Email February 23, 2015

Heya Family! This was a really good week. We were able to meet with a lot of less active members and a few investigators, which had some good progress. We had one tell us that she and her less active husband committed with each other that they would read from the Book of Mormon and pray to know the truth each night. That was really good to hear! She is really close to baptism, she just needs to do what she committed to do and then she will be able to find the answer. Another investigator called her member friend one of my first nights here and told her that she wants to be baptized before the end of the month. WHAAAAAT. I have always dreamed of that happening to me! So we met with her this week and she still wants to be baptized. She also said she has a lot she needs to work through, but she is working on them. Which is great! She didn't come to church yesterday which means she won't be able to be baptized this month, but she could very well make it in March. That would be so awesome!!! She is a really nice lady who could really use the gospel so I am very excited for her. There's an investigator who had a baptismal date, but dropped it a week or two before her baptism because I guess people didn't think she was ready. She's super nice too, but I think the consensus was that she might have been wanting to join the church for help with money and whatnot. I don't know if that's the case, but I really hope it's not. She is a funny lady, but she has been sick with pneumonia for the last two weeks so we haven't been able to meet with her. She still wants to come to church, but she couldn't because she has been so sick. We are hoping to get her back on date, but it's hard when you can't meet! Haha. I have only met her once since I've been here, and that has been two and a half weeks. She has been that sick for that long. And that once was to give her a blessing for being sick. Hopefully she gets better soon. Last we heard I think she was getting better, so that's good. Other than that, nothing too exciting happened this last week in missionary work. I went on my first exchange with an AP, we actually did a tripanionship exchange where one AP came with us and the other went with some other zone leaders. It was a super good day! We talked with so many people and got a couple potential investigators! So that is one thing that is good here in Roseville, for some reason street contacting is a lot easier. It has been really fun to do here, and we have gotten quite a few potentials through it. To the title story! We were at dinner and somehow the Exodus movie came to be the discussed subject. Supposedly it's a lot like Noah that came out about a year or so ago? Anyway, the members were telling us that Christian Bale is playing Moses. Do you know who else Christian Bale plays? If you guessed Gaston from Beauty and the Beast, you guessed wrong. He played Batman. So we all started to joke about how Moses was going to sound like Batman because he is being played by the former actor for Batman. We were saying things in the Batman voice like, "Pharaoh! Let people go!" And "Aaron! Quick! To the BatChariot!" And "Aaron, give me the BatStaff!" And a lot of others haha. It was absolutely fantastic. Plus, the husband had an absolutely majestic beard. It was magical. So yeah, it was super awesome. There also might have been mention of BatShark Repellant. Needless to say, it was a good night. :) Sorry, I know how not funny inside jokes and had-to-be-there jokes are to hide who aren't inside or weren't there. Sorry. So that was last week's updates! As for this week: We had a referral from a member. She is incredibly solid! She is ready for the gospel! She can use it so much. She has been through so much crap, it's insane. Like, I would describe what she has been and is going through as, like the saying goes, "hell or high water." She has been and is going through so much. I can't tell you guys what she is going through because it is super personal. But she is one of the strongest and most incredible people I have ever met. And the crazy part? She's 24. And she is amazingly strong. And she came to church!!! And she's reading the Book of Mormon!!! Please , please, PLEASE keep her in your prayers!!! Also, a lot of our other investigators made some progress. Not a whole lot, but hey any progress is awesome!! One of our investigators came to church! She still wants to be baptized, but we are going to have to push it back into March. But hey, again, better late than never! I'm excited for her too! Well I'm basically out of time. All I want to say now is how grateful I am that Heavenly Father watches over His children. There have been some stories I heard this week where I just know that Heavenly Father was there for protect and care for those in the different situations. Heavenly Father loves us. He is love itself. I know that. I have felt that. I know many of you have felt that. It's real! Heavenly Father loves us all!!! I love you guys! I pray for you! Have a fantastic week! Elder Cevering