So this week for me though. This week was different than normal. Most of our lessons were just making sure that everyone was ready for their baptism interviews this saturday. Which went well. But there were a few different problems. We had one who her parents are polygamist and that's a new rule here now that they have to do additional paperwork now for because that's a pretty big problem here. We had one girls mom, say that she couldn't be baptized because she's been baptized before, and people have a belief here(because this is what they're preachers tell them all of their lives) that if you're baptized twice than you're damned. But that just means that we have to explain the restoration to the mom again and than she can be baptized too(twice haha). But the only problem with that, would be that she's a polygamist too. Oh and the girl that had the blind and half deaf dad and the mom who wouldn't let her get baptized...well we finally got her to allow her to be baptized, and now her sister and the only living brother that escaped an attack that happened on him and his brothers are taking the lessons and want to be baptized. We've had lots of cool experiences with people this week praying to know if the things that we've taught them were true and they received their answers that they were. It's awesome seeing people's lives change for the better. The work is hard, but as we continue to work hard and with the Lord's help, we see the results:
This week we had 43 investigators at church. We had extra chairs put up all the way to the stairs entrance and the bathroom. There were 195 at church! I don't know how many baptisms we'll have this Saturday, but all 40 baptism dates are getting spread out between this saturday, october 1st, and october, 15th because of different problems that each of them have, like marriage, and just preparing them more.
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