"Thanks for all of your prayers and support"

Dear Family and Friends,


We had a great week. We didn't have as many people at church, but that was okay. We didn't follow up with people and get them prepared as well for church, which is probably why. We had stake conference and it was great. We had three investigators there: Carlo Joseph (fourth time at church), Jenifer (second time at church), and Duponte (third time at church in a row!). The young single adult sisters had a baptism for Shannon, a very long time investigator. He is very awesome. We had to plan four baptismal interviews to get it to happen, but it did. There were a lot of people there too! :) Duponte stayed for the baptism and Duponte's friend Yves came to the church after conference ended to see it.

Duponte is awesome! He was in the Jehovah’s Witness church for 8 years, but he doesn't feel good about everything that goes on in that church. He has been to many other churches in search of the truth. He is very willing to act. He came to church randomly with his friend Yves two Sundays in a row and we sat with him. He read the first 15 chapters of the Book of Mormon in two days. We gave him a date for the 4th of September accepted. We have the baptism, the interview, and all the appointments until his baptism planned out. He told several members when he was getting baptized. We are really excited.

Jenifer said that she would like to go to the North Miami Beach Spanish ward instead because she likes it better. So we will be passing her [to the Spanish Elders]. We were really disappointed, but we are happy that she is enjoying the church so much. She says that she wants to get sealed with her husband in the temple some day after she gets baptized.

Cemania is having a really hard time. She loves the church and she feels that we teach the truth, but then she looked up stuff on the internet about the church that bothered her (Blacks and the priesthood) She was really conflicted about it and on Saturday she texted us a lot and said that she didn't want us to come back over and teach her anymore. We went over immediately and she told us how she feels so confused and conflicted. I don't know enough about the subject to be absolutely sure about what all of the facts are. We told her several things. She said that in general she is tired of all the churches saying different things because she doesn't know what to do or where to turn. She told us that she thought of just giving up and not going to any church and just studying on her own. We shared with her 2 Nephi 26:33 which talks about how God inviteth all, Black, White, Bond and free, male and female to come unto him and he denieth none. That helped her feel so much better. She told us that she knew that understanding why God does things won't be easy and she decided to keep studying with us because it would be the more difficult route. She knows that the easy route isn't always the best one. We were so grateful for the spirit. I was out of words to say to her. But she felt something undeniable and she decided to stick was it. This is the second time that she has almost dropped us.

Great news! Georges told us that because he now has six months working in the Marriot Hotel, he will now have the ability to request days off and get them. He says that in two weeks he will be able to have every Sunday off! That means that he will be baptized! We picked the 4th of September for him. We are all really excited.

We have several new investigators who are really interested in what we have to say. We met someone named Jacques whose house we blessed and the same day we passed by. He read the whole introduction and testimony of Joseph Smith and he knew the whole story of how Moroni appeared to Joseph three times in the night and another time after Joseph came back from the field on his way home. We were so amazed. He says he will read more and pray. We also met Katia, who is the sister of someone who came up to us and wanted us to come over. She called us yesterday and today to say hi to us and she told us that she wanted to come to the church yesterday, but it is too far. We told her to take the bus and she said she will. We are so excited.

Bye! Everyone! I love you so much! Thank you for all of your prayers and your support!

Love,

Elder Seamons