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Hello Family & Friends!
Hope all is going well for you and your 3rd, 4th & 5th of July Holidays were great - because they sure looked like it! I think Heavenly Father just doesn't want me in an area where they are having fireworks or parades - both Lake Elsinore & Here did not celebrate it all all! And to make things more sad - yesterday for July 11th I didn't get to celebrate 7Eleven day! I guess more blessings though for not going and getting a free slurpee... wait.. I'm not really buying anything... haha jk NO EXCUSES HERE! be obedient to the max and get the max of blessings!... oew, feel free to quote me on that!
This week has been a duzy - but a good one - me and Elder Jensen have been working so hard - I don't think I have ran to so many appointments right after the other in so little time. CRAZY! But with crazy schedules and when we sacrifice for the Lord - He blesses us imediately! On Tuesday night we went to a part member family in the La Quinta ward named the Holmstrom family. haha, I don't know if I have told you about them but.. lets just say not them best of family relations... Well on Tuesday we went to their house with our ward mission leader Brother Caress and we had set in our minds we were going to commit them for baptism (only the mom is a member and so the dad and the 4 girls are not) Well the lesson went great and we set the Dad, and the daughters Elizabeth, Maddison and Sunny up for a baptismal date on the 25th of July - I know soon huh - but what better way could they develop good family relations then to follow their Savior Jesus Christ into the waters of baptism- not many. They had never been to church before but this week they came! and they were smiling all the way through it too! I am so excited for them!
Also our investigator Venus Paez we met with this week and had an amazing talk with her. Wow, I can't tell you how strong the spirit was on that back porch! We talked about all of her questions that she has had while investigating since October. Finally we asked her if she loved Christ and Heavenly Father. She said yes. We asked her if she wanted to always follow the commandments God has given her. She answered Yes again. Then with the spirit we committed her to baptism on August 1, 2010! She was scared, but we paused for a moment and didn't talk. A minute later she looked up and said "I'll do it!" Oh my gosh - I was stoked!!! She and her kids came to church for the first time yesterday and loved it - everyone was talking to her and answering her questions. These are the good times that I dreamed about the past few months!!! FINALLY!!
Well life is so good for me! Keep praying for me and my investigators - Prayers really do help so much! I think we gained like 7 new investigators this week and I can testify to you that it was Gods help through prayer - Not mine!
Love you all so much - sorry so short... not quantity, but quality right... haha
PS. Hope You have fun Yokshas family in Cache Valley!!!-- Love, ELDER PATRICK McBRIDE