WOOOOOOOOOOOOO, this week was
well beyond belief. This entire week was dedicated to preparing X for his
upcoming baptism on Saturday. Things went without a hitch! I'm so grateful to be
a missionary at this time in my life, not only to help others come to the truth
of the restored gospel, but for my own personal conversion to the gospel as well.
Through the experience we witnessed with X, my testimony in sincere prayer
and fasting were solidified. I witnessed people with faith, people with sincere
desire, calling upon our God, to receive a testimony of His truth. Frankly, I'm speechless to the matter, and my mind has been left to reflect these past few
days about it all. We will continue to teach Y and the gang, they are
coming along. They also have desire to know if all these things are true. They've
just haven't quite acted upon that desire yet. The formula is simple. Read.
Attend Church. Pray and Ask, and these things will be made manifest unto those
who do so with real intent and that have even just the smallest seedling of
faith.
I have a lot of photos, but I don't have a method of sending them today. I'll try to work on that some more. The baptism was excellent. The bishop, the first counselor, the Elder's Quorum president, a recent convert, some other recent converts, and an investigator all attended! Elder L came and preformed the ordinance and also Elder E, his new comp. So it was awesome to see my MTC bud again!
I have a lot of photos, but I don't have a method of sending them today. I'll try to work on that some more. The baptism was excellent. The bishop, the first counselor, the Elder's Quorum president, a recent convert, some other recent converts, and an investigator all attended! Elder L came and preformed the ordinance and also Elder E, his new comp. So it was awesome to see my MTC bud again!
Things are going swell here,
the work continues, the members here are stoked to work alongside with us, and
we´ll just keep on working here! Don't worry about me one bit!
I love you all so much and hope
you all have an awesome Thanksgiving!!!!
Elder Siebers
PS. I'm so excited for the package. Our zone leaders were in the mission
office and they called me saying, "Elder Siebers, your package is too big for us. We
can bring it to you if your are in NEED but we would have to sacrifice the
packages of the other elders of the zone because its sooo big!" This Saturday is
one more opportunity to receive a package so all should work out this time!
[Here's a shout out to some great people who used to live here in Canton, and recently moved to Idaho. I am not even sure if they knew Cooper very well as he was at college most of the time they lived here. They had an opportunity to go to Rio last month and asked if they could hand deliver some items to the Mission home there. Considering that a large flat rate box through the only "authorized and recommended" postal system costs $80, has a 20 pound limit and takes 4-6 weeks to get there, if it gets there at all- I jumped on the offer. My poor friend in Idaho. The most efficient way to get it to her was to order a bunch of stuff on Amazon - Prime of course! I have no idea how much I even sent, probably a large suitcase worth. They were able to hand it off to the missionaries who live in the Mission home two weeks ago. It was simply the nicest gesture to offer to this missionary mom. This family has a couple of boys who will likely serve missions of their own one day and I truly believe that someone will pay this forward for this family. Thank you Ps!]
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