Baptism + Police

Thanks for all the emails! I'm happy to hear that life is still going on back home, and it sounds like this week was a pretty good week!

Shout out to Hailey for the prom invite, and to Jace for the baptism, and to Jaxon for the bloody nose... Love you! And everyone else of course. :)

There was some sort of crime her in Richmond the other day. (Obviously). But we went to go visit a member in our ward, but we couldn't because it was all blocked up with like a million cop cars. We pulled over down the street a ways and then we noticed that there was a helicopter and search dogs and stuff. it was crazy. We eventually visited the member a couple days later, and he didn't even know it happened. He was sitting peacefully at home during the whole thing, and knew nothing about it. I love that concept of finding peace in times of war. This example was more of a literal example, but as I thought about that situation a little more symbolically, I realized how much of a blessing it is when we are able to be happy and peaceful and clean even though the world is so full of chaos and temptations and evil. And yet, here we are! (hopefully) trying our best to make the right choices! I know that as we strive to make the best choices, we too can find peace. ya saben. pero me gusto todavia.

This week, I got to lead another baptimal interview. This time for a 10 year old named Jose Figueroa. He was very well prepared, and he passed the interview with a gold star. He even sang me a couple songs! haha Good kid. He got baptized yesterday at the temple, and I'd been ask to help do a musical number with Elder Ah Hoy! We a Capella sang "Las Familias Pueden Ser Eternas" (Families can be Together Forever) So that was fun. It was an excellent turn out too. We got our newest investigator (Mariela) to go to it too! :) AND SHE LOVED IT!

This investigator, Mariela, is golden. She was a referral that we got from a family in our ward on that day that Elder Muniz and I spoke in sacrament about missionary work. It's the member's Nephew's wife.

STORY TIME:

We needed to find a member to come to a visit with us, or we'd have to cancel it. She was going to be home alone, and we can't visit single women if we're alone. Mission rule. So we needed to find a member, and fast. We called a couple people, but they were all busy or didn't pick up the phone. So we decided to stop by the house of the family that gave us the referral! Just to see if they could help us last minute.. Turns out, they really needed us there! One of their sons is about to get deported to Mexico for a DUI, and the mom was losing sleep and stressing a ton. understandably. We were able to give her a blessing of comfort, and bring a smile to her face, and it was beautiful! :) She ended up coming with us to our lesson too, and with her help, we had the most powerful lesson EVER with her. Long story short, Mariela is set to be baptized on April 11! :) Such an awesome story, but I'm not sure if I'm explaining how much of a blessing it was. God definitely helped us is every step.

For example: If we had spoken about a different topic at sacrament meeting, we wouldn't have gotten that referral.

If we had rescheduled the appointment, we wouldn't have had that member there.

Who knows, she might have denied the baptism date and never have gotten baptized if things had gone differently, and we are excited to work with her. :) God's hand is in all things.

Love you all!

Elder Webster