Dear family and friends,
Big, Amazing, Exciting news!!!!! So you remember Kendra Wilkie, my first baptism from Glen Huon? Well I found out last week that her mum Dale is getting baptised on March 29!!!!!!!! Seriously such a miracle!! Dale has been investigating the church for over 29 years now. Her mum, and both of her daughters have been baptised within that time, and now she is finally getting baptised as well. When she began investigating the church she said that she read the Book of Mormon and prayed about it and if she should get baptised and her answer was always 'not yet'. But as the sisters were talking with her the other week they were able to help her recognize that she does indeed have a testimony of the restored gospel and that she is ready to be baptised! I am so excited for her and wish so badly that I could be down in Glen Huon again to see her baptism, but I will be cheering her on from Griffith!
Our week was actually a bit slow for Sister Dere and I. On Tuesday I took Sister Dere to the doctor to have a boil on her leg looked at. The doctor decided to operate on it right then and since then she has been doing her best to recover. We ended up spending most of two days in the flat because the medicine the doctor gave her made her drowsy and nauseous, but it gave me extra time to look through our area book and try and identify some more formers we could go see. Fortunately, on Wednesday night we got the Elders to come over and give Sister Dere a blessing and she has been doing much better since then. I am so grateful for the priesthood!
Now for the fun updates: We have a new progressing investigator! Her name is Stella and she is from Fiji. She is Seventh Day and she came to church yesterday and loved it! We also taught a lesson with her earlier this week (with her less active nephew who showed up to her flat) about temples and family history and she wants to go to the family history class on Tuesday. I love Stella, she is so amazing and has a wonderful heart!
Michael is still praying for a baptism date. He was pretty shocked this week when we taught him about the priesthood and then told him that he could hold the priesthood after he gets baptised, but he'll be right.
Mere came to church again as well. We had a good experience teaching her this week. We started talking with her about faith and she said that after she first started meeting with the sisters that she stopped believing in God, but thanks to some of her friends she started believing again and that's when she started meeting with the sisters again and coming to church. She is great because she feels like she has come back even stronger than the first time!
Last one. We went over to the Soqosoqo's this week and gave them a Fijian copy of the Book of Mormon. I was sitting there listen to Sister Dere and them conversing in Fijian, when out of nowhere Tokasa (wife) looked at her Fijian Book of Mormon and said "I think I really like this book!" Without even opening it up, she could already feel that she was going to enjoy it! I love watching their faith grow! Every time we see them I seriously can just feel that someday they will be baptised!
I'm really grateful to be in Griffith right now. We have a lot of really good work here at the moment and I can just feel that there are heaps more people out there just waiting for an answer to their prayers to hear about the restored gospel. The church is true!
Love yous heaps!
Sister Bingham
1. Dale (Kendra's mum) is in the back behind Kendra
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