BAPTISM #4

Dear Family!

Hip Hip Hurray!!!! Melissa Houston got baptized!!!! Her dad got to baptize her because he was just ordained a priest of the Aaronic priesthood a week earlier. He was going to have struggles pulling her back up in the water, so Elder Oloapu was there as well and helped lift her up. But it was so sweet to see him baptize her. Everything worked out the way it was supposed to. The original plan was to have them baptized the same day, but doing it this way was a much better plan. The Lord knows best! Sister Houston was so happy! She never thought the day would come that her family would join the church. But now look at them! They can now work on getting sealed to each other for time and all eternity next year!

So we had a pretty awesome lesson with a man the other day. It was a little disobedient for us to see him though the way we did. Normally, if there is a man home and there isn't a woman present, we should come back when there is or come back and bring a woman with us. But it was just him and his young son there. We thought that his wife was in a back room or something, but she wasn't even home. All three of us felt the spirit very strong that we were okay and that he was a good person. We know better now to ask if a woman is present at the beginning of a lesson rather than at the end... He felt the spirit though and would love to learn more about the church. We asked him if he would be baptized, and he didn't say no! He didn't exactly say yes either, but he did say that he would like to investigate more. I repented!

So the past 3 days have been brutal! It has been so cold!!!! I have never seen weather as cold as it has been. We were instructed by President Wirthlin to stay indoors. If we had a teaching apt set up, then that was okay to go outside. But if we didn't have something, then we were told to stay inside and study, watch the church movies we have, and prepare for future lessons. We are so sick of our apartment! We did have lots of fun keeping ourselves active though. We made sure to make our week busy busy busy so just in case it gets too cold to go outside again, we could still work.

We found a new opportunity to do service here! We go to a warehouse where they pack food to deliver to food pantries through out the area. We make packages full of food to give to kids who don't have meals over the weekend. We get to go every Tuesday. It has been fun!

I love you guys! I hope you have a warm week! The church is true!

Love Sister Keller