hey hey mom
so its been one of the coolest weeks
of my mission. hands down. So Elder Christensen and I have really been working
our tails off here in farragut. We strive for exact obedience and don’t settle
for less than our best efforts here. Jeanne and Mackenzies baptism was the
first baptism here in a solid year. The ward is on fire now. We have been in
almost every home helping them with their missionary work with the "Ask in
Faith" program, and now just about every family in the ward has specific
goals to help their friends come to a knowledge of the truthfulness of the
gospel. We honestly have more work here than we have time and for the first
time we probably are going to soon need another set of missionaries in the
Farragut ward.
Miracles are happening here and soon
there is going to be a huge increase of member work and excitement, from one
catalyst in particular. So Brother S (I've mentioned that we are teaching
his parents) has really been working with us with his parents. We have grown a
relationship with them and consider them to be family as well as they consider
us to be their sons or grandsons. However I don’t know if I've ever really
relayed the miracle behind this relationship. So, roughly 20 years ago when
brother S joined the church his parents disowned him. In fact I don’t know
if they spoke to him for like a solid year. Also they turned the whole family
against them. He told us he couldn’t go to any family gathering with out someone
pulling him aside and trying to save him. long story short, it was a very
bad situation. Now their relationship is pretty good and his parents are close
with brother s and his family. And now it is the perfect storm. Brother
s’s son Trey is on a mission in Australia, and that has really opened them
up. And every missionary in the past that has gone through the area wasn’t
right, but everything worked out and brother s felt that he should have us
teach his parents. And well they have done like a complete 180 and yesterday we
went over to their house and talked a bit bore testimony brought the spirit and
I'll tell you there was not a dry eye in the room, and then brother s invited his parents to be baptized. it was a truly incredible experience. There
is nothing happier than missionary work. The whole ward pretty much knows the
situation with the s's and once they see the miracle of the s's being
baptized the missionary excitement is going to explode.
oh also borther s and his dad
took us to the last UT basketball game and we sat 6th row at half court and got
to see them with their last regular season game! (president gave us special
permission to go) it was so sick! haha weird though everyone got a good stare
at the mormons! haha but anyways i love the mission and wouldn’t rather be
anywhere else.
until next week!
Love ya! ELDER BAKKER
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