Email May 25, 2009

Well hello everybody!
Good to hear from all of you! Congrats on the excellent grades bros! And yea Dawson you are done with high school! How does that feel? I appreciate the pictures you sent. Well i love you all and are so proud of you!
Well this week was the most stressful of my whole mission i think. But the Lord is helping me learn to cope with stress. So basically we changed the baptism date for Keith and Tiffany about five times. We were having the hardest time coordinating with parents and with leaders. Anyway it was a big mess. But what happened is that Tiffany will be waiting for her dad to be prepared to use his priesthood so he can baptise her....probably in a month or so. And we ended up having Keith's baptism on Sunday. So all this stress kind of building up was finally washed away as we watched Keith wash away his sins in the waters of baptism! Beautiful! The service was beautiful! We had the youth do the talks and prayers and it was awesome to see how they are so accepting of him. And Keith's mom was there and was really fellow shipped well so we will be working on her, as well as Keith I'm sure. So Keith bore his testimony after the baptism and tears of joy just filled my eyes! The Lord has great things prepared for him. Last week he told us that his class mates and teachers were all throwing questions at him during class when he announced to them that he was going to be a Mormon. He said he was surprised because he was able to answer all the questions. He has so much courage and i am just so pleased with the strength of character of the youth of the church today! wow!
Also Katie went to six hours of church yesterday. She really just thirsts after knowledge! Teaching her has been such a blessing....and like i said before....shes teaching us too. I love the people here. I love teaching people of their true relationship with their Heavenly Father. There is no other message other then the true restored gospel that could get me to walk up to crazy looking people of all walks of life and bring up something as controversial as religion. This gospel means everything to me! I know that this is Gods church!
Love, sister Flake