David got baptized!! Finally! He was so happy you could see it in his face 
after preparing the whole week for Saturday, we got to celebrate the Fourth in the best way by having a baptism. It was actually a little awkward and unexpected when the baptism had to be redone a total of four times (yes, four), but as our Canadian friend Joni mentioned, four was apparently a good number because it was the Fourth of July. David seemed to like that idea. Oh, and what I just realized, David was my fourth baptism on my mission, :) so four is a good number! And what's more, as mentioned in my title for the week, we finally met with "J" again...and...he agreed to be baptized!!! On August 1!!! My last Saturday. :) As the lesson progressed we all kind of came to the conclusion that he believes almost everything we believe but just calls it a different name, if that. And this point, I said, "well, it looks like all you have to do now is just... Do it." And he agreed. He asked how a baptism worked and we explained a bit to him, and then he pulled out his phone and said, "where will the baptism be?" "In Leipzig." "Oh! I was born in Leipzig. What time will it be?" "Uh... We haven't thought that far... Probably 5." "Good...and what will I wear?" And typed everything into his calendar and saved it. Like. Who does that?! He is so ready! And so willing! He knows that if he's ever going to find out who God is then he needs to take steps into the dark and find out what's there, because no one ever learned anything of value standing in the same spot. I am so excited for him. These next four weeks are going to be killer.
after preparing the whole week for Saturday, we got to celebrate the Fourth in the best way by having a baptism. It was actually a little awkward and unexpected when the baptism had to be redone a total of four times (yes, four), but as our Canadian friend Joni mentioned, four was apparently a good number because it was the Fourth of July. David seemed to like that idea. Oh, and what I just realized, David was my fourth baptism on my mission, :) so four is a good number! And what's more, as mentioned in my title for the week, we finally met with "J" again...and...he agreed to be baptized!!! On August 1!!! My last Saturday. :) As the lesson progressed we all kind of came to the conclusion that he believes almost everything we believe but just calls it a different name, if that. And this point, I said, "well, it looks like all you have to do now is just... Do it." And he agreed. He asked how a baptism worked and we explained a bit to him, and then he pulled out his phone and said, "where will the baptism be?" "In Leipzig." "Oh! I was born in Leipzig. What time will it be?" "Uh... We haven't thought that far... Probably 5." "Good...and what will I wear?" And typed everything into his calendar and saved it. Like. Who does that?! He is so ready! And so willing! He knows that if he's ever going to find out who God is then he needs to take steps into the dark and find out what's there, because no one ever learned anything of value standing in the same spot. I am so excited for him. These next four weeks are going to be killer.
We were SO busy this week. So so busy. We had barely enough time to do all the things we needed to do. A lot of last minutes were used. We spent the whole week going from appointment to appointment and using any spare time to prep this baptism (I gave a talk and Schwester Mitte and I sang two songs together—they went great!). We were able to talk out some problems with a new convert/less active and even serve two of our other less actives (by going grocery shopping for both of them. Convenient. We are pros at going grocery shopping apparently.) And we received a total of THREE referrals this week. Talk about success people. Even though I'm going home in four weeks, I have hardly any time to think about that because the work is just up and running.
Things are going really well. I am doing great. Except the 100+ degree weather is trying to kill me.
My companion told me something really interesting today. She said that, in the wait for the second coming, we see that the world is bad enough and needs not get any worse, yet the second coming hasn't happened yet because the members of the church aren't quite good enough. We must continue holding on to the iron rod because holding on and moving forward is all we have left. God will support us always in our quest for righteousness.
The church has always been true.
4 weeks.
Sister Seamons
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