"This week was an amazing week. Carine got baptized!"

Dear family and friends,

This week was an amazing week. We had a lot of great things happen. First off, Carine got baptized! I am so happy. She is an amazing woman! Her and Ernst are still having problems, but we told them both that as long as they tried to become more Christ-like as individuals, read in the scriptures, and pray, then they would get closer together as a couple. We realized that as long as they pass the baptismal interview, it is still okay. Carine is for sure ready. She is keeping all her commitments. Sister Monestine, who does Creole translation for Sacrament meeting, told us that other members said that Carrine had been calling them when they didn't show up to church to see how they were doing. That is so awesome! Plus Duponte has not missed a week of church since the first Sunday he randomly showed up to church in August. He went to Carine's baptism yesterday. So did Carlo. He wanted to see because he loves baptisms and he heard that I was baptizing, so he wanted to see it, because he saw that I had to do it twice for the kid I baptized a month ago, so he said that I didn't have power when I did it. He has been feeding us a lot to make us "stronger" He said I did a good job yesterday. He told Elder Terry when he got in the area that Elder Terry would do his baptism because I was too weak. :) I thought that was funny. I am a little disappointed I might not be doing it because I have been teaching him forever.

Cindy also was baptized! She is the South Elder's investigator. She was an investigator that Elder Furner and Elder Clark lost contact with before I came to the area. We spent a lot of time trying to track her down, but then three weeks ago she gave Elder Shipley and I a call and now Elder Furner and Elder Hartman have baptized her because she is in there area. She is awesome!

By the way, the mission had 74 baptisms this month. That is pretty good.

Also, they enlarged the mission boundaries and more missionaries will be added to the mission from the Orlando mission.  Now we will have 160 missionaries.

Also, Roodschill, Alisha, and Kiara all received distinct answers that this church is true and that the book of Mormon is true! They are all kids. Roodschill said he asked if the Mormons were true and he had a feeling as though electricity went through his whole body and lighted his soul. For a thirteen year old kid, that is super awesome. He has a date for the 13th.

Alisha had the feeling, but she doesn't recognize that this is the true church yet. She asked "is the Mormon church true, or should I go to the seventh day church," and she had a good feeling and she assumed that meant that she should go to the seventh day. But she isn't quite sure yet. But she is positive she had a feeling.

Tido is okay. He is happy and he is excited to come to church some time. He forgave us.

Carine had a dream on Saturday night that if she got baptized without her husband, he wouldn't get baptized. We prayed in a room about what to do, and we decided in the end to have Carine focus on how she felt about the dream. She wasn’t exactly sure what the dream meant or what was going on.

We took brother Kovacavic to Carlo's house and Carlo invited him to his house to eat Haitian food with us on Sunday. Him and his wife came and it was an awesome experience. Carlo invited them both to come on Wednesday again to eat some more food.

Elder Hartman is going home because of some back problems. We are amazing that this is happening. Elder Terry, Elder Furner, and I will be in a threesome until the end of the week.

Bye everyone! I love you!

Love

Elder Seamons

[answer to some questions] I am driving.  Elder Furner is in the apartment with us and his Companion is Elder Hartman from Idaho. I am still the district leader.

Baptism of Corine

Sunrise with Elder Terry and Elder Seamons