These past two weeks have been pretty dissapointing. People that really seemed interested in hearing our message decided to not continue or acted like they didn't feel the spirit when I know they did. But I wasn't discouraged, because I know the Lord doesn't work miracles until after a trial of faith.
Something I have really learned this week is to be optimistic even when everything falls through, so that is what I did. I was super happy and worked really hard. It was great. I love my companion and I really, really prayed last night to be able to stay in the same sector with my companion, because the transfer is next week and I don't want to live. I have so much unfinished business.
This weekend we fasted with my favorite couple Toimato and Kulani. It was really good. Toimatos brother is a new convert in our ward and he decided to share the gospel with his family. Kulani is amazing. She is having a baby in three months and so we fasted for her to not have any problems. They want to get baptized in June but they haven't chosen a date yet because they have to get married.
Kulani has really felt the spirit in coming to church and has read the Book of Mormon and felt of its truth. She has so much integrity because she told her family of strict protestants that she wanted to be baptized and her dad wasn't too happy, but she stuck firm to her decision because of her faith. It was so incredible to see that no matter what trials she faces with her family she is willing to follow the Lord and the things she has felt by the spirit.
Also, yesterday was so so amazing because we had Elvina come to church. She is the lady that complains a lot and is super bitter but I really love her. Normally we can't get her to come because she is super scarred everyone will judge her, but she came! I think she was sick of us coming and bugging her and calling her, and she felt the spirit. In relief society we talked about the talk from Elder Uchdorf inviting people to join the church and sharing that this church is for imperfect people. She was touched and after we asked her how she felt and she said it felt really good to come. She feels like it is the true church. She wants to come next week too.
Oh yah and this week I got to be in a film. I pretended like I was teaching Tahitian children how to do math, and then I walked on the beach with the other missionaries and pretended to say goodbye to the Tahitian people. It was kind of fun but not really because the whole time I was just super stressed out worrying about my sector and my amis. I thought school was stressful but when you are playing with peoples happiness and salvation that is another story.
Yesterday we finished also a huge round of concerts we have been doing. The spirit was so strong when we sang "The spirit of God". Our mission president said we need to remember that moment for the rest of our lives.
Well I love you and I challenge you all to do missionary work this week. This is the Lords work and He will help you and inspire your thoughts to know the people you need to visit or just say a kind word.
Love Soeur Kimball
Sunday, May 4, 2014
April 21, 2014 - The Real Tahiti
This week was good but things are getting slow again, but it is ok because it just means I am going to work even harder this week with my companion. Sometimes here in Tahiti with all the music, the heat, the humidity, the flowers and the fruit it feels so easy to get sucked into the lazy life. We are surrounded by it and so sometimes it is hard to work, work, work, but I love it here. I can't stop thinking of how grateful I am that the Lord sent me here in Tahiti. Whatever you guys imagine of Tahiti it is not what it is like. I guess it is actually kind of ghetto but I don't realize it anymore because I am just used to it.
This week I have not been bold enough. I don't know what happened but suddenly everything started scaring me this week. It got to the point where I was scared to talk during lessons and scared to talk to people on the street. Sometimes I have days where everything seems to get harder. I guess it is just Satan working on me but he is never going to win, but seriously no one likes admiting it but we are all stopped by fear sometimes. It is better now. I know that with lots and lots of prayers and fasting and studying the scriptures the Lord can strengthen all of our weaknessess.
We ate dinner at an American's house and it is seriously on the top of the mountain and we could see half of Tahiti. All of our investigators are doing well but I feel like they have come to the moment where they really need to decide. It is all or nothing.
One afternoon three weeks ago we found a street behind the chapel and we followed it and there were a whole bunch of old scary looking apartements, and a lot of teenagers. Not a good mix, but we started talking to these teenage girls Moerani and Karina and they were open to take the lessons, so this week we continued to visit them and they are super shy. They don't like to answer questions and they don't like to share experiences, so it is hard to help them because we don't really know them. It was amazing because we found a cousin of Moerani who had already taken the lessons in the Marquies who invited us to her house to talk with her. She told us about Moerani and how her mom just barely died unexpectedly and right now Moerani has started to drink. She is 15 years old and so that just breaks my heart. I know that we were lead to talk to her cousin so that we would be able to better help Moerani. Because there is no way Moerani wouldhave told us those things her self. Heavenly Father Loves His children. That is the only thing I have to say. Now this week we will be better able to help Moerani understand that she can see her mom again and drinking will never help her situation. It is seriously sad how many kids are wasting their lives here drinking...same for parents. Many people smoke and drink their lives away here and it destroys their family and the future of their kids.
Sorry for the lecture but decisions determine destiny, and if I can just be an instrument in the Lords hand for helping one girl understand who she is so she can make the right decisions now I would be grateful. I love you all and I am so grateful for parents who made good decisions in their youth so that I could be where I am today.
Love Soeur Kimball
April 7, 2014 - General conference
Wow wasn't conference so great? I warned my companion that after conference was over I would be completely depressed and I was. Holy cow, I was just so impressed with how inspired the messages were. I can't wait for the conference talks to come out in the Ensign so I can read them. I really loved all the talks that invited us to be stronger and more faithful members. I feel like it was something so needed to be adressed. I loved what Elder Holland said about how one day or another we will all be forced to defend our faith. We cannot be passive members of the church, it is not enough in this time of age. We live in such a great time.
This week we saw miracles, so I don't know if I told you about Maina. She is about 22 years old and lives with her boyfriend in these apartement complexes. She just so happens to live next door to members in our ward and one day she was having a really hard time with her family. The member next door, Elizabeth, told Maina about a book that could help her to feel the peace even in trials. She then gave her a Book of Mormon and invited her to read it, so of course we started teaching the lessons with Maina and she is so so ready.
This week we had the opportunity to start the lessons also with her boyfriend and he is way more skeptical and isn't as believing but I know his heart will be softened. We talked about the Plan of Salvation and scheduled another appointment, but that is not all. Maina told us she feels really at peace with the Book of Mormon and she has already read up to 2 Nephi 25 in just a few weeks. She has prayed and felt for herself the testimony of the power of the Book of Mormon and wants to be baptized. Please pray for her boyfriend so his heart can be softened so he can wan't the same things. I know things will continue only to get better. The Lord truly prepares people.
We found another semi-member couple to teach in our ward thanks to a reference. I have never seen two people who want to change so badly. Moroni is an inactive member that left the church at 16. He got into drug dealing and trafficing. Can I just tell you guys how I am going to promise now to never ever let drugs destroy me or my family like it has destroyed his life. I know him and his girlfriend can change but they are going to have to be healed by the Savior. It is only through the Atonement of Jesus Christ that they are going to be able to progress and leave the other things behind. I am so grateful for the hope that the Atonement brings in our lives and the lives of others.
Somehow I got roped into being in a film for the church. Not really sure how. We have to act out scenes from the missionaries in Tahiti in the early 1900s. Don't know how that is going to go but we have to wear costumes and everything.
And just know that I have to go but I know this Church is true. No one and no force can stop the stone from rolling to fill the earth. I love you with everything.
Soeur Kimball
This week we saw miracles, so I don't know if I told you about Maina. She is about 22 years old and lives with her boyfriend in these apartement complexes. She just so happens to live next door to members in our ward and one day she was having a really hard time with her family. The member next door, Elizabeth, told Maina about a book that could help her to feel the peace even in trials. She then gave her a Book of Mormon and invited her to read it, so of course we started teaching the lessons with Maina and she is so so ready.
This week we had the opportunity to start the lessons also with her boyfriend and he is way more skeptical and isn't as believing but I know his heart will be softened. We talked about the Plan of Salvation and scheduled another appointment, but that is not all. Maina told us she feels really at peace with the Book of Mormon and she has already read up to 2 Nephi 25 in just a few weeks. She has prayed and felt for herself the testimony of the power of the Book of Mormon and wants to be baptized. Please pray for her boyfriend so his heart can be softened so he can wan't the same things. I know things will continue only to get better. The Lord truly prepares people.
We found another semi-member couple to teach in our ward thanks to a reference. I have never seen two people who want to change so badly. Moroni is an inactive member that left the church at 16. He got into drug dealing and trafficing. Can I just tell you guys how I am going to promise now to never ever let drugs destroy me or my family like it has destroyed his life. I know him and his girlfriend can change but they are going to have to be healed by the Savior. It is only through the Atonement of Jesus Christ that they are going to be able to progress and leave the other things behind. I am so grateful for the hope that the Atonement brings in our lives and the lives of others.
Somehow I got roped into being in a film for the church. Not really sure how. We have to act out scenes from the missionaries in Tahiti in the early 1900s. Don't know how that is going to go but we have to wear costumes and everything.
And just know that I have to go but I know this Church is true. No one and no force can stop the stone from rolling to fill the earth. I love you with everything.
Soeur Kimball
Monday, April 28, 2014
March 31, 2014 - Tahitian Prayer - Concert
I have probably reached the happiest point on my mission. Is it still really hard and stressful? Oh yes, but I couldn't be more happy. Things are going great. I never realized what a difference it makes to have the support of the members, but seriously, our members are amazing here. I saw so many miracles this week so here we go.
Yesterday we had a huge concert with all the missionaries in Tahiti in our stake center with all of our stake and the amis (investigators). It was awesome. We have a really great program where we sing a bunch of hymns and there is a projection and missionaries bear testimony. Since I am from Faaa I was asked to give the closing prayer. I honestly was so so terrified because I knew I had to say it in Tahitian from the moment I was asked. Sometimes when the Americans speak Tahitian that really shocks people and touches especially the amis because they don't expect it. You immediately earn respect here if you speak it, and so here I was sitting and I knew I had to give a really good prayer in Tahitian to close the program and I was so so scared because I knew what an affect it could have if I did it correctly. I was praying so hard I wouldn't totally ruin everything. I gave the prayer in Tahitian and I am not really sure what happened during it but all I know is I was able to say things smoothly and correctly and just like a Tahitian with sincerity. The thing you have to understand is that here people give their Tahitian prayers about 100 mph and so if you want to sound like them you have to say it like that too. After I finished everybody got really noisy and freaked out because they didn't expect it. I can't tell you how many people asked me for my picture afterwards. It was so funny, but seriously it touches people so so much when you speak Tahitian here. I was just grateful I could be a tool in the hands of the Lord to share his spirit for people who prefer Tahiain over French.
Next thing this week. My sector is so so awesome. Yes it is very dirty and full of people drinking and smoking but there are so, so many people to teach. I love it and my companion is super optimistic and funny. I laugh so much every day because we do some really funny things, and because members and investigators here and just everyone in general have visions all the time and I find a lot of them funny.
This week we continued to teach Poema who is getting baptized in 2 weeks. She has now given up cigarettes for one week so she can be baptized. She is so amazing and so willing to sacrifice anything to be baptized. It makes me so happy to so the change in their family. Her husband was inactive but is now coming back to the church. We were doing a lesson about the plan of salvation and at the end he looked at us and asked with all sincerity if he could still make it back to live with God again. Even after leaving the church for a time. I told the story of the prodigal son and how when he came back the father accepted him with loving arms. He was so relieved to know that he was still on track to receive eternal life. I really love them so much.
Which leads me to my thought for today. I read a talk today that really changed my perspective of things especially the Atonement. This week I reevaluated my relationship with Jesus Christ. I realized that I have a lot of faith in Him and His mercy to make up the difference for our sins after all we can do.
I realized that I am not sure sometimes if I have the faith that He can save me from myself personally and my imperfections. For everyone in Tahiti I am positive this is the case, but it is just so hard for me sometimes to see myself and my potential when I am constantly faced with all of my errors and weaknesses. I don't always follow the spirit and sometimes I make stupid mistakes that could have prevented me from helping this work move forth. And the thing is I think a lot of us think this way. We are constantly missing the blessings of the fortifying and enabling power of the Atonement because we don't think we are worthy. We just don't measure up, and how sad is that. All that He asks us is our best. I loved an example I heard this week. Sometimes we just wait and wait and keep striving for perfection but it is never going to happen. It is not like sick people wait to get better so that they can be able to take the medicine, and it is just like that for the Atonement.
I am so grateful for my mission because I have grown so much more close to my Savior and in doing so I have so much more love for myself. I know I am good enough, because He thinks I am good enough. I don't know how many times I have struggled with hating myself in my life because I thought I haven't reached the bar or the level of goodness that I thought I should have reached, and now I realize that was never the point. I still have all of my weaknesses and faults but it is ok, because I know He is willing to work with me to fix all of those things. Little by little. Oh, how He is merciful. If there is anything we should learn in life it is how to use the Atonement in our lives. Every day. I love the Lord and I know this is His church and kingdom.
I couldn't be more humbled to be His servant.
Love Soeur Kimball
Yesterday we had a huge concert with all the missionaries in Tahiti in our stake center with all of our stake and the amis (investigators). It was awesome. We have a really great program where we sing a bunch of hymns and there is a projection and missionaries bear testimony. Since I am from Faaa I was asked to give the closing prayer. I honestly was so so terrified because I knew I had to say it in Tahitian from the moment I was asked. Sometimes when the Americans speak Tahitian that really shocks people and touches especially the amis because they don't expect it. You immediately earn respect here if you speak it, and so here I was sitting and I knew I had to give a really good prayer in Tahitian to close the program and I was so so scared because I knew what an affect it could have if I did it correctly. I was praying so hard I wouldn't totally ruin everything. I gave the prayer in Tahitian and I am not really sure what happened during it but all I know is I was able to say things smoothly and correctly and just like a Tahitian with sincerity. The thing you have to understand is that here people give their Tahitian prayers about 100 mph and so if you want to sound like them you have to say it like that too. After I finished everybody got really noisy and freaked out because they didn't expect it. I can't tell you how many people asked me for my picture afterwards. It was so funny, but seriously it touches people so so much when you speak Tahitian here. I was just grateful I could be a tool in the hands of the Lord to share his spirit for people who prefer Tahiain over French.
Next thing this week. My sector is so so awesome. Yes it is very dirty and full of people drinking and smoking but there are so, so many people to teach. I love it and my companion is super optimistic and funny. I laugh so much every day because we do some really funny things, and because members and investigators here and just everyone in general have visions all the time and I find a lot of them funny.
This week we continued to teach Poema who is getting baptized in 2 weeks. She has now given up cigarettes for one week so she can be baptized. She is so amazing and so willing to sacrifice anything to be baptized. It makes me so happy to so the change in their family. Her husband was inactive but is now coming back to the church. We were doing a lesson about the plan of salvation and at the end he looked at us and asked with all sincerity if he could still make it back to live with God again. Even after leaving the church for a time. I told the story of the prodigal son and how when he came back the father accepted him with loving arms. He was so relieved to know that he was still on track to receive eternal life. I really love them so much.
Which leads me to my thought for today. I read a talk today that really changed my perspective of things especially the Atonement. This week I reevaluated my relationship with Jesus Christ. I realized that I have a lot of faith in Him and His mercy to make up the difference for our sins after all we can do.
I realized that I am not sure sometimes if I have the faith that He can save me from myself personally and my imperfections. For everyone in Tahiti I am positive this is the case, but it is just so hard for me sometimes to see myself and my potential when I am constantly faced with all of my errors and weaknesses. I don't always follow the spirit and sometimes I make stupid mistakes that could have prevented me from helping this work move forth. And the thing is I think a lot of us think this way. We are constantly missing the blessings of the fortifying and enabling power of the Atonement because we don't think we are worthy. We just don't measure up, and how sad is that. All that He asks us is our best. I loved an example I heard this week. Sometimes we just wait and wait and keep striving for perfection but it is never going to happen. It is not like sick people wait to get better so that they can be able to take the medicine, and it is just like that for the Atonement.
I am so grateful for my mission because I have grown so much more close to my Savior and in doing so I have so much more love for myself. I know I am good enough, because He thinks I am good enough. I don't know how many times I have struggled with hating myself in my life because I thought I haven't reached the bar or the level of goodness that I thought I should have reached, and now I realize that was never the point. I still have all of my weaknesses and faults but it is ok, because I know He is willing to work with me to fix all of those things. Little by little. Oh, how He is merciful. If there is anything we should learn in life it is how to use the Atonement in our lives. Every day. I love the Lord and I know this is His church and kingdom.
I couldn't be more humbled to be His servant.
Love Soeur Kimball
March 18, 2014 - 1st Transfer, Tipaurui
Hey, so yes it is true. I got transferred. I was so sad, but happy at the same time. It is my first transfer. For six months I served in one valley of Tahiti. Everything I know about Tahiti is what I saw in my little neighborhood which is not that much. I said my goodbyes and I cried and everything and people gave me baskets and seashell necklaces and now I am serving with my new Tahitian companion Soeur Sommers in Tipaurui.
Oh boy is it different. I couldn't be more excited. Soeur Sommers has only been here four weeks so I will be training her for the next eight weeks. It will be my second time training and oh how can I tell you that training is a very humbling experience, especially when you are asked to train people that speak the language better than you and understand the Tahitian people better than you. I have already learned a lot.
Anyway, let me tell you about my new sector. It is really awesome because it is in the city which means there are so many more people to talk to. I absolutely love it. There are tons of apartement buildings which means more people to preach the gospel to. I got to the point in my old sector where I had talked with almost every single house and knew almost every single person by name so you can see how everything now is just so thrilling.
There is so much potential here and I think we are going to see a lot of miracles. The ward is super focused on missionary work and even now they have a plan to give away 170 books of Mormon. This morning for my first lesson in the sector we scheduled a baptism for next week for the wife of a member in our ward who had already had the lessons. I have already seen so many miracles and I am so excited to see the people in Tipaurui grow their faith in Christ by living his teachings.
I was super sad to leave my cute French companion but I know she will continue to do great things in Tuauru. I have really grown to love her.
So, I guess that is my life right now and I love it. This transfer I really want to be able to get better at understanding Tahitian, because I can speak it alright but understanding is a whole other ball game, especially when they are papis who speak really fast, really really slurred and really softly. I know the Lord will help me with my endeavor so that I might be able to continue to help others.
This transfer I really want to be able to enjoy every moment and just love the people. We had a conference where an area president talked to us and said that we need to be masters in teaching the doctrine of the Father and His nature, because it is only when others feel of His love for them, and understand truly their divine nature as children of God with a purpose in life, that they can change. I pray that I can be able to transmit that love that He has for His children. Truly our work here is just to remind people of who they really are so that they can embrace the fulness of blessings that this gospel has to offer.
I know Joseph Smith was a prophet of God and that Jesus Christ is at the head of this church. How blessed we are for what we have been given.
Soeur Kimball
Oh boy is it different. I couldn't be more excited. Soeur Sommers has only been here four weeks so I will be training her for the next eight weeks. It will be my second time training and oh how can I tell you that training is a very humbling experience, especially when you are asked to train people that speak the language better than you and understand the Tahitian people better than you. I have already learned a lot.
Anyway, let me tell you about my new sector. It is really awesome because it is in the city which means there are so many more people to talk to. I absolutely love it. There are tons of apartement buildings which means more people to preach the gospel to. I got to the point in my old sector where I had talked with almost every single house and knew almost every single person by name so you can see how everything now is just so thrilling.
There is so much potential here and I think we are going to see a lot of miracles. The ward is super focused on missionary work and even now they have a plan to give away 170 books of Mormon. This morning for my first lesson in the sector we scheduled a baptism for next week for the wife of a member in our ward who had already had the lessons. I have already seen so many miracles and I am so excited to see the people in Tipaurui grow their faith in Christ by living his teachings.
I was super sad to leave my cute French companion but I know she will continue to do great things in Tuauru. I have really grown to love her.
So, I guess that is my life right now and I love it. This transfer I really want to be able to get better at understanding Tahitian, because I can speak it alright but understanding is a whole other ball game, especially when they are papis who speak really fast, really really slurred and really softly. I know the Lord will help me with my endeavor so that I might be able to continue to help others.
This transfer I really want to be able to enjoy every moment and just love the people. We had a conference where an area president talked to us and said that we need to be masters in teaching the doctrine of the Father and His nature, because it is only when others feel of His love for them, and understand truly their divine nature as children of God with a purpose in life, that they can change. I pray that I can be able to transmit that love that He has for His children. Truly our work here is just to remind people of who they really are so that they can embrace the fulness of blessings that this gospel has to offer.
I know Joseph Smith was a prophet of God and that Jesus Christ is at the head of this church. How blessed we are for what we have been given.
Soeur Kimball
March 10, 2014 - Vaiarii
Ok you guys, so to understand this week you have to look at this photo. Lots of things happened this week but I want to just talk about this one person, Vaiarii Raihauti. I know in this photo he looks like a murderer and like he is angry but really he is a great kid and right now you are all going to hear the story of his conversion. He is the one next to me in the corner. I promise he isn't actually scary. It has been crazy.
The conversion of Vaiarii starts in December last year. I and my companion were in their yard to teach a lesson to his sister but we had never met him. I don't know what happened but for some reason he decided to come to the lesson and hear us with his brother and part of his family. I think I wrote about it in another email, anyway we taught a lesson about the Restoration and invited everyone to read the Book of Mormon to see if our message was true. The next week we dropped off a Book of Mormon. Out of all of his family it was really only him who cared. The rest didn't really feel like finding out but Vaiarii read the Book of Mormon and prayed sincerely like we asked him. At this point he was super super shy but we would just come and visit him anyway. We invited this brother in our ward who you see in the picture to come with us to the lessons and he started inviting Vaiarii to family home evening and started teaching him too. Vaiarii told us he prayed about Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon and had a really strong impression but he really had a hard describing it, so of course we continued the lessons with him for the next 2 months and he would come to church with us every single week or with Dan ( the man in the photo). He was still really shy and scared of us. I think just because we are two foreign girls but we finally got him to open up and he decided he wanted to be baptized. He didn't tell us everything because he was embarrassed but he really wants to go on a mission too. He is 19 years old and now is preparing to go to the temple in one year so he can go on a mission and serve the Lord.
I told him now we are going to use him and he will be the member fellow-shipper for all of our amis. haha. He thinks I am psycho... the poor kid. Two days ago he bore his testimony and it was so powerful. He shared his gratitude for the Lord for having showed him His church. He was so sincere.
I share this story for two reasons.
1. We taught all of his family and it was only him who believed and acted on his impressions, which shows us that even though the gospel is true not everyone is going to accept. It is just our duty to invite everyone so they can decide for themselves and understand the goodness of the gospel for themselves.
2. Member fellow-shippers are so so so important. Without Dan there I don't think Vaiarii would have been converted. The testimonies of members and their experiences really validate our teachings and relate to others.
I know the church is true and I am so happy that Vaiarii is so happy now. I am so happy to have been able to help the Lord in His work. He is so good.
The conversion of Vaiarii starts in December last year. I and my companion were in their yard to teach a lesson to his sister but we had never met him. I don't know what happened but for some reason he decided to come to the lesson and hear us with his brother and part of his family. I think I wrote about it in another email, anyway we taught a lesson about the Restoration and invited everyone to read the Book of Mormon to see if our message was true. The next week we dropped off a Book of Mormon. Out of all of his family it was really only him who cared. The rest didn't really feel like finding out but Vaiarii read the Book of Mormon and prayed sincerely like we asked him. At this point he was super super shy but we would just come and visit him anyway. We invited this brother in our ward who you see in the picture to come with us to the lessons and he started inviting Vaiarii to family home evening and started teaching him too. Vaiarii told us he prayed about Joseph Smith and the Book of Mormon and had a really strong impression but he really had a hard describing it, so of course we continued the lessons with him for the next 2 months and he would come to church with us every single week or with Dan ( the man in the photo). He was still really shy and scared of us. I think just because we are two foreign girls but we finally got him to open up and he decided he wanted to be baptized. He didn't tell us everything because he was embarrassed but he really wants to go on a mission too. He is 19 years old and now is preparing to go to the temple in one year so he can go on a mission and serve the Lord.
I told him now we are going to use him and he will be the member fellow-shipper for all of our amis. haha. He thinks I am psycho... the poor kid. Two days ago he bore his testimony and it was so powerful. He shared his gratitude for the Lord for having showed him His church. He was so sincere.
I share this story for two reasons.
1. We taught all of his family and it was only him who believed and acted on his impressions, which shows us that even though the gospel is true not everyone is going to accept. It is just our duty to invite everyone so they can decide for themselves and understand the goodness of the gospel for themselves.
2. Member fellow-shippers are so so so important. Without Dan there I don't think Vaiarii would have been converted. The testimonies of members and their experiences really validate our teachings and relate to others.
I know the church is true and I am so happy that Vaiarii is so happy now. I am so happy to have been able to help the Lord in His work. He is so good.
Tahiti February 24, 2014
This week was great. First of all we had the baptism of Tepiu and Tachyna the two girls with inactive parents. They were completely adorable. It was I and my companion who had to plan the baptism and do the talks and everything. I really was so so worried that everything wasn't going to turn out. It was kind of a last minute scramble and then I was so worried that nobody would come and there wouldn't be any support and the chapel would be empty. The good news is I was wrong. We had a great day. I guess you would expect that a baptism of a new convert would be an incredibly spiritual and amazing experience, and it totally was but just not in the way that you would expect it. As soon as the program started I just felt so peaceful. Many of the members came and they brought a ton of food too. I was so so relieved. I almost started crying, and I even sang a musical number with my favorite primary member in our ward. I don't know how many times I had prayed for everything to turn out alright and I would just like to tell all of you that the Lord answers prayers. The spirit filled the chapel and it was so evident that the Lord was so happy His two young daughters Tepiu and Tachyna entered the gate of baptism.
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