This last weekend was a little stressful!! We have been teaching Yasmine and her mom Asan Banu who used to be muslim. They really want to get baptized but the mission president has to be the one to interview them for baptism. In this mission tho, the president is a plane flight away... Luckily, Mission President was coming to Chennai for zone conference this week. So, I was nervous for them to be interviewed by president. We got to the church with them but we were locked out!! It was stressful when President showed up and we were locked out but we got it worked out. They were interviewed and they passed!!(whatever that entails) So, they are getting baptized on Saturday together and they couldn't be more excited. The next day, we had zone conference and I learned a lot! The things I learned the most this time was how to use time wisely, and become a master teacher. I am going to work on these things the next few weeks and always continue to improve!!
When I first got to this area, I met a family in my branch named the Haribert family! The father was baptized 17 years ago and then went inactive unfortunately. Since then, he has been married and had a child. Now, fast forward to now. I called and visited his family 4 months ago and they said they would come to church. They came every few weeks because the mother and daughter went to a different church. But, we taught them and kept visiting to where they really felt the spirit. The mom bore her testimony to us about how she feels at our church verses her other church and she doesn't want to give up that feeling any week. No matter what problems or struggles she is having, she feels so loved at church with us on Sunday. The daughter is 12 and named Emibeula and she is awesome!! She literally takes notes every lesson. She reads the Book of Mormon every time I ask her to and when I come back the next time to her home, she asks me to explain it to help her out. Brother Haribert now has the awesome opportunity to baptize his wife and daughter on Saturday. The Haribert family is making their way onto the covenant path that leads to living eternally together as a family. What a blessing it is to feel the Savior's love in our life every week as we go to church and partake of the sacrament. I am so grateful for our Savior, Jesus Christ and I know He lives!!
Funny story this week: We were asking Elder Rajendran questions about things and what color so he could respond in English. We pointed to our planner and said, "hey what color is this?"
Elder Rajendran: "in tamil??"
"No!! English"
"Ohhh, planner." ...
Well, everyone have a good week! I love you all <3
Love, Elder Baker
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