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| I'm such a dork (Shelby's words, not her Mom's) |
I´m so glad that Cooper had so much fun at EFY! I knew that he would, and I wish that I could talk to him about it! Aw it breaks my heart that he is going to be so grown up by the time I get home! MAYBE by then I will be able to tell the difference between his voice and yours;) JOKES! I knew all the girls would love him. Dangit. Tell him to always be a gentleman, please. And I can´t believe the summer is almost over there! Time is flying wayyyy fast...next week I will have been out for 4 months! What the heck! Also, tell Hunter Musgrave I wish him the best of luck and I´m praying for him and that I´m super sorry I never wrote him back! But I just have total confidence that he will be amazing and change lives in the Philippines! And good luck to Steven too! Aww remember when he was in carpool with us and Leslie and I wanted to hang him out the window sometimes? Good times! But he will be great too and I am so proud of our ward!
Ok, on to this week! It was reallyyyyy great! We had some major miracles happen. Remember Maria Eduarda and Valesca? Well their mom has wanted to get baptized too! She has such a testimony and is fully supportive of her daughters and lovesssss us, but her boyfriend was living with her and so she couldn´t get baptized. The house belongs to him, so there wasn´t really a way that she could end things. We prayed sooo much for her! Then on Wednesday we felt like we should go over to her house at night and invite her to come talk to the Bispo about what she should do. As soon as we walked in, she just ran up to us and goes "We need to talk!" So we started to walk over to the church and she told us that the day before, her boyfriend just decided that he needed to leave. I think that he realized that he was holding her back from baptism, so he just bailed! She was so happy and we set a baptism date for Saturday!
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| Sister Seidmann and Valesca |
Saturday came, and it was CRAZY. Did you know that the devil hates baptisms? He really does! He was working so hard to make sure that everything that could go wrong did! The font was clogged, people didn´t show, everything was a mess and I was so stressed! But as soon as Fatima got into the water, everything was ok and I was so happy that I just started crying! This family is so special to me and now they will be eternal!
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| Fatima and family...All Baptized :) |
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| Sister Dana, Fatima and Sister Seidmann |
We had another baptism yesterday, for Gabriel! He is 8 and is so cute. His mom is going to be baptized next month after she gets married. I get to help plan a wedding! Oh frick I was so excited when I figured that out. But Gabriel was way adorable and I was blessed to have a lot of peace during his baptism too, even though it was stressful.
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| Gabriel and Irmao Francisco |
We are teaching this girl, Julia, and she is amazing. Her and her little primas (cousins) just adore Sister Seidmann and I and they write us letters and freak out every time we come over. They are way smart too! Like, after we taught the Plan of Salvation, they fully taught it back to us...and did a better job than I did. I know that the kids here are super special. We teach SO MANY teenage girls, and I love it because in the words of Sister Dalton, "When you save a girl, you save generations." I hope that we can show these girls that they have an opportunity for a better life and they don´t have to follow the world down here! They are really strong and I love them:)
Ahh a ton happened this week...mostly just rain and sloshing through water up to our knees. Sister Seidmann makes sure to check me for leeches every time we go through it. Isn´t that so cool?! I´m dead serious, every day is an adventure! It´s great! I fould some gel shoes here that I use because my poor little shoes just don´t have the willpower to survive this place, and we are going to go shopping today:)
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I love you so much and I pray for you guys every day! Mom! Be happy! Just forget about me, ok?? I am in the Lord´s hands and all is well! And happy birthday to Penny! She`s a whole half dollar now!
Love,
Sister Dana
