Another Week, this time with some sunshine
Hi Family,
 
This email will be short so I will apologize in advance.  This past week has been a really good week as the work is moving forward and we are doing alot of great things.  The biggest progress we were able to see was with EJ.  As you know we have been teaching EJ for some time now and to know what his hang ups are have always been a challenge. Well when we were planning the lesson we felt prompted to discuss the plan of salvation. Not knowing why we needed to discuss this we just went with it know the spirit knows alot better than we do. The lesson went so well that night, EJ had some question about the plan and we were able to discuss and help him understand more what the plan was about. At the end we asked him were he wanted to be in regards to the plan, his response was well I want the same as all of you. So we said OK how do you obtain this. It was great to hear him answer and then to say well I have already been baptised and to know that is his biggest hang up is not understanding the authority has truly been lost. It was a great lesson and I know he will come to know the truth of it with the spirit.
 
We also said goodbye to one of our investigators as she is leaving to Vegas for 3 or 4 months. She wants to continue the lessons down there and be baptised, so we are going to get that set up for her.  It has been great teaching her and I know she will be baptised soon as she needs it in her chaotic life. Most of the rest of the week was teaching our regulars and they are all doing well. We are looking forward to the baptism of Sonya in Sept, she is excited and preparing herself. She is going through some really hard trials right now with a custody battle, we challenged her to fast last week for extra strength and it was amazing to hear her testimony of it when she was done. Oscar has also picked that same day to be baptised and we are excited for him. He told us this week he has some uneasy feelings about it, when I asked what those feeling were he had no idea. Satan works pretty hard on us when he knows we are making the right decisions. We talked about faith with him and moving forward in faith knowing it is the right thing, he has a testimony he just needs to recognize it. 
 
Well I hope you are all doing well, Love you all.
 
Love,
 
Sister Booth
Location: Alaska, USA

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