Dearest family!
Wow life is just full of changes right now! Dad i will be praying for you.... and i feel for you but im not sad because i know we will all see grandpa again...and what a glorious day it will be! I love you dad...and Congrats Danielle and Steve! A Girl! How special! and thanks for the pics your apartment looks so cute.
I am so excited to tell you about this past week! Amazing! Friday night we went back to Poco for Larry's baptism!!!!!!! wow! It was so special and emotional to be back with my wonderful friends there and the spirit was extremely strong....and Steve, Sheila and thier daughter McKenzie were there they are a family that we taought almost the whole time i was in Poco. Steve has not been to church for 30 years..hes not active and his wife is not a member....anyway we use to meet with them twice a week but she was taking very small steps....and then some miracles happened such as the poco sisters basement suite was flooded just as steve and shielas basement suite was finished so they moved in! Yeah can anyone say ....miracle? So we did exchanges after the baptism and i stayed with sis. Barnum at shielas house.....when we got home from the baptism shiela came down stairs and said "what was that feeling i had at the baptism? i have never felt anything like that! it was so wonderful...so we explained and rejoiced and they invited us up for breakfast in the morning......so sister barnum and i prayed right before we went up for breakfast and we both had a strong imprission that we were going to set a date for shiela that day......and guess what? as we were talking everyone got emotional and sheila told us that she had dream that she was getting baptised!!!!! so through tears we set the date for the first Saturday in February!!!!!!!!!wow the Lord is amazing!!!!!! and steve was even crying...he had to leave the room to get some tissues..... wow! The spirit was so strong and i feel so blessed and privileged to be there for that! Can you imagine? The Lord is so great! Oh and then that day was full of many more miracles including Jennifer, the women i told you about last week who was drinking weed with milk..... welll we promised her that we would visit her if she went back the hospital and so we kept out promise because the hospital is in Poco.... we got a bit lost on the way there and it was so spooky....its this really old large mental hospital and there was lots of fog that day and all these bare creepy trees and i saw some of the most interesting people ever there.... but anyway we got a little lost...but that was part of Gods plan because we walked in and asked for jennifer and her mom happened to have walked in at that exact moment. so she took us up there and told us that Jennifer had been waiting for us and knew that we would come....so we sat on the couch with Jenifer and i was so overcome with love for this women...i held her hands and offered a prayer for her and i was overcome with love that God feels for this women who has completely ruined her brain and her life.... and she is not even capable of becoming a member of the church but that is how much God cares about the individual....that all these things happened to lead us to this women just to let her know that God loves her so much.... i have been forever touched by this experience. wow...so im not done yet...cuz June was baptized Sunday after church!!!!!!!!wow the most amazing baptism i have ever been to! We had 80 people from the ward stay to witness her baptism! The spirit was so stong.... the speakers did an amazing job and sis anderson, elder park and i sang "I stand all amazed." wow and then we had a pot luck after and June made so many friends....oh yeah and we had the water to hot so there was a delay ....bishop almost burned his feet off......so we had to wait and put more cold water in....but it was so special because the ward started singing hymns rather then just stand there and there was so much unity felt!!!!!WoW! i cant even express the joy i feel! if iwas any more full of joy i might pass out like Ammon did when he felt joy! HA HA well i better get....i know this all sounds too good to be true but it really is that good because Our father in heaven is so wonderful! I am soooo grateful for the gospel! It changes life's....and sharing it has changed my life forever and i just want you all to know that Jesus Christ is the way!He is the truth and the Light! I love Him so much and He has helped me so much! I love you all ! Love, sister flake
