Family,
I have been informed by my kind and loving older brother
that my emails are getting hard to read and that I need to start using
paragraphs more. Please excuse my shortcomings for I have only been out a
transfer. I am so glad to hear that everything has gone well with Torie and the
baby. Clara Gene is such a cute name. She looks just like Craig if I do say so
myself, a much cuter version of Craig that is!
It is so great that Mom and Dad were able to go and stay with Torie and Craig and experience their ward in Peoria. Church is definitely super different in the mission field
and mostly just outside of Utah. The recent converts bear such powerful but
simple testimonies that it is impossible not to learn from them. I definitely
believe that we need to focus on the simple powerful truths of the gospel to
really improve our lives.
This week has been pretty good. Thank you for your prayers
for Sarah. She decided on Tuesday to continue with her baptism! We were so
excited to see her overcome her fears and show such great faith. I want to tell
you more about my experience with Sarah and how I have seen that Mighty Change
of heart that is spoken of so many times in the Book of Mormon.
My First contact with Sarah was my first night in the
mission. I was tired and scared and extremely overwhelmed. We called Sarah to
set up an appointment and proceeded to have an hour long conversation about how
she did not want to continue the lessons, she had a really rough week. Sarah
struggles with depression and was having a really hard time feeling of Gods
love. For the next 3 weeks we would occasionally send a spiritual thought to
her in a text. One Sunday we walked into church and to our surprise we saw
Sarah sitting off to the side. We were overjoyed to see her at church. We
talked to her and set up a lesson for later on that week. We taught Sarah and
everything was going great. She came to church and she was really feeling the
spirit. We scheduled a baptismal date and then suddenly out of nowhere last
Sunday night she dropped us. We were devastated, we had seen her come so far
only to have it go no further. We kept in contact with her and tried so hard to
figure out her fears of being baptized. Once we had found those fears and
helped her know of Gods love and the strength that she can get from the
atonement, she was again ready to be baptized. Just this last Friday Sarah was
baptized and has now received the gift of the Holy Ghost. She is honestly a
completely different person. In her own words she said, "I used to walk
around with a fake smile on, but now I don't. Now the smile is real." The
gospel gives Sarah and all of us such a beautiful hope and joy for life and
for what is to come. It can truly heal any wound! Because of back problems it required two of us in the font
to make sure that she was safe. It was an experience I am not soon to forget.
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| Sarah's Baptism The font was a little small for all 3 of us but we made it work! |
The work is going forward! And there truly are people
prepared for this great message! Not much else happened this week. It is the start of a new
transfer and we have to get working on getting some new investigators because
the two we had last transfer are now recent converts.
Love you guys so much and am so excited to get to watch
conference this weekend! Also I hope you wore your fast Sunday ties, cause I
surely did.
Love,
Elder Kmetzsch
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