The week with 3 baptismal dates

March 20, 2017

Whoa! To start off, this is an amazing area!  Here is me on a hoverboard.  So sick!

Secondly, Elder Rogers is awesome! He is a spiritual giant, and I have already learned so many things from him!

I'll first start off talking about M. He has been taught by the missionaries for a long time, and Elder Rogers was telling me that his home is not very conducive to the Spirit. So we met him at the church to have a lesson there. We gave him a tour of the church and it went well. When we got to the chapel we asked him what he felt. He told us that he felt peace and comfort. We told him that he could have access to that peace and comfort all the time if he was baptized and received the Holy Ghost. We asked him what is holding him back from baptism, and he told us that he just hasn't had time to pray about it. We asked him if he'd be willing to pray about it right then, and he did! After his prayer he looked up and said "how do I go about being baptized?" WOW! It was so neat! We set his baptismal date for May 6th. We just need to help him understand and keep the commandments!

Then comes D. D. has been blind since birth. I don't think I know anyone personally who is blind. He has the bible in Braille, and he says it takes up a whole HUGE box. Now he wants the Book of Mormon in Braille. :) D. already knows a ton about the church, and he knows everything is true. He just had some really hard struggles in the past with the doctrine, but now he has gotten past that. He even talked with the Bishop about being baptized! Bishop told us that he thinks D. is ready, so we asked D. what day he'd like to be baptized, and he said May 6th! We are now teaching him the lessons again to prepare him for that date!

The next person is S. S. was taught by the missionaries for a few months down in Orange County. They just invited her to church and read the Book of Mormon with her. When she came up here to Victorville she wanted to keep meeting with the missionaries, so we were sent over. Holy cow S. is so prepared for the Gospel! Elder Rogers and his previous companion taught her just the Restoration, and this past week we taught her the Plan of Salvation. At the end we invited her to be baptized, and she picked the day of May 20th! So cool! She has three kids, and hopefully two of them will want to be baptized with her! That would be so neat to baptize a family!

While we were biking around in the Silverlakes community up in Helendale, we biked past a couple members who hadn't been to church in a long time. They recognized us as the missionaries and they thought to themselves "we want to go back to church......but we don't know where it is." So they got in their car and chased us down. :) Haha the Spirit works in Mysterious ways! They asked us if we could come by and reteach them the lessons so that they could remember it all again. So now we are going back again this week!

We also had a pretty crazy experience while biking. We were going down a hill really fast, and we took a left turn at the stoplight at about 25 MPH. Elder Rogers didn't turn sharp enough and ended up crashing into the curb on the other side. He literally FLEW off of his bike! Miraculously he wasn't hurt, and it turned out to be pretty funny to watch. :) He only got really dirty! :)

Love you all! Have a wonderful week! Always make sure to follow the promptings of the Spirit!


Love,
Elder Petrie