This week was crazy! A ton of ups and downs. It was an emotional roller coaster this week haha. There is so much stuff that it is just too complicated to talk about or try to explain. I actually think that I could write a novel on this week alone on my mission. I was able to figure out the will of Heavenly Father and go forward with it even though I had a different idea that satisfied my selfish demands. So I am going to explain briefly the things that happened this week.
We will start of with Joy. She is a single mother that has had a lot of trials in her life. I was able to talk about her in my last post. Well, we had some amazing spiritual lessons that bore witness to her that she needs to get baptized. She knows that is what she needs to do and she just needs to do it. Well, we were able to schedule a date for August 31. She was so excited and ready. We were teaching her every other day. We talked about baptism again and asked her if there is anything that could be getting in the way of her getting baptized. She expressed her situation with her daughters not approving her faith and what she believes. She wants them to be a part of her baptism and celebrate it with her. They are so against it. She explained that she has the mommy extincts. How her kids are always first. That she will not do anything for herself until her kids needs are taken care of. She believes that she is being selfish being baptized before her kids. We understand that she feels that way. We talked about how Jesus Christ was baptized to be an example unto us and to show us the way. We promised her that she will be that example to her family. That her kids will have more of an opportunity to accept the Gospel with her being a baptized member with the gift of the Holy Ghost rather then her not being baptized. The spirit testified what we said was true. She said that she is still planning on it. So excited we call the Bishop and let him know and get people ready to support her on this great day. Flying high as a kite the next day we are in a lesson and I get a text from Joy. She told us not to panic but she prayed and feels like the 31st of August is not the right time for her to be baptized. That she wants her kids to be more accepting and be at the baptism and support her. I went from seeing rainbows and flowers to getting knocked out by Brian Urlacher (linebacker for Chicago Bears). I was so frustrated. We did everything we could! Feeling like a failure we go home to finish weekly planning. I check in with my Heavenly Father to let him know the event that transpired. I was able to bring my will to his and felt an assurance that her time is not yet. That we need to be patient to her needs and just have charity for her. So I was able to be comforted that it was the will of the Lord and that she will get baptized at a later date. I don't know if it will be while I am here or not but no matter what she will enter into the waters of baptism. That is all that matters!
We were able to get another investigator to progress tremendously this week. We were able to get Natalie to keep the Word of Wisdom which she has been already been doing for two weeks. She was able to go to her friends baptism that she knew since kindergarten. She came to church for the first time staying all three hours! She loved Young Womens. She loves everything about the church and feels very confident that she is going to be entering in the water of baptism in the near future!
Busy as ever! There is no other way I would like it!
Elder Brown
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