It's a Team Effort

Hello everyone! Just another wonderful week in the blessed land of Rock Hill. 

The highlight of this week was M being baptized! Even though she is not technically "our" investigator, she is definitely our friend, and we were so happy to see her take this step in her life! 

But first we did some other things, like district meeting. It was great! We focused on using Book of Mormon scriptures and simplifying our teaching. The next day President Sheppard came to interview M for baptism, so afterward we had a little meeting with him about how our areas were all doing. We were happy to report ours was doing great and we have such good support from our members! 

We did some biking this week, as usual. It's getting warm again, so either we are in for an early summer or a late freeze. If the weather stays like this, though, that would be perfectly fine with me! 

Saturday was M's baptism!!!! It was a beautiful service. All the missionaries in the district managed to attend, which was pretty exciting. She was taught in Yorkmfor a while and came to the Book of Mormon class in Rock Hill so we all knew and loved her very well. Her testimony of the Book of Mormon is amazing. She even finished reading it a few weeks before her baptism and has already started the Doctrine and Covenants while re-reading the Book of Mormon. We are all pretty impressed. It makes me want to take my scripture study a little more seriously!

Her baptism also ties in with a challenge that our mission is doing right now. You may remember when we read through the Book of Mormon together, highlighting the Christlike attributes from Preach My Gospel. Now we are doing the same thing, focusing on the Doctrine of Christ, which is faith, repentance, baptism, the gift of the Holy Ghost, and enduring to the end. It's amazing how central the Doctrine of Christ is to the Book of Mormon. On every page it talks about having faith in Christ, making covenants, repenting, and continuing our righteous decisions to the end. I'm excited to keep up with this study! It's really central to everything we do as missionaries and as members of the church. It's the one path back to our Heavenly Father, and we are so excited to have M take this step! 

That's it for this week. Transfers are coming up so stay tuned!

Love,

Sister Reay