weekly update 4/10/2012

Dearest Family and Friends

Things are going great here Sian was confirmed a member on Sunday. She still seems to be excited. The members really have been a great help in her conversion! It was a different experience, we did the teaching the members did the rest.

We were given a lift of all the people who were baptized in the last 3 years and asked to contact them, and give them support. As we were contacting each of these converts, we met a lady named Audry Thomas, who is on the list. I have not seen her at church since I have been here in Rossendale Valley, so I didn’t really know anything about her. Anyway we knocked by and she we had a great conversation. We focused on answering her questions and concerns, and then invited her to church. Then on Sunday Audrey and her son, Mathew, walked through the door! She seemed to have enjoyed it!

Tom is doing really well. We saw him on taught him on Thursday. We had a weekly focus on building faith. And part of it was to study faith. Both Elder Jensen and I felt like would should share with tom a few things about what we learnt from these studies, particularly on taking a leap of faith. During the lesson Tom had told us a bit about his life before we spoke to him on the bus. He was saying that he was on the border line of depression. He said that he was grateful that we spoke to him on the bus because his life has gotten a lot better since then and he has been a lot happier.


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With Love,
Elder Ballantyne