Christmas and New Years Weeks

Hey guys. How are you all doing on my challenge? I hope it is going good. Anyways, just to let you know whats going on for The Work in East Phoenix:

Zach's baptism on Saturday didn't go through. The bum (I say that kidding around. Zach reminds me of myself before I left, so it's all good) didn't show up for church, so we we're going to push his baptism back until this saturday. But the bum didn't show up again!!! His mom came, but he slept in!! haha. So we're going to push his baptism back to the 22nd, just to see if he is really committed.

Also an investigator that we've had for a while, Patricia, made some radical changes the week after Christmas. It totally took Elder Shupe and I back, because she just wanted to get baptized. But just to let you know, shes a little out there, but thats ok. She had to have her baptismal interview with P. Ells (President Ellsworthe). She was really sad because P Ells wanted her to wait another couple of weeks and then meet with her again. We taught her then next day, and resolved a lot of her questions. One of the reasons why we needed to wait was becuase we needed her to get a stronger testimony about the restoration. When we talked about it the next day, it was like a light bulb just turned on! It was cool to see. And then she asked us if the only way for a baptism to count for anything was if it was done in our church. We told her yes, and then shes like "okay, I'll call and cancel my appointment to be baptised with the baptists then". We're like, yeah!!!

Also the Sunday after Christmas we had a miracle happen. After sacrament meeting, Bishop walked up to me and introduced me to a woman named Denise. He said, "Elder Denison, this is Denise, and she would like to be baptized." I'm sure the look on my face was priceless, because we we're having a hard day because none of our other investigators came to church. Anyways, we've taught her three times already, and she has a date, is already looking forward to going to the temple, and she was already living most of the commandments! At least the hard ones. Shes not living the law of tithing yet! ha ha. Yeah but when we asked her to follow all the commandments she says "Yeah! I've already been doing all this so I guess I've been a Mormon all my life without knowing it!!" Shes one of those really spunky crazy fun black ladies. It is awesome.

Anyways, there's the report for the last week. I hope you guys are doing great!! and I love you so much!!!

Elder Denison