Baptism x2

Fun Story of the week: On Sundays, we stand by the doors and welcome people into the sacrament room every week. This week, we had a little 4 year old boy stand next to us and shake everybody's hand as they walked in. It was adorable, until sacrament started but he refused to close the door so he could shake everyone's hand and it took 5 minutes before the priests could bless the sacrament... He's gonna be such a good missionary some day :,)

This week has been a week! It started out great when we had a lesson on Wednesday and our mission Presidents wife came! She really made our friend we have been working with for a while feel comfortable, and she opened up about her past. That Sunday she came to church! (well, just the second hour but trust me, we were thrilled about that) We were so grateful she took the time out of her busy week to come with us and give us advice on how to best work with our people :)

This weekend was fantastic because we had 2 baptsims!! Kaylee, a girl Sister Isabell and her past companion have been working with for quite some time, was baptized on Friday. A lot of her nonmember family came, and we can tell their hearts were touched as we could feel the spirit strongly as she was baptized :) Then on Saturday, Phoenix, who was someone I found and taught in Nawton with Sister Fonua and Meto (#Throwbacks) was baptized on Saturday! Even though it wasn't in my area, I was able to attend and give a talk before the baptism. It was such a sweet and spiritual weekend :)

For my spiritual thought I'd like to tell a story! (full of stories today...) So we are working with a girl who's dad is very less active but she was sort of interested in taking the lessons. In their home, they have 4 cats, a mother with 3 kittens. My first time we visited, it REEKED of cat urine. I had to go home and wash my jacket because it still smelled so badly. This last time we visited them, it still smelled pretty horribly. We asked the mom what she had been up to that day, and she told us she had been super busy cleaning the ceiling. I had to suppress a laugh, because the house was a bit of a mess and didn't smell too great. But it got me thinking. In our lives, do we ever try to clean up the little sins, when there is something big we know we need to work on? Sometimes we will spend time cleaning the ceiling, even though we know it won't make that much of an impact on our lives as if we cleaned the rest of the house. I invite each of you to think of something you have been putting off, whether it be repenting or studying or anything gospel related, and work on it this week.
I hope you all have a great week!

Ofa atu a todos!

Sister Keller