Thank you sooo much for the updates
and for doing the FHE!
I got your package containing the chili packets
THANKS!!!!! (CHILI PARTY SOON!)
We had a baptism this week.
Actually, so much has happened....A. D. was the boy that was baptized. He is 12
and he wanted me to baptize him. He is so young but he really impressed
everyone on how converted he is. I love that guy. When the baptism was over, he
was walking out of the font and he slipped on the steps and fell back into the
water! Haha. He was fine; it just looked like he dove in for another go! We all
laughed including him and when we closed the door I asked if he was OK and if
he slipped. He answered yea and then we both began to laugh again. Haha.
Soooo, My Kenyan brother is leaving
me to take over the area..:( I will miss him tooooo much. He has been my
companion through my whole mission so far and he really was just more of a
brother. He is going to Lesotho.
STORY TIME: So when I had been on my
mission a month, we got a new car (a manual) and we went to a place called
Hillcrest Toyota. We talked to the receptionist and she seemed very businesslike
and very formal. She helped us and on the way out she followed us out and
called "Missionaries, wait!” We went back in and talked to her. She has
been a less active member for 16 years. She says her life is not very good
right now and she wanted some help from the Elders and she wanted some
scriptures; a triple combination. We were kind of taken aback and decided that
we would do our best to help her. We contacted the Elders where she lives, and
we went to the office, bought the scriptures for her and we said goodbye. We
thought that would be the end of it. We were playing basketball last week and
the Elders that we had given her information to were there. They said thanks
for the contact information and that she was really powerful and they visit her
a lot and she comes to church now. HOLY COW! Our jaws dropped. So we get a call
from her a couple days ago and she asks us to come back to the dealership that
she wants to speak with us. Because of our schedule, the only day we could go
was just before we came to the email shop today. (Cause my comp/baba Elder
Kinyaka is leaving.) Soooo, she finishes her work and goes on break and then
she walks outside with us. She starts by
saying thanks for coming to meet her and that the Elders that visited her were
amazing and that she was sooo very thankful. Then she told us her story. She
said that she had been reading anti Mormon literature many years ago, and as
she was, she met some missionaries and realized how wrong the literature was and
ended up converted to the restored gospel of Jesus Christ instead! She was a
strong member and even got her Endowments, but her husband was angry and kicked
her and the children out onto the streets, where she lived for 3 months. For
some reason she was unable to get help, and became offended and left the church.
She has been going through some very hard times recently and was not happy with
her life....Then she said we came into the dealership. She teared up (she is not
a woman you would see tear up) and she said she couldn't thank us enough. She
knows this church is true and wouldn't even deny it when she was less active.
She said she isn’t the kind of person that expresses her love much, but she
said, “I have to thank you and tell you how much I love you.” Wow. Missionaries
really are charged with bringing important and precious people BACK to our
Heavenly Father. Wow.
Gotta go! I love you all soooooooo
much! :) Ngiyanithanda khakhulu!!!!!
Love,
Elder Petrie
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