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Riley #69 - Huntington Park, CA - Two Baptisms!
May 26, 2014
Hi,
Congratulations to Catherine! He sounds like a pretty awesome guy. And
good job to Jake - on the papers and the run. Where are you in your
schooling? What are your plans for that again? It is still weird to
think Mollie will be back soon.
It was a little slow for finding this week, but we have met some people
we can follow up with.
On the plus side, we had two of our investigators
baptized yesterday. One of them is the husband of a formerly Less
Active member.
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He was totally against even coming to church a couple
months ago, kind of having the whole "cult" mentality. His wife, then
fiancee, persuaded him to try it out and he really loved it. They are now married and then yesterday he was baptized. They are aiming for a temple
marriage in a year's time. They are very friendly and a great new
family.
The other one was a 16 year old boy. He first met missionaries a
year ago when they were teaching his older brother, Brian. He met with
them sporadically over the next few months with the last visit in March
of this year before we met him.
His brother, Brian, had met with
missionaries a lot so we went over to see him. When we got there, he
came out and to talk with us.
He had just started praying again a couple
days before and was surprised that we showed up after a couple months
right when he had started to pray again.
As we talked with him more, he
told us in March that he had committed the missionaries to be baptized
that May. The day we visited him was May 1st and he was just baptized
yesterday May 25.
He is awesome and it sounds like he wants to leave on a
mission next year. He is the only active-priest aged young man in the
ward. Fortunately, the Spanish and English wards combine for the youth,
so he isn't alone in class.
By the way, how is the Preach My Gospel study going? Let me know!
Love,
Elder Bowman
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