We set a baptismal date with L this week! She will be baptized the 9th of July. We taught her the plan of salvation this week and it all made so much sense to her. We were amazed by how much she knew as well as all the deep doctrine she pulled out of the lesson. It was incredible!
On Friday night we were able to participate in something amazing! Every fourth Friday all the recent converts in the mission can take their family names to the temple to be baptized for their ancestors!
We went with M. She was baptized for both of her grandmothers as well as her mother. It was so beautiful to see these new members participate in vicarious ordinances and too see them in white again. :)
On Sunday I got to see some of the members from one of my favorite wards :) It was a really tender few minutes. I got to talk to the ward mission leader and his wife and their three adorable children. I will never forget the example of sacrifice that they have taught me.
This weekend we had a mission president's fireside. A few recent converts shared their conversion stories. One woman spoke that I met up in the woodlands. I loved her story. She had always been Catholic but wasn't very active in the Catholic Church. She loved the bible and read it often. Her and her daughter went on vacation to Boston and she decided that she wouldn't take the bible because they usually have it in the dresser at the hotels. Well she booked a room at the Marriott and that night she reached in the drawer to read the bible and found the Book of Mormon! She started reading it and loved it. She decided to tell her husband and shortly after they contacted their member friends. Those friends ended up being the bishop in the woodlands Spanish ward. They were baptized five weeks later. :) I was thinking so much about that story last night because all around us people are being prepared. They are ready to receive the gospel and we have the ability to satisfy the need they have for it. She said that finding the church was like "coming home." It's so true! I love the feeling I get when I step in the church. It truly feels like I am exactly where I'm supposed to be.
President Mortensen spoke in his talk that night about the need that others feel to for the gospel. At times, they fill that need with things of the world. He said that the light of Christ is often polluted by artificial light. There are so many distractions and things of the world that we can buy and experience, but only the true gospel of Jesus Christ will fill that need that we have.
Con amor, Hermana Jorgensen
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