Are You an Elder? June 29th, 2012 Letter

Hello!

This is our success story of the month! We are trying to have at least 1 big one like this every month, and so far things are going well.

I love you,  I know you already heard this story but I thought you might like to see the pictures too!

Elder Munk

 

Are You an Elder?

We just finished teaching a family and we are walking outside on the way to our next appointment. We went to our van and grabbed the door but suddenly we felt a prompting to just walk. We decided to follow the prompting and so we did. We’ve walked a considerable distance around the block already when we heard a voice yelling at us. It’s a young boy at about 15 years of age chasing us, he paused and asked, “Are you an Elder?”. We said yes then he exclaimed, “Come, follow me…my Mom is less active and I want you to baptize me right now”. Shock and surprised, we followed Lucky into their home.

We met the mother, Sis. Annabele and her youngest daughter, Jessica. The mother was a member since she was a child but has been less active for the past 20 years. She always tells stories to her children about the church and she always asks them to call the Elders whenever they see them. That’s why her eldest son, Lucky, chased us. Sister Annabele wanted a change in her life. She has been praying that one day one of her children will see the Elders. We are happy and grateful to be an answer to that prayer. We taught the children and they started to come to church. Sis. Annabele “returned” last June 10, 2012. We took them to the temple last June 23, 2012 and the children were baptized on the same day as well. They’ve been reading their Book of Mormon every night as a family. We are currently working on the father and he’s making good progress as well. There has been a big change in this family. They became happy.

We’ve come to realize that every person needs the gospel in their lives and Heavenly Father really is starting to touch the hearts of our less active brothers and sisters. It is a testimony to us as well that we can baptize and rescue at the same time. We just need to be sensitive to the Spirit’s promptings and be ready to act when it comes.