This
week was a good week full of going out on trade off's with the
different elders in the district and finding new ways and ideas to meet
people. My companion, Elder Long and I have a baptism coming up in the
next two weeks! Her name is Quanisha, she is an eight year old girl and
full of joy and laughter. Quanisha used to have a cast on her left arm
but finally got that off so we were able to finally sit down with her
and set a date for her to get baptized. Her mom, two older sisters and
an older brother are members but are less active right now. Quanisha on
the other hand will come to church no matter what. If her family comes
or not, you bet this little eight year old girl who has this
determination to be part of our big family will do anything in order to
make it to her baptism date. This little girl is an example for me on
how much faith she is expressing to her Heavenly Father to take that
covenant of being part of the fold. She is everything I wished I was
when I was eight years old, just listening to her and how she tells
stories in our visits with her just brightens my day. This Sunday
we saw her and she came right away and gave both for us a hug. It was
nice to see that little kids like her are still able to give us hugs and
that makes us feel good because we know that it won't be long before
she passes us on our heights so we are taking advantage of being tall as
much as we can. Overall she is very excited and so are we!!
Something that I have noticed in our ward is that we
have a lot of single adults not Young single adults but SINGLE ADULTS
who are in their sixty's to seventy's kinda somewhere around there.
There are more single moms in our ward than any ward I have ever been
in, and this is something that is big not only in our zone but other
zones in New Zealand. The rate of single moms is an eye opener for all
us missionaries. Just a little visit from us members and missionaries
really goes a long ways for the single mom because they really do
appreciate the time we give to just see them. These moms are strong, and
hold onto that faith of theirs. They are so much fun to be around, it
is funny to see how much we get picked on (joking wise) from them but
Elder Long and I just take it. The work is going great and moving. Not
much happened this week but we are finding new investigators to teach.
The members do really appreciate the work that is going on in the area.
The best wishes to you all and hope your week is
full of miracles but mostly more on the fun side though. Tell me meet
again, talk to you next week! Elder Thorpe
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