Safety for the Soul

We just had an amazing week, with the highlight being the baptism! Sister Deng, Sister Chen, jun jie (jay), and two of the sister's investigators were all baptized Saturday night!  The service was incredible and the ward was so supportive! After the baptism Sister Chen bore a powerful testimony of faith and how it has played a role in her conversion process. Her daughter was baptized about a year and a half ago and is a great member, Sister Chen supported her but never wanted to join because of the Buddhist traditions of her family.  But about a month and a half ago we went over to their house and she said something changed, she started to believe and began to pray.  Her testimony of the power of prayer is incredible and has had many wonderful experiences with it! We love her!

Sister Deng came to us last Monday with some questions brought up to her by a friend and became very nervous for the baptism.  She wasn't very sure about it and pretty stressed.  We talked through the problems and she realized the problems weren't actually problems.  In the lesson my thoughts kept referring back to a talk by Elder Ronald A. Rasband a couple conferences ago.  He talks about us needing to remember the powerful spiritual experiences we have had in the past, to build our testimony.  I bore my testimony and told her she knew this was true,she knew that God was there, Jesus Christ was her Savior, She just needed to remember why and the experiences that backed up her faith. The experiences that brought her to the decision of being baptized. She is sooo awesome and she was baptized and has a stronger testimony because of this!!

I love this Gospel and the role it plays in my life.  As I have seen it change other peoples lives, my faith has been strengthened.  My relationship with our Heavenly Father, and our Savior Jesus Christ has been strengthened through the experiences I have had out here. And I will always remember them! I love you all and am so grateful for all your love and support!

Love

Elder Henderson :)