28 Feb 2011

Hello,

Well we have had another great weekend. We had three baptisms. Robert and Natalie got baptized, and Kelton was able to get baptized as well. It was another great baptism.

We weren't sure if Kelton was going to be able to get baptized, cause we didn't know if his wife would give him permission, so we decided to have a special fast for it to happen. Sometimes I feel like fasting is a secret weapon we have. It is such a great tool to recieve answers to prayers. And I know we are not supposed to boast about our fasting, so I am not trying to brag but this is evidence that fasting works.

So up until we fasted Keltons wife had refused to even look at any of the literature and/or dvds that we had given him, but on the day we decided to fast she started asking about the church and they ended up watching three dvds together, and they were Together Forever, Our Heavenly Fathers plan, and The Restoration! And then Kelton called us and told us what had happened and then he told us that she would be willing to sit down and listen to us. It was a miracle! She completely changed her mindset. And so we sat down and talked and she asked us a few questions and then she said if he wanted to get baptized that was fine. It was amazing. I was just like overjoyed and full of gratitude that it could happen so quickly like that and I almost felt like the miracle exceeded the amount of faith that I had had to produce it. But nonetheless it happened. :)

And Kelton is very solid. He is loving church more and more each time and I am confident he will stay active and that soon his wife will recognize that it is true to the point where she will really have to decide to join or not. And I just hope she joins. I think she will. But it was a miracle, and Kelton is doing great and met with Bishop yesterday to get the priesthood and something else that is cool is since Elder Haley had helped teach him Elder Haley was able to get permission to come back and perform the baptism.

I was so happy to see elder Haley again. It was wonderful. We got to talk and he is doing good, and enjoys his new area althoguh he really missed Hampton at first, he told me. but I was just so happy to see him again we were having a correlation meeting with the sister missionaries and Elder Haley walked in and luckily we were about done correlating, when we correlate we just talk about all our investigators and how we can help each other help the investigators, but as soon as elder Haley got there I just could not focus on correlating anymore at all, so luckily we were about done cause I was excited to talk to him.

And then Elder Haley got to baptize kelton and Kelton asked me to confirm him. It was the first time I had done a blessing like that in sacrament meeting and I was a little nervous but it went great. Kelton said he loved it so that made me happy.

Robert and Natalie also are soaring, i feel like, and got confirmed yesterday. The Elders Quorum president put robert on his own home teaching list and the relief society president already has visiting teachers for Natalie so the ward is doing their job well. They were very happy at their baptism and Natalie was crying. I am just very grateful to be able to be apart of the success we are having. I feel like there are missionaries that are just as capable as me and work hard but go through times where it is hard to have baptisms, so I am just grateful that we have been able to get people baptized and that we have a ward who supports us alot. This ward has had 14 baptisms this year already! So things are going good in Hampton.

Something cool is there is a young man in the ward who has been waiting for his mission call. We have become good friends with him and he comes out with us at least twice a week, and he hangs out with us on Pdays. And last week I found out he likes chess so we are going to play some chess today. Anyway his name is K*yle T*urner and we found out this week that he is going to Colorado Springs for his mission. So we were all pretty excited to hear his mission call. He is very excited too. Well we are doing good, we are being blessed, thank you for your prayers as I am sure they have helped out too. I love you.

Love
Elder Larson