Brother Wang is going to get BAPTIZED!

Hey everyone!

Food: Banana Flower Ice with Chocolate and Granola: So wonderful and refreshing on a hot summer day. The flavors are so wonderful together and it was almost like ice cream, but just, a little, different. I give it 5 indulgent ices out of 5.

 

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It's the three degrees of glory!-- regarding my multiple tanlines on my wrist, resultive of the braces that I wear for it.

 

They may think it's a pain talking to a foreigner...or Sister Li--Elder Johnson in District Meeting on contacting

 

ELDER!!!!!!!!!!--me playing a horrible improvised song on the guitar for my companion in the morning.

 

We're the emeritus club--Me on Elder Visser, Elder Bogle and I being on exchange together. We were all Zone Leaders together.

 

You like oyster noodle soup? "Like" (facebook lingo)--Sister Yan, one of Elder Visser's Recent Converts to me.

 

Me: Brother Li, I have good news for you! Brother Wang is going to get baptized this week on Saturday!

Brothe Li: Oh................Elder Siebert, I have some good news for you too....I'm getting married that day!

Me: (in my mind) You're getting married? You had a girlfriend? Fiance? Wha....?The wool has been pulled over my eyes!--Me calling our ward mission leader about the baptism

 

Well this week brought the good news that my dear investigator, Brother Wang is going to get baptized next week! He is going to be baptized a mere four weeks after we found him--the fastest that anyone can be baptized! It's very, very exciting! Everyone loves him and he loves the church so much. He told us how he was looking for more than he could find in the bible and in other churches and then we met him. He told us how much he loves the scriptures about "baptism of repentance" because he was baptized as a baby and always felt like there should be a real baptism. It's so cool. From day one he was totally on board to get baptized and he was so excited that he could get baptized earlier than his date. He has just been a smooth sailing because we started sharing with him and he had no problems. Even when we blitzed the commandments with him he didn't have any problem. He would just say, "So what's this commandment?" We'd explain and he'd say, "Oh okay, I got it, I just wanted to know if there was anything special about this commandment. Yeah, I knew that one already. Yup, yup, of course I will keep it." It has just been so amazing. It's so nice that the Lord has answered my prayers for baptism. I know that He will give us what we need when we need it. It's something that I found studying a long time ago and I have just been trying to wait on the Lord for when I could see baptisms. I am glad that the time has come at last. I know that the work is the Lord's work, he directs it and will bless all those who are involved with it. I bear this testimony to you all and thank you for all your love and prayers.

Love,
Elder Siebert