Life just gets better and better

Well I must say that life has been good to me these last few months.

I have some extremely good news to share. Patricia is getting baptized!! She decided to get baptized during Thanksgiving, and she is receiving the last discussion today. She is so solid. It has been so exciting to see her grow in the gospel and see the experiences that she is having. She understands the whole plan of salvation. For example, she is already so excited about the temple from work for the dead and temple marriage to having a place to worship away from the world.

The branch loves her. That is one thing that my branch is good at is making people feel welcome.
She decided to take the discussions with the missionaries alone. She wants to have no other influences because the decision to get baptized is her own and of no one else. I have to wait outside the door, while they teach her. She does not let them get a way with any vague explanations that are not scripturally backed. Last night they had the 3rd discussion on the plan of salvation. She asked a several questions that they did not know how to answer. Then after explaining many different things to her, they decided not to read a bunch of scriptures on the subject because of the time. She told them that she was not interested in their explanations unless they are accompanied by scriptures. After a question and answer period that was supposed to be a discussion, she gave them a lesson on how to teach more effectively. She told them to give a short overview/objectives of the discussion, so that the investigators would know where the discussion was headed and understand why they were talking about certain principles. Also she told them to ask open-ended questions to the investigators to find out what they know and understand. Then she told them that their principal purpose in teaching investigators was to teach true principles from the scriptures then their resolve concerns. Later after the discussion she asked me why they did not teach missionaries how to teach. Well, I thought that they did. However, she really likes her missionaries, and they provide a comfortable/spiritual atmosphere in the discussions.

Now she is a little missionary. She has already spoke to several people here, and is preparing a little crusade in Brazil with her friends and family over the holidays. She now feels the pull to help her family learn about the church. They are supportive of her decision, but she wants them to know what she now knows.

Next time I write, she'll be a member!! It is so exciting!!