To all who have been
curious about our mission choir here are some recordings of it! Sorry the
quality isn't the greatest. We definitely don't have the greatest equipment
but you can at least get a taste of it. We sang on the streets of Nellie Gail
in front of the super Christmas Lights house that always ends up on you tube.
We also went with
Foothill this Wednesday. It was great to get Elder G into a few
investigator lessons because he is a brand new missionary VISA waiting for
Brazil. We taught J a powerful lesson with he and Elder M helped out with getting her to commit to a baptismal interview. At the end of
the Lesson she asked "Don't you just feel this positive energy! Does
everyone here feel that?" in her middle eastern accent. It was hilarious
and we pointed out AGAIN that what she was feeling was the holy ghost.
Yesterday at Church we got President Lutz to come down after many scheduling
conflicts and she passed her interview. The interview was during 2nd hour of
church and right when she came out we kinda jumped on her and made her set a
date so we could announce the baptism 3rd hour. :) She was happy with it
though! SO WE ARE HAVING ANOTHER BAPTISM ON CHRISTMAS EVE! WOOOoooooo! This one is going to be so cool
like the last one!
We were also
able to help a complete stranger pray to God for the first time in their life
with us during a first lesson during the exchange. The investigator, had each of us pray a number of times then after talking about if
there is a God and what his nature is we had her pray. She at first was ok
with it but when she went to do it she said she just felt so wrong and
evil because she didn't even believe he was there. We explained straight up
that that was Satan trying to stop her. We convinced her to at least
try it and see what happened. She tried really hard and finally eeked out a
prayer. Afterward she threw up her arms and said "I feel great! It is
all gone! Now I just feel good!" Really cool experience.
Well last but not
least Reggie got baptized on Saturday! It was an amazing baptism. We had
old missionaries drive down from Salt Lake to be there and over 100 people
showed up! When everyone showed up 5 minutes before hand and walked in all at
once he was just in tears at the support he was getting. The
talks given were amazing, one of which was a member whose life had
actually been saved by his wife's advice once and the other speaker
the person who introduced their son to the church. The spirit was
strong!
Well Merry
Christmas Everyone! Mele Kalikimaka as we say in the Irvine Misison!
--Elder Gemperline
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