Brother Keith Is Getting Baptized!!!

Hey everybody!!

Guess what!! Brother Keith is getting baptized on Saturday!!! I'm so excited!!

Brother Keith has been taught for about a year now (he was actually found by one of my MTC companions). He is 65 years old, had to overcome his 3 pack a day smoking habit, had to have an elevated interview with our Mission President, and has been taught on and off. He has now been smoke-free for a month and a half, has been to church for more than 2 months, and knows this church is true. Before his interview with President, he said that he didn't feel ready for baptism. He wanted to get baptized, but he felt like he still needed to do some stuff first. We both knew he was ready for baptism. He has made so many changes to his life and has progressed so much. We did want him to feel comfortable with baptism before getting baptized, so we just told him to tell everything he was worried about to President and he would help him. We figured President would interview him and say that he needed to do some stuff for a few more months and then he would interview him again.... but they came out of their interview on Tuesday and surprised both of us when President asked him when he was going to get baptized and Brother Keith said "Saturday." :D We couldn't stop smiling oh my goodness we were so happy. 😁

Everyone ever born has the potential to go to the Celestial Kingdom. The question is whether or not they're willing to work to get there.

Brother Keith is awesome.

This week I had my first exchange with one of the sister companionships in this zone. We are over three companionships here and I love them all. :) I went on exchanges with Sister Mortensen in Bluefield (VA/WV) and it was awesome. We found an investigator and put her on date (I love putting people on date) and ran through a serious rain storm to our car. We were soaked.😅

And we are preparing Sister Quisenberry for baptism as well on the 2nd of July. She is awesome too. :) We had a lesson about the temple and she was so excited to go!! 😄 I love the temple. And in that lesson, we ended up bringing her next door neighbor who is less active and he was able to bear his testimony on the temple and I think it was super awesome for him. Everyone needs to go! The temple is awesome! All you people in Utah should go this week. :)

We found a couple new investigators this week as well. One of them is a religion minor in college and believes in all of them.... :P He's hilarious and asks really good questions. Good thing the Spirit's the one that teaches!

We're also currently teaching someone who's agnostic. I've taught agnostic people before, but in my experience they haven't kept their commitments or really desired to learn much, let alone come to church. But this one comes to church every week and has read the whole Book of Mormon.... but she's still agnostic. She's mostly learning just to learn. Not to gain anything spiritual. But we think there's a part of her (however small) that wants this because... she keeps her commitments and still comes to church. We have been studying and praying so hard to know how to help her and the last couple lessons have been good for her I think. We're helping her to apply what she learns so she can learn-to-become instead of just learn-to-learn. 

Something that this experience has really helped me with is understand how the prophets teach in the Book of Mormon. I understand what they've taught, but now I need to look at why they chose to teach a certain topic to certain people and how they teach it so I can learn from their example. I'm looking at the Book of Mormon in a totally different way and I am learning a lot. And it's funny because sometimes I'll see that someone in the Book of Mormon does something that Preach My Gospel tells us to do. Go figure. ;P

I love this gospel. I know it is the gospel of Jesus Christ and it is the perfect way for us to have eternal joy, eternal knowledge, eternal growth, and eternal families; starting with that first step of Faith. I KNOW that faith allows miracles to happen. I KNOW that God is our Father in Heaven and He watches over and helps His children. When we have faith to act on that knowledge, He lifts us.

I hope you all had a great Father's Day!!!!!

Sister Miller

After we ran through the rain storm!!

Sister Mortensen, Sister Flandro, Sister Farnsworth, and me!