Email September 8, 2014

Hello family and friends, It's been a good week. Nick and Steve are still looking forward to Saturday September 13th at 5:00 pm as their baptism! I am so excited for them! About a month ago an active member family's eight year old daughter was being baptized and the Dooleys came to see it. A couple nights later, Steve was saying how touched he was by the baptism and that he cried because he loves the covenant that is being made and the promises we receive if we are faithful to those covenants. He cried and it wasn't even his own baptism! I can't wait for him at his own baptism. He deserves it so much and I love them both so much, I can't wait for them this Saturday. It's going to be incredible. Jennifer lost a good friends a few days ago and so we went to her house as soon as possible to see her. She was doing okay. Over text she said all she wanted to do was cry, but when we showed up she was doing seemingly fine. She was drinking like she does half the time and we kinda just talked about what she did, not necessarily the gospel, but she was the one to bring up that we were going to take her on a church tour and wanted to do it soon. So we have one set up for Thursday night! We left her with a couple of pages to read out of the Restoration pamphlet and we told her we would be going over it at the church tour, which I'm so excited for because she'll (hopefully) be sober and modest and we'll have a member present and we'll be able to feel the Spirit so much stronger in the chapel! It'll be sweet, I can't wait. Brad we couldn't meet with this week because we were doing service on Saturday but we're planning on teaching the Restoration next. Hopefully he'll be sober enough to understand. He's funny about when he wants to meet. Our first talk with him he said the next time he wants to meet was sometime in the afternoon. So we showed up at 2ish and he was already drunk. He said "We said afternoon so I was expecting you guys at 12:01!!" Every meeting with him after that, we've been there at 12:01! There is some sad news this week. Very sad news. A week or two ago, David and Nicky lost their baby at 9 1/2 weeks into the pregnancy. :( They didn't find out until about 11 weeks either, so they are very shaken up. They are Christian and believe in Christ and God, and they believe that they will be helped through this trial. Which is great! They will be helped because of their faith in Christ I have no doubt about that. But we're hoping that they will ask us and their neighbors, the Chittocks (our ward mission leader's family), about our beliefs concerning the life after this one and things of similar subjects, because I feel it will bring them so much peace and comfort. We love them, they love us, and we all just want to help each other out. :) Keep them in your prayers please! Other than those things, we still haven't been able to pick up any new investigators. We did get a few referrals though and we're excited to contact them. Things are going well, still learning lots and loving lots! The mission is all around crazy. In so many ways. It's amazing. :) I love you guys and wish you all the best this coming week! Go make miracles happen with your unshakable faith! Love you! Love, Elder Cevering