This week went fairly well... We were able to meet
with our investigator that is set for the 5th of October and he seems to
be progressing well. He did not end up coming to church however, so we
will have to push his baptism back another week. It's probably a good
thing so now we don't have to work around doing the baptism in between
General Conference sessions.
We had a ray of light this last Sunday which has turned into a
small flicker of light. We received a referral Saturday night for a man
that wants to come to church. We set up a ride for him and we met him
the next morning. He seemed eager to learn and wants to come to our
church. We met with him last week and we found out that he was Muslim.
We knew that there were some restrictions concerning Muslim individuals
because they could be in danger if someone back home found out that they
joined the church. Well we decided to teach him the first lesson and
then we called our mission president afterward. Our mission president
said that he cannot be baptized if he has family back home or if he ever
plans to go back to Iran. It is a tough situation because this man
wants to be baptized but he has a lot of family back home. We explained
that he cannot be baptized and we are still working on having the
mission president come to a lesson with us. We can still teach him and
he can still come to church. We told him that he can receive all of the
blessings of the gospel that are available to everyone, however he may
not have the opportunity to be baptized in this life.
Last week we had Elder Neil L. Andersen and Elder Tad R. Callister
come to our mission. The meeting was with the Las Vegas mission and the
Las Vegas West Mission!!! It was a great experience! (We were a little
put out because we didn't get ipads but that's coming next summer haha)
I love you all and hope that all is going well in your lives!!!
Love,
Elder John
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