Mom and Dad: Happy 31st Anniversary! You are the best!

August 18, 2008

Dearest family and friends,
So Junior Aguirre (Ashley's brother, Heather's 10-yr-old son) got baptized on saturday!! It was so exciting! So now their whole little family are all baptized. Junior came out from getting dry and dressed with a great big smile on his face and he just beamed. Heather was so excited and so proud at the baptism, that was really neat to see. I still am just amazed at the totally different woman Heather has become since I first met her. And the fact that the more one lives the commandments and follows God, the more one is blessed, spiritually and temporally, is so evident in Heather, I just can't almost believe it. Everything in her life, practically, is going better since she got baptized. It's amazing. The Church is true! And Junior liked Primary for pretty much the first time yesterday! Yay! :)
To answer your question Dad, the Debbie that quit coffee is the same one that still needs to quit smoking. She knows she is going to quit, it's just a matter of when. She still says she's not quite ready, but keep praying for her. We're hoping to help her quit this week, so she can get baptized by the end of August. She is doing so great though. Everything we tell her, about new commandments and things, she just grabs a hold of and runs with it. She's amazing. She has so much faith and trust in us and in the Lord, that this is the truth and that she will be blessed for keeping these commandments. Her daughter Katie probably won't be baptized in August because she still hasn't come to church yet, and they need to come at least 2 times before they get baptized. She feels really good about the BOM and about everything she's been learning, and also about her baptism, but she just keeps sleeping til like 2 pm on accident on sudays, or doesn't feel good. That darn Satan is good at what he does, that's for sure. So as soon as the dang girl comes to church twice, we'll throw her in the water. :) just kidding, we love her. I really like Katie. She's our age and she's really chill and down to earth. She's great. Plus, don't forget, she can see my fairy. :)
Oh! other news of the week: Remember Donna Turner, the lady that we were teaching a few months ago, and she seemed so golden (had always been curious about our church, seemed to accept it all, knew the BOM was true, and we set a bap. date on like the 3rd lesson), and then noted us saying we didn't need to come back? Well, to make a long story short, we are teaching her again, and we have an appt. to teach her husband too this week! Before, he was nice enough to us, but not open really at all to learning more himself about the church. But the other day we stopped by when Donna wasn't there, and just talked to him for a while and it was so great. He told us he's been wanting to come to our church for a while, but he is afraid of Donna's parents (very Church of Christ, which is what Donna and he (and their kids) are too), which sounds like is the same concern Donna has had the whole time, is her parents, and what their reaction will be. But it's going to work out, and we are teaching her again, and she still knows the BOM is true, and we're so excited!
We've had a really great week again, with many people to teach and many new investigators again. Heavenly Father is blessing us so much, His hand is SO in this work, it's amazing.
I just read the little "Missionary moments" column on the back of the church news the other day, from a recent week (not sure what week)
and it was really really good, entitled "Coffee? No, thanks" You should all read it--it illustrates the power of just opening our mouths has.
I love you all, and I'm so happy for all of you that you are enjoying watching the Olympics (especially you, Mom:). We live with avid Olympic watchers and when we get in at night and go in the kitchen to say hi and they are watching them, it's all I can do to not watch them. But they have been keeping us up to date on Michael Phelps at least, he's amazing! Go USA!
The Church is true!
Have a great week!
Love, Sister Melissa Gurr