Great Things Happening

Things here are good with the work. It has been amazing to see the ways that our investigators are progressing. Ashley, who is Crystil's neighbor, is doing so good. She was able to make it to the full day at church for the first time this week and she had a really good time. The Spirit has been working with her so much. She has absolutely started to love reading the Book of Mormon and has been cruising through it so fast! We were able to read the Book of Mormon with her in a members home this week, and that was so good. That is something that can really help investigators, reading in members homes. We have really been focusing on reading the Book of Mormon as a mission recently, and it has helped a lot. It was really cool this week because the Relief Society in our ward threw a baby shower for Crystil's daughter and apparently it went extremely well. Crystil's daughter felt so loved and the sisters in the ward did such a good job at fellowshipping her. Crystil and Anthony are going to be going up to the Portland temple this week to do baptisms for the dead! The youth are going up for a temple trip, so it is going to be a great opportunity for them. Ashley and Angelica are also going to be going up with the youth and are going to be visiting the visitor's center while the rest of the them are doing baptisms. 

We had a cool miracle this week with one of the newer investigators that we are teaching. His name is Andrew. He has been having a rough week, so we went and visited him on Saturday. We had a really good conversation with him and invited him to church. He said that he would try to come to church, but wasn't sure. On Sunday morning, we received a text from him and he said that he was going to come! He showed up to church and stayed for Sacrament meeting and he really enjoyed it. The ward did a really good job at helping him feel loved and he said that he wanted to come back again. We were excited about that!