10 days ago of Jesus standing on a high house with his arms stretched out. She said that she and Christin could not figure out what it meant. We were talking about it for about 10 minutes or so. At the end, Mona says that she thinks that the dream meant that she should trust in the Lord and go forward with her decision to be baptized and to have no fear. I am so jealous! I want to see Jesus in a dream too! I just think that it is so cool that the Lord prepares people in so many different ways, whether it is a dream or a chat about the Millennium. Who would have known? We invited Mona and Christin to come to church with us the next day and they said of course they'd come. They ended up not making it because Mona started to have really bad Asthma that morning.  It was a bummer because we wanted to teach them somethings so that they could be prepared for their baptismal interview on Tuesday and for their baptism on the 9th. We gave them a call and said that we might have to move the baptism back a week just so that we will for sure have time to cover everything that we need to. The two of them did not take that too well. They said that they can still get baptized on the 9th and that there has got to be a way that we could do it. We ended up making a battle plan right there over the phone in order to make January 9th possible.  I am super excited for the two! Elder Kitchen will be baptizing Mona and I will be baptizing Christin. It isn't every day that the companionship will be dressed in white. Please pray that everything will go well for these two and that Imad will be successful in finding a new job.

That was the main stuff for the week! I love you guys! Have a great week!

Elder Grow