Best week ever!
So, for starters, we taught 25 lessons this week. Awesome. We had one really good lesson with an investigator for singles- Anthony. We had a guy named Chris from the singles branch teach with us who was a MAJOR help. He joined the church when he was about 18 and served a mission the next year in the Philippines. He's a crazy strong member and it's pretty amazing to hear him talk about how much the gospel's changed his life. Anyway, that lesson went really really well but that's not even why this week was awesome. The following paragraph will explain.
Cara (apparently her name isn't spelled with a "K" like I thought. Disappointing. That's how Supergirl spells it.) was at church last Sunday (and this Sunday) and loved it. The talks were PERFECT for her this week as well as the testimonies last week. Anyway, we got to her house for our lesson with her last Wednesday, and she said "Boy am I happy to see you guys!" and she had made us sandwiches. They were pleasant to the taste. She was much more excited than usual, which we were pretty sure was a good sign. Turns out, in the past two days, she had read over half of the Book of Mormon, and said she absolutely knew it was true. The first thing she said was "I'm ready to be grafted in!!" (referring to Jacob 4). She had some questions she had written as she was reading that she asked us and she was SO excited the whole time. She started getting a little emotional when she was telling us thanks for sticking with her for so long and she said after MUCH prayer, study, and research she finally understood that it was perfect. She was telling us about all of these experiences she'd had just in the past week that led her straight to the church and these discussions she'd had with people trying to "save" her from it that she completely came out on top in (one of them is now meeting with us this Thursday). It was so fun to hear her talk about that especially because one of her big issues before was that she was afraid she couldn't defend herself if people tried to talk to her like that. Long story short, she's ready to get baptized and we're setting the date this week. Yes! I'm crazy excited for her.
Other than that, things are splendid.
Thanks to everyone for all the mail and sorry to those that I've yet to respond to.
Happy early November!
Elder Al
