Week 43 - Matthew's Baptism

Hiya!

This weeks been a bit hectic! So Sister Davis and I are both STLs and the new way of exchanges is to bring the sisters we are over into our area both at the same time. So this week we had Sister Schell and Picinich come to Nibley for the day and it was so great. For one, I love Sister Schell (she was in my old zone) and it was a great day we definitely saw miracles! On Thursday we also had Sister Ricketts and Wayment come to our area for exchanges and it was yet another great day. To worst part of this week was that it pretty much rained all day and it was like 30 degrees so we have been cold, but It never stopped us.

So next great thing was that MATTHEW WAS BAPTIZED!! Woot woot! It was an amazing baptism and the Ward supported him so much. The baptism was packed that people just had to stand because there wasn't enough room. I had so many people come up to us and say "we never thought this would happen but it did today and we are so happy!" The spirit was so strong at the baptism it was incredible. Also, President and Sister Allred came to our baptism again with Sister Bettey who got off her mission 3 months ago! It made me so happy, but also nervous when we were speaking. So a little background on Matthew. His mom, Yamile, is Catholic and his dad Paul, was inactive, up until a few months ago when he started to become active and now got to baptize Matthew. Matthew decided he wanted to learn more and now has been baptized! We are hoping to teach Yamile in the recent convert lessons:) It was a great week. We've been pretty busy with lessons and tracting. The hardest thing is when no one answers the door. We will spend a few hours knocking doors and it's the worst when no one is home. But we keep going and eventually someone will be home:) We had some great lessons with Allee and she is set for baptism on April 8th, we are so excited for her!

Matthew's family: Paul, Matthew, and Yamile.
I love this family with my whole heart. Yamile still isn't a member but we hope to change that:)

Marissa, Matthew and Sister Davis at Matthew's baptism

We spoke in sacrament again this week. It went really well but it’s always so intimidating because everyone is just staring at you. I shared a story about my dad on his mission in my talk and while I was speaking I saw the bishop and his wife crying and some others which I didn't really touched people so dearly. Also after our talks everyone now is so pumped for missionary work, we are excited! Hope you all have a great week! Remember to watch General conference! It's literally the best...like Netflix on the mission! 

Sister Bettey came to our baptism also!!!
She used to be a missionary here and actually took me out my first day as a missionary here in Logan.

Holla! Love you all!

Sister Lowe