Their Faith is Amazingly Strong

This has been an interesting week. Its getting hotter and hotter, so that always keeps things interesting, trying to find ways to stay cool. We have been trying to do a lot more finding people to teach but we are also trying to just help the people we already are teaching progress a little bit. 

 

We are working with Lora and Kaylee. Lora's husband isn't very interested but he is just fine with us coming over to teach them. They really want to be baptized, they love the church and Kaylee is excited to go to Girl's Camp this summer. But this weekend they went through some difficult trials. They wanted to invite Lora's family to their baptism, so they did, and apparently her family wasn't very fond of the idea. On Friday we learned that they were being "cruel" about their decision to join the Church, but Sunday we  found out that Lora had been disowned by her family. But their faith is amazingly strong. Even though they have gone through some difficulties, they still have a firm belief in God and still want to be baptized. They are strong enough that once they have made their decision they can stick to it, and they are set on proceeding. But they were shaken by what happened. It has made me think a little bit about just how faithful we are. Would we have the faith to forsake our family to follow Christ? I'm extremely grateful I haven't had to make that decision because I'm not sure which I would choose. So, Lora and Kaylee are an example to me and have helped build my faith by just seeing how strong their faith is.

Well, I hope things are going well at home. Take care, and God bless.

Elder Hiatt