Dear Family,
What a wonderful week we have had here. We had Carrie's baptism on
Saturday and the confirmation that following day. We had a good
turnout at the baptism. Around 50 people were there... including 2
investigators from some of the other missionaries serving around us.
One of the investigators that came was able to set her own baptismal
date afterwards which was super sweet! The spirit that was their was
great and i know that everyone who attended was able to feel it. It
took three times in the baptismal font until she was completely
submerged. On Sunday Elder Taylor confirmed her and then we had the
primary program that day. That was great. We had 2 more investigators
we found from Congo that came to church that day and we sat with them
and explained what was going on around them. Their names are Prince and
Simeon. It was pretty funny actually because they called us Sunday
morning and said that they needed a ride to church. Prince was a
referral we got from the MTC and then he brought his friend along with
him to church and we are both going back over on Saturday to teach
them. They speak a little English, more than saliboko and his family,
but mostly french and swahili again. So we are bringing the one ward
member we have to come with us and translate into french if needed.
Saliboko and his wife Tunza and her sister Mawazo all accepted to be
baptized on the 24th of November. They were all at church again this
last week as well. We got a text message from our relief society pres
that Tunza went into the hospital because she was having really bad back
pain from her pregnancy and they decided to go ahead with the c-section
today so we are going over later to check up on her and make sure
everything went ok. We have scheduled to teach the Plan of Salvation on
Thursday so i don't know if that is going to happen, but it would be a
super sweet lesson to teach to someone who just had a baby 3 days
before.
While we were walking around we found this house that had turned
their tree into a giant pumpkin (see picture). A lot of houses really
go all out for halloween decorations. For us on halloween our cars are
parked at 6 o'clock, but we can still have appointments if the families
we are going to teach come and pick us up. So we will still be teaching
two families that night. Some of the ward members gave us some candy
on Sunday and i'm sure we will be getting a lot more later as well. The
weather has been getting colder here and i've had to start wearing some
sweaters and even the beanie at night. We are preparing for our
mission tour that will be next month. Elder Clark from the 70 is coming
out. He hasn't given us any assigned reading or anything so we don't
know what he is going to be talking about. Well i know that this church
is true! I love you all so much
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