Shaun Langsy is getting baptized on Friday!!! He is so amazing! Everything we teach him he grasps, if it is something hard he just sighs and says, "I know that I want the blessings of the Lord more, and I want to do what He wants me to do." He admits that it will be hard but he realizes and wants the life style change. Oh my, he is just so good. Every time Sister Duke and I get a bit frustrated we start counting our blessings and Shaun is always one of them. I am just so excited for him to make this step and to receive all the blessings that the Lord has in store for him. The baptism is on Friday and our mission president, President Dalton, is going to perform it. When we asked Shaun who he would like, that is who he choose because one time President Dalton had gone up to the barn (where Shaun works) before church to say hi to some people and asked if he wanted to come to church. He didn't really want to go but when the boss says, "Ya, take Shaun he is off right now anyway," you go to church. So he went and that is how he was introduced to President Dalton. Pres. is so excited and honored that Shaun wanted him to baptize him. It is going to be so beautiful down at Manele! Oh I love it here so much.
Cool service we do: well the other day a guy called and asked if we could come help him with some stuff so of course we said yes... we ended up moving rusting dirt bikes. At first thought- no problem they have wheels we will just roll them... Wheels don't roll when they have been rusted into place. Sister Duke and I literally had to lift them up, push them, and shove them to where this guy wanted them. Dirt bikes are not light either but we did it and laughed after the fact.
We went and did our Prayer Approach (knocking on doors and offering to pray with individuals and families). Not many people allowed us to pray with them but this one older guy asked us to come in and so we prayed with him and his son, and grand daughter. The son (father of the girl) was really attentive and we talked about the importance of following Jesus Christ and asked if he would be baptized and he told us that him and his wife were looking for a church right then to be apart of and they were thinking of getting baptized into another church but he wanted to know what we had to say. We asked if we could come back or if we could share a little bit with him at that time. He said that he had time right then. So- we taught him about the Restoration of the gospel of Jesus Christ and then we invited him to be baptized - pause - "Can you guys come and teach my family?" We told him we could and he said he would think on baptism but he felt the Spirit and I could see that things were making sense. All the confusion that he had found and felt in other churches he had tried out were all beginning to make sense to him. Well, we went to his house Friday, and his wife answered the door and flat out told us that she wasn't interested at the door step. We asked if her husband was home - he was busy. She said we could try another time. Wow, I just about cried after that. Why was she being so hard when it was her own husband who had told us to come by. Well, Sister Duke and I will try again and hopefully it will work out.
Right now our main focus is with strengthening our less active members, recent converts, and part member families. We are seeing some success with some of the families and hopefully if we can get all of the less active families back in church we would have a whole ward.
Funny moment: we were walking home one evening and a man is walking in our direction. We get a bit closer and he says, "Do you sing in harmony?" odd question - he has us sing ah for him and then tells us that we have fairly big chests - um I felt a little violated- then proceeds to tell us that a girdle could increase our diaphragm strength or something like that by 3x. Then he asks if we are Mormon - yep - "Oh my people killed your prophet Joseph Smith." - me "Oh, well I hope that if you had the chance again that you wouldn't do that again because he was a prophet of God." - I dont think he heard me - He loves poetry and we started talking about that and we are going to go share a poem of mine with him on Wednesday, (Forever At His Feet). This could be one of the funniest lessons ever but heck might as well give it a shot.
I'm sorry I cant write more. I love you all! Keep the faith. Help the missionaries in your area.
Love Always,
Sister Cassidy Jean Lang
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