this week we are going to have mike and audrey baptized on saturday and it will be pretty cool becuase i am going to be baptizing mike myself!!! haha but that will be pretty cool and i am grateful for the oppourtunity! but they are doing really well other than audrey is kind of having some health problems but that isn't going to stop them from entering the waters of baptism! but it will be pretty awesome for them to get baptized!
also we have been teaching some more kids this week. we picked up these 2 kids last week who happened to live in our area and their names are briana and joey and they are 12 and 10 years old and we committed them to be baptized on february 19th. but we just need them to come to church becuase their parents are less active and they really arne't pushing them to get baptized but the briana and joey really feel like they need to get baptized.
this sunday was stake conference at the ogden tabernacle and the O'Connor's showed up for stake conference and it was pretty awesome seeing them there. and they are just an awesome family, they even feed us dinner last week which was really cool! she made like the best turkey i have ever had (no offense mom) and she also made some ballin home made mac and cheese! but it was really cool to have dinner with them and then to have a lesson with them right after!
also we have been teaching this one kid named jordan and it has been kind of rough teaching him. he is kind of a really quiet kid and we have asked him to be baptized several times but he keeps on refusing to be baptized because he said that he wants to know more about the church before he gets baptized. so that has been kind of frustrating teaching him, but we have just been playing basketball with him at the church when we and him have time and that has kind of been opening him up. but last night Elder Deming and I decided just to read Alma chapter 32, where it talks about faith and we kind of explained the chapter to him as we read it. and the whole time i felt really prompted to ask him to be baptized and then Elder Deming asked him to be baptized and he said....NO....again. but this last transfer we have been working on asking good questions and resolving concerns with our investigators and that is something i honestly sturggle with, beucase i can teach the lesson just fine but i really have a hard time digging for those concerns, so then when he said no i asked him why he said no. and of course he said that he felt like he wanted to know more about the church. and then the conversation started going on and he started talking about how he has changed alot since he has moved in with this new foster family. and then i asked him how his life has changed and he said that he just felt like he was staying out of trouble since he had been going to church. and then he said that the reason why he didn't feel like he could get baptized is becuase he felt like he has to change more and that he feels kind of inadequate for baptism and that he doens't feel like he can be a changed person once he is baptized. and there was his concern!!!! it was awesome hearing that from him and so we talked to him a little about repentance. and we gave him a reading assingment of Enos to read. so hopefully we can get him baptized!
but anyways that is kind of what has happned this week. i'll keep you updated on more things to come. love you all and have a great week!
love
Elder Miller
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