so we were supposed to have 2 baptisms happen this week, and they didn't happen.....but they will be baptize soon, but anyways the one girl, who was supposed to be baptized this saturday didn't tell her parents that she was planning on being baptized and she is knid of afraid to tell her dad these things and Elder Ortiz and i waited for her to tell her parents, and she hadn't yet so we just went over there thinking that we were going to have a negative outcome with the parents, but when we went over there the visit went well and the parents who are non-members were qutie supportive of her decision to be baptized, except they were like the 27th is too soon and also the Dad had to work this past friday and saturday, and sunday so he said that he wouldn't be able to make it so we are planning on having her baptism this upcoming saturday or sunday, which will hopefully happen then. and then the other guy that was supposed to be baptized said that he couldn't do it becuase none of his family was going to show up, so he wanted to do it next week, except next week is labor day weekend and his girlfriend who is his fellowship said that she was going to be gone taht weekend camping so he decided to be baptized on the 10th...which kind of sucks. agency sucks sometimes. but if we take away agency, that sucks even more, becuase that is what satan wanted to do!
but this week we have another baptism going to come up also, the missionaries before me in this are have been teaching this guy named steve and he knows the church is true except he has a problem with smoking and so finally he came up with a baptismal date himself! and he wants to be baptized this next sunday at 7, so that will be awesome. also we have found another 9 year old kid who hasn't been baptized and when we first went over we just talked to his Dad and the Dad agreed with us to teach his son, but the kid wouldn't even come out of the house to say hi to us, so we set up an appointment and yesterday we taught him and he was like a totally changed kid, he was way excited to meet with us and the whole time he was like when can i get baptized?! so that was cool and also Elder Ortiz and I were concerned that this famliy wouldn't even come to church becuase the work on sundays and when both parents work on sunday the kids usually don't come to church, but the parents during the lesson were said that they sent off their kids to church this past sunday and that kids will just come to church on their own which is awesome! and also we have another little girl who is the same age who is also the same way!
so also we have started teaching another guy who is from the east coast, but has moved out here becuase of the air force. he has a girlfriend who is LDS and he is living with her, which was kind of a concern. but anyways we taught him a first discussion and it was going really well. usually when we teach a first discussion which is the restoration, this mission uses something called the spirit sandwich, and what the spirit sandwich is, is that we first talk about what the feelings of the holy ghost are and pretty much tell them if they feel the spirit in the lesson that means that it comes from god and throught the feelings of the spirit it is true. and then we ask the question, if you feel the spirit tonight will you devote yourself to god, and most all people say yes, so then we go into the lesson and before we discuss the first vision we talk over the spirit again and then tell them to look for the feelings of the holy ghost when we tell them about the first vision, and then after we tell the first vision we discuss the feelings of the spirit and then we commit for baptism.
Love
Elder Miller
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