9-16-13

Dear Family and Friends,

So Harry was baptized!!!!!!!!!!!! We were sooo happy for him and so blessed to be apart of this young mans life. I was blessed to have him ask me to baptize him also. We really wanted one of the ward members to do it, but he personally asked me, so I couldn't say no. The baptism was beautiful! There were a lot of members there to support him, and he was just beaming the entire time! Even the morning at church he had this spirit about him that every single person there could feel. It was so neat to be able to talk to him about how he felt as we were changing back into our Sunday dress. He came into the room and was very quite. He looked up at me a little bit into it, and told me that he couldn't really explain how he was feeling, but that he felt fantastic!! He had this Heavenly Glow about him that was just so special for us to witness. He bore his testimony after the baptism, and he brought tears to the eyes of many as he explained how much he had changed, and how he was so blessed to be able to have met us missionaries and how he doesn't know what he would do if he had never started reading the Book of Mormon. it was very very powerful, and it was a blessing to every ones life that heard him! 

 We had two non members that came to his baptism with friends, and we were able to add both of them as new investigators, and one of them name Alison told us that she had never felt something that strong before, and she wants to be baptized too!!! How amazing is that?! The other one told us that he had felt something also, and that he wanted to learn more about what he was feeling and about the things that were taught through out the service! It was so special. We were super blessed this week to be able to find 6 new investigators through out this week! We were looking through our names and investigators that have been being taught for a while, we realized just how much potential we have to accomplish our October goals! We have quite a few people who have already said that when they come to know that it's true that they would be baptized, so now we just need to get them to accept dates, and allow Heavenly Father to answer their Prayers. We are very excited for them!

We are a tad worried about Deniella.. She told us that she is struggling with the thought of having modern day prophets, and is a little worried about her baptism.. We have a lot of faith in her, and she has a lot of friends who are really working on keeping her excited and ready. Please keep her in your prayers.

Another prayer we could use is for Peter Pu.. We have yet to be in contact with him for the past week or so... He isn't answering our calls or texts, and didn't come to  church or Harry's baptism either. He turned 21 this past week, and we heard a rumor from a friend that he may have had a little issue there, and so we think he may just be embarrassed! We are really trying to support him through this tough time, but don't know how to do that if he is not contacting us back.. Please just keep praying for us, and him and pray that we will be able to call us back or open his door to us. We have really been worried. 

Thank you all so much for your excitement and for your love for our work out here. We have been so blessed to be able to enjoy a lot of hard work and success. It has been so much fun to be able to share all of our stories and our success with you! We have got to get going this week, but know that I love and pray for you all! You are so special to me, and I know that we will be together forever! I have had a few really good opportunities to testify of Christ and Joseph Smith. That is my all time favorite part of missionary work and it just makes my testimony grow so much! Thank you all so much and know that I love you and have a solid testimony of this gospel! Thanks for all you do and know that I love you! 

Love,

Elder Shelley

pictures: Harry's baptism