Dear Peeps,

What!?!? we got our eternal investigator Dianne to commit to a baptismal date on August 31st. Dianne is a crazy lady who lives out in the forest and is often barefoot and has little "critters" such as ducks, chickens, geese, and bunnies. She has the smallest house in the world that she likes to call her castle, and she has no running water, one hour of electricity a day, and no toilet. Dianne likes to live off the grid for what she calls "health purposes". She is decently familiar with the Bible and will only listen to the Book of Mormon on CD. She says her eyes are too bad for her to read the print in the scriptures and yet she does well when she reads the Ensign Magazine we gave her. Dianne is far too complicated of a person to even attempt at explaining in writing. Regardless, she has attended church 9 times, and I am the one who extended the invitation. Another cool thing about her baptism, because she hates cars, she will possibly be baptized in Lake Michigan instead of in Marquette because the drive is too far for her. If we can get this baptism approved by President Cutler then this will be one epic baptism.

This past week I had what is called first six week training, it’s for people like me who are still in their first six weeks of being out in the field. We drove Wednesday night to Oshkosh and stayed with the Hmong speaking Elders. But no one bothered to tell them that we were staying with them, so when we arrived at 10pm. we had to wake them up. The funny thing about their apartment was that the door frame to their bathroom was only 6 feet tall. Well, I’m 6'3'' and the door frame came up to my eyes. It was really funny and I have a picture of it. The training meeting was on Thursday and it was great because I got to see all my MTC friends. We swapped stories and had a great time.

Do you remember last week when I told you the story about the three teenage girls and the cupcake??? Well, we had a lesson with one of them on Sunday 7/21/13. Her name is Josie and she had been reading the Book of Mormon that we gave her, so we went over what she had read and answered her questions. Then we answered her other questions that weren’t Book of Mormon related. It was a really great lesson and we made another appointment for this coming Wednesday. Elder Thompson and I strongly feel that she has genuine interest in the gospel and we think she too might be ready for baptism on the 31st of August. We are going to extend the invitation for her to be baptized this coming Wednesday.

That’s it for this week everyone, I love you, and hope all is well for you.

Elder Luymes

 

Helping around Diane's "Castle" with her critters.

Really glad I don't live here!

Celebratory treat we made ourselves because Diane
committed to be baptized.