It's been a great week here in Wales! We were able to teach so many lessons this past week! We got a phone call from the zone leaders this morning saying how impressed they were and they asked if we had any tips for them to be achieving similar numbers. We taught 23 lessons last week. the mission standard (goal) is 15-20 a week. We had 20 investigator lessons alone and then 3 with members. It's been crazy but Sister Smith gets really excited as we have more and more lessons.
Tracey was baptised! It was kind of funny. I tell everyone I have a bit of a fear of spiders... We went to the chapel to fill the font and I started to move the pipe that we use to plug the drain... this HUGE spider pops out the bottom of this pipe and is sitting there (I would say it looked angry). It was about the size of the bottom of a coffee mug. It was huge. Naturally I screamed. Both of stood there for a minute not knowing exactly how to respond. the water was coming into the font so we tried to wash it down the drain (we eventually succeeded), but the water also helped us realize it was a momma spider and there were a bunch of little baby spiders that started washing out from the bottom of the pipe...I hate spiders. But the baptism itself went really well. Tracey's husband who hasn't shown any interest in the church surprised her by walking in right before the service to be there for her. He sped straight from work to support her. It was really great to see him there. Then Tracey was confirmed yesterday. the blessing was really beautiful and the spirit was very strong. Tracey's daughter attended the baptism Saturday and decided that she wanted to start coming to church with her mom sometimes, so she was there yesterday too. She's 11. So, many wonderful things are happening. We had left all of Saturday night for the baptism and hadn't made other plans because we didn't know how long it would take. we were out of the chapel by 7:30PM. Sister Smith I could just tell was having kind of a frustrating day and I remember praying, as we drove away from the chapel, to have some miracle happen that would make things better. Sister Smith is a lot like me in you can ask if anything is wrong and she'll say no when somethings clearly is bothering her. Very much closed off like me at times. So I let her be and we started talking to people on the street where we talk to the Chinese most. There weren't many out, but then we saw this young man named David (Chinese). Sister Smith talked to him in Chinese and she kind of looked at me funny after a minute and said, "He has time right now that we can teach him." I guess she wasn't really expecting that response. So we went back to his accommodation and taught him the first lesson that we teach to the Chinese. He told us he just bought a Bible a few weeks ago to learn more about God and things pertaining to religion. I know that he was an answer to a prayer.
We have another baptism this weekend hopefully! Jack says he is ready and we believe him to be ready as well! So we will see!
Well that is mostly all I have to talk about this week!
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