July 22, 2013

Hey everyone,

How are things going back home?  Things are going pretty well here.  It has been a pretty good week.  On Saturday, Anaís was baptized!!!  It was a really great experience.  There were a lot of people from the branch there to help support her on her special day.  Her parents are both members of the church who were baptized over 10 years ago.  However, they stopped going to church quite a few years ago, but they decided that they wanted to make the step to return.  So we have been working with them a lot, and the mom is now active with her daughter.  Unfortunately, the father still hasn't t

aken the necessary steps to return back to church, but hopefully he will make the decision to fully support his family in these desires soon.

This week we also had a lot of people in sacrament meeting.  It is great to see that the branch is starting to grow as more people are coming to church, and people are also beginning to come more regularly.  Hopefully in the next few weeks we will be able to see even more growth here.

Not all that much is new besides that.  We continue to work hard, focusing mostly on trying to strengthen the branch and the members here so that the branch can be a real refuge from the world for the members and the people who will come to know the church now and in the future.

I hope that all is going really well back home, and I will talk to you all soon.  Good luck with everything that you do!!!

Elder Stollenwerk