We went to the temple Saturday with Samantha to do baptisms! I always enjoy seeing recent converts that I taught strive to stay temple worthy. Paula from Franklin was also baptized on Saturday! Woot woot!
This week in one of my old areas their apartment caught on fire! Here is what happened. On Thursday afternoon as they were getting ready to leave, Elders Litchfield and M. Johnson discovered smoke coming out of the vents of their apartment. They went over to the office of the apartment manager to tell them, and when they returned to their apartment, the building was in flames. They never were able to get back into their apartment. They had their backpacks with them and they lost everything else. The burning roof, which was heavy with water from the firetruck’s spray, collapsed into their upstairs apartment. Everything inside was destroyed by either water, fire or smoke and soot.
As you can imagine, the hardest things to lose were their journals and scriptures. We all quietly prayed that somehow their journals and scriptures had been protected. On Saturday, Elders Litchfield and Johnson arrived at the fire site to check to see if anything else had been found and just as they arrived, workers found the rest of Elder Litchfield’s and Elder Johnson’s journals and scriptures. I know this was an answer to the prayers of a lot of people. These missionaries were recipients of a miracle. The Lord had preserved these precious records – though they were wet and soggy and covered in soot.
Saturday night we had dinner with the Andersons. They are sooooo sweet! Sister Andersons parents arent members and after dinner we had a great lesson with her mom! The family had invited her every week for the past 5 years to come to church but Saturday night the spirit was strong and we invited her to church and she said YES! She loved church and will be coming back! Funny thing is she has already read all of the standard works and knows they are true. We are praying we will begin to teach her and help her on her path to baptism.
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