May 4 Email

News from Sister Flake in Kelowna, BC, Canada

Subject: This is God's work!

OH my goodness! I feel so blessed to be a part of this great work! Things have really taken off here! It's been a spiritually powerful week! At zone conference president inspired us to challenge more people to be baptized...not to wait tell their ready...but to challenge them to be ready....so we asked almost everyone this week and we now have two people being baptized on the 23 of May! Well i don’t think that I have told you about them yet. Tiffany is 12 years old. Her father is a member that hasn’t been to church for years because of work..... but we have been teaching her and her friend Keith who is 13 and had interest. So we have been teaching them for about a month and they are so wonderful. I love teaching them. They both came to church yesterday and they are already excited to be involved in the activities and the youth really engulfed them! Yea for the wonderful members of the ward. One little problem is that Keith's mom is Catholic and has not agreed yet. So please pray that she will soften her heart and allow him to be baptized! He received his answer about the Book of Mormon and started reading it at school during reading time. His friends have tried telling him bad rumors about Mormons and he was strong enough to resist! WOW! For the strength of youth!
Also pray for Mauro....he is one of those eternal investigators...he wants to be baptized so bad but he is an alcoholic.....but this week he called and said he is done with the beer! He said he was drinking and looked at the beer he was holding in his hand and as he read the brand of beer he was determined to change....the can read "Hells gate" clever brand name eh?
Now to tell you of some answered prayers. I told you how our ward is in the "way older" category...and most our investigators are young....so we have been going to the other ward to find fellow shippers. Well yesterday at church we had 9 people in their 20s move in to sell security systems for the summer! We already have two of them coming to appointments with us this week! WOW! The Lord is so amazing! what a huge blessing! And Dan came to church this week. He's praying for a baptism date! and then another amazing thing that God did for us ....we had scheduled two appointment at the church Friday night....not knowing that the other ward had a convert baptism scheduled that night as well. (the elders forget to tell us those things sometimes) but anyway God knew...and it all worked out because Dan and David got to be at the baptism and the spirit was powerful as usual! Thank you Heavenly Father! So as you can tell I am very happy and being a part of this great work is so fulfilling. I know that this is God's church! I know that Joseph Smith was a prophet! I know that God is with us in this work! The gospel is true....you better believe it!

Love, sister flake