Dear Family and Friends!
This
week was absolutely amazing!! Our loving Heavenly Father has been
granting unto us enormous blessings here in Plantation, in the District,
Zone, and Mission! Once again we have been able to have experiences
that have converted many unto Christ and helped me become more converted
unto Christ!
This
week Elder Rondo and I were extremely busy running around doing
baptismal interviews for the Sisters in our District. We had a bunch of
meetings as well which left us with little time to spend in our area. To
put on top of it we had many people who we made specific plans to
baptize Sunday and were looking at a big weekend for the area of
Plantation. But with not a lot of time in our own area we put our trust
in God and knew that He would make all work out. Then Sunday came and
when we went to round up all our investigators for church they were all
there and ready! At church we were extremely blessed by God to have
eleven investigators there to taste of the Atonement of Jesus Christ.
Then we began to prepare for the stake baptism that we were having and
had four Children of God all dressed in white ready to be baptized. One
of the baptisms was a lady named Elenis who is one hundred percent blind
and exercised a lot of faith in Christ to enter into the waters of
baptism. Her family was suppose to be baptized with her but her son and
grand-daughter got scared Saturday night and decided to wait till they
felt "ready". But we let the Spirit take care of that one! As I was able
to baptize Elenis the rest of her family was front and center and you
could see it in their faces that they felt the Spirit. So after everyone
had been baptized Elder Smoot asked me to pull the plug and I told him
to wait, cause we are gonna have two more baptisms! So we went to
Elenis' family, recognized the Spirit we felt, stood at the baptismal
font and read Alma 7:15, and they both accepted to be baptized right
there! We hurried and gave them baptismal clothing they put them on and
they were baptized right there! It was amazing to see God bless us for
being diligent, and most importantly the Spirit work within them to get
them into the waters of baptism "this day" as Alma says!
So the work here in Plantation and
the mission is moving along! Time for "Miracle March"!! We were actually
able to see a miracle from a recent convert this week! So one of our
recent converts that is extremely converted signed up on ldssingles.org
immediately following her confirmation. This week we got a call from
her and she said, "I'm movin to Tampa!" Apparently she met some guy on ldssingles.org
and he got her a job in Tampa and payed for her plane ticket to come
live out there. Super crazy! Yesterday I spoke with her and the guy is a
very faithful member of the Church and said they are planning on
getting married in the temple in a year! I cannot believe it! It is
crazy but super cool at the same time.
Well I love ya'll and know this is
absolutely God's work. I know as we do all that we can for the Kingdom
of God that God will provide the rest!
With Love,
Elder Pond
