This week has been CRAZY AMAZING! We had a baptism!!!!! AAAAaaahhh!!!!! MY First Ever!!! It was so amazing! Daniel, 11, got baptized this past Saturday at 5:00pm, and was confirmed yesterday! The spirit was so strong at his baptism, I couldn't help but have a huge grin of my face the ENTIRE time!! So much love and peace, oh man, it was unreal!!!!His step dad Eduardo, who got baptized only a month ago, was able to baptize him! He said it in Spanish, ha. It was so touching, because after his baptism when Bishop was talking, he had Daniel go up and was talking about how he is a part of the Cape Coral family now, and there was so much love in the room (the room was PACKED! I've never seen a more filled baptism on the mission, they had to add chairs and people were standing by the door!) and Daniel had tears in his eyes, oh, his life is going to be so much better now!!! And in his confirmation blessing, he was told he would have the desire to serve a full time mission!!!! Yay!!!! Future missionaries in the making!!!!!
Our investigator Sasha doesn't have a date anymore, but she came to the baptism with her daughter and stayed afterwards for the Returning Missionaries dinner thing for two recent RM's. It was so fun! Saturday was awesome, even though we had a few hiccups with getting the program together and last minute changes to who was giving what talk, ha. (we also left the building to make the programs at a members house, which took longer than we thought it would, and we so worried the chapel would be flooded! We left the font on filling.. But it didn't! Tender Mercies of the Lord!!!
We also found a new investigator yesterday while knocking (after a torrential downpour, ha, it was great! Another tender mercy: right as I got my bike locked up and opened my umbrella, it REALLY started to pour! God truly does watch out for us! Love Him!!!) She has tons of questions, and we are so excited to go back and teach Michelle more!
There were other things I wanted to add, but I don't remember them, and I am out of time, but I love you all so very much! Stay safe and keep holding on to the Iron Rod, we will make it as we stick to the path and press on faithfully! Have a great week!
Love,
Hermana Stokes
Pictures:
Baptism! One with Daniel is with a blueberry bagle. Backstory: we taught repentance with an analogy saying that is Sister Colton stole my bagel and felt really bad about it, what would she need to do? Then we gave him a bagel on Sunday for doing his reading :) It was great!
Last Zone Conference with President and Sister Richardson! :'(
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