May 1 2017,"2 (Baptisms )is better than 1 year!!

This past week was a rollercoaster of a week in the best way possible! Ga'Daisha (9) was really looking forward to her baptism on Saturday! As we were working with her, Diamond (12)(Ga'Daisha's older sister) decided last minute that she wanted to be baptized this Saturday as well with Ga'Daisha! April 29th was a very good day! Ga'Daisha Collins and Diamond Chambers are now baptized members of the church!  The ward was so good and supportive at the baptism and those little girls are going to be such a nice addition to primary and Young Womens! Liz (their returning member mother) was so proud of her girls and now wants her other two kids to work towards baptism too! I am so grateful for the opportunity to work with those special girls, they are such lights in my life!

The rest of the week was amazing as well! We went tracting around a headquarter referral and the second door we knock on, this lady opens the door, tells us she is not doing good, and pulls us inside! We were able to talk her through a really hard time and afterwards she told us that we were sent by God to help her! I love being used by God in those situations, I know that the comfort and peace that they feel when we are there is not us at all, but rather the Spirit of the message of the Gospel we bring!

We also had another amazing lesson with Venetia! We taught her the Plan of Salvation and she loved how "pleasant" it was compared to how other churches teach it! She watched General Conference and noticed how different it was, that everyone seemed so "peaceful and happy" and how badly she wants that for herself! Her testimony is growing so much and she wants so badly to be baptized when she knows for herself that this is what she needs to do! In the beginning of the lesson she asked us "why are yall so happy and at peace all the time? I see this happiness and I want that." It was amazing how the Plan of Salvation, or in other words the Plan of Happiness, was the answer. It is truly because we know where we come from and where we go after we die, why we are here now, and who we truly are! 

Shereka is doing really well too! She read the BOM where it talks about Joseph Smith seeing the angel and she told us she cried in the car when she read that! She mentioned that she has been given a BOM before but never took it seriously and she cried to herself thinking "this was here the entire time. It was right here!" She is seriously such a miracle and her life is already changing for the better since the first lesson we had with her!

We had to drop a lot of people this past week but it is cool to see that the Lord is providing for us with a few solid people to teach as we trust that He is going to lead us to those who are prepared and willing to act!

Love yall so much! I am loving the South! I am grateful to be a missionary for the Lord, He is so real and He answers my prayers!

Sister Baker