A Week In The Life

Hello all!  How are you doing this week?  Elder Decker and I have been having a great week!  The work here in the Riverbend Stake has been moving forward strong and we are excited for harvest that has begun.  We have been able to meet with some of our great investigators.  We are super excited for Hannah, who has accepted an invitation to be baptized this month.  We are still working with her and hoping to prepare her and make sure she is ready for baptism at that time.  One thing that got sorted out this week is her baptismal interview.  Since she is new in Canada her English still needs some work, and our zone leaders were worried about being able to effectively communicate and make sure she was ready.  Fortunately for us, last transfer one of the Mandarin was called as our Assistant to the President.  So now he will conduct the baptismal interview for her.  We are super excited for that.

This week we also met with Holly, who opened up to us and we had a great conversation with her and her fellowshipper.  Her fellowshipper is awesome, not just as a friend, but he also does blacksmithing.  So I think he's pretty sweet.

Finally this week we have a new investigator!  Her name is Casiel, and she is a young woman staying in the home of a family in one of the wards here.  We visited with them before, but at that time Casiel wasn't really ready to start learning about the Church yet.  This week, she was ready.  We are super excited to start meeting with her.  I am so glad for the members that she lives with as well.  They are super awesome and great friends and support for her and are loving her so much.

One of the awesome things that happened that we didn't get to be a part of was one of our investigators who helped with a dinner put on for seniors in the area.  The dinner was Broadway themed, and she is a great violin player, and she played I Dreamed A Dream accompanied by a member of the YSA Ward.  Although we weren't there, we heard it was super good and she played super well.  Hopefully we are going to be able to have her play a special musical number in Sacrament Meeting in the next couple weeks.

I hope you have had a good week.  I know I have, and I know I have seen the hand of the Lord in my life.  Love you all!  Have a great week!

Elder Ethington

Elders Decker, Bergeson, Ethington and Rich