Week 29: So I do believe that Soeur Smith will get to see a baptism in Luxembourg!

Naomi--- GOOD LUCK on this amazing adventure that you're about to embark on! I wish you the best and know that God is with you!

I was so happily overwhelmed when I opened my email today. Thank you friends and familiy for all of the time you spend showing me your love. You really cant understand how much it means to me. Thank you thank you thank you!

Our mission is up to 110 baptisms since June and a total of 224 for the year. The work is hastening. 

So i just read that we have 270 missionaries in our mission right now and 60 more that are coming in between now and December... Ridonk right? Not too many are going home either. Can you imagine that our mission is going to have like 320 missionaries????? I'm so impressed by our president. I can't imagine taking care of all of us.

Our District...we are holding up the number of transfers we have had

So nothing more has come of Immogen yet.. but don't give up hope cause we haven't :)

We had a somewhat cool yet depressing experience Monday night. It was way late, like 8:55 p.m. and we were walking home and we stopped this Luxembourgish family (Luxembourgish people don't really listen normally.. I don't blame them, it's not like I would have listened to missionaries either if I were them, I'm definitely grateful I was taught by awesome parents the gospel). The dad said that they needed to go home and put their little child to bed who was with them. The mom agreed but after a moment she told the dad to go on ahead and start putting the little girl to bed and that shed be there soon. We approached her of course with internal families and she had more insights than I have ever heard. We asked her why her family is important to her and she took like five minutes to answer the question when people normally take like one sentence when they say "uh, I don't know. Because they are my family and they love me." It ends up that this lady was diagnosed with cancer about a year ago and really it changed her life. Luxembourg is very money focused and she simply said that she decided not to be and that she in turn was going to help the foreigners who are flooding into Luxembourg from all over the world because they have so little. We talked with her for like another ten minutes, and we then asked her (her name is Stefanie), if she would be interested in learning more about the Plan that God has for her and her life. I was so shocked to hear the word yes come out of my mouth and that she wanted to meet with us the next day. I was shocked. We were so happy. So we spent extra time the next morning preparing and practicing her lesson and then the phone rang.. it was her. She said that she looked us up online and she decided that she was going to do some more research on her own before meeting with us. She said that it was not by happenstance that she ran into us and that she really does think that she needs to focus more on her spiritual side because there needs to be a balance in life but as for now she needs to take care of herself physically. She said that shell keep our number and call us if she feels the need to meet with us. As you can imagine we were pretty disappointed. But I think we planted a really good seed if you ask me.

Miriam Cloque. Amazing. From Bolivia. She took all the lessons like ten years ago. She knows the church is true. Her knowledge and testimony of the gospel is just so amazing to me. She unfortunately was living with her boyfriend for quite a while and he was really prohibitive when it comes to letting her go to church and what not .. and the law of chastity. She is the lady that we helped move my first week here. She moved into a home for women and guess what.. shes ready to be baptized. We met with her last Wednesday and this Sunday is her baptismal date. it will probably also be Soeur Smith's last Sunday here because transfers are next week. We are so excited and so blessed. Yay for baptisms!

Speaking of the law of chastity; we taught it to our 25 year old investigator who is dating this RM back in Utah. She was so worried that he hadn't made out with her yet and when we taught the law of chastity and explained his thought process.. she was really impressed. she had never thought about things in the way we were describing them. It made me really grateful to be so young and have such great knowledge in regards to those types of things. Gods commandments truely are a blessing and keep us safe from so many heartaches.

Well I seriously can't wait till next week!!

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