My week has been pretty awesome. We have a progressing investigator named Nacho (well that's his nickname) that agreed to be baptized, so Elder Hanson and I are very excited. He's an awesome guy and acts like a member already. His wife and in-laws are inactive though, so we're having trouble getting him to come to Church. Also, I taught another part member family, the Bradshaws, and the non-member husband said that he has received signs that the Book of Mormon is true, so he is now praying about baptism! And on top of that, we have a 14 year old boy who has been investigating the Church for two years that the Bishop finally told him he can be baptized! So the work here in Redlands is going very well! It's very humbling, because I don't feel like I've done anything, and we look at our lessons and see how bad we taught the lesson, but the Spirit carried it. I guess that's what is supposed to happen though, so I'm happy!
Aside from the work, we did have 2 or 3 earthquakes, we were walking up to a house when we felt the second one, the garages started shaking like crazy. President Christensen has told everyone to make sure we have our 72 hour kits because he's recieved word that more earthquakes are going to be coming. Which should be scary to me since I have never been in any, but for some reason I feel very calm.
Also, yesterday we had an interesting guest at Church. My companion's sister got married on Saturday in the West Jordan temple and is having her honeymoon in Southern California, so my companion (mostly as a joke) asked Sister Christensen if it would be alright if she came to visit him on her way to Disneyland, and she said "Yeah, that'd be terrific, but only as long as she only goes to Church with you." Which obviously was no problem to him. She came to Sacrament Meeting, and it was a little strange, it didn't make him or me homesick at all, but it was very awkward for me, since I don't know anything about her. But it was cool, and I was happy for him.
Anyways, that's all the news I have, thanks for all the e-mails.
Posted by jeff at June 20, 2005 06:25 PM