Continually Guided

Things are going very well in Ridgecrest! We are continually being led and guided by the hand of the Lord. The elect of God are being led to us, as well as us being led to them. This week we met Roy and Janet, two nonmembers from Lancaster. Janet had actually been taking the lessons from missionaries in Lancaster, and had a baptismal date. Shortly before her baptism however, she and her brother Roy were ruthlessly kicked out of the place they were staying and had to come back home to Ridgecrest. To make matters worse, when they came back to their house in Ridgecrest, they discovered it had been broken into, and been completely ransacked. They were forced to stay in a hotel, because they had nowhere else to go. A member who was a friend of theirs in Lancaster came to our church on Sunday and told us about Roy and Janet and their struggle for a place to live. We did some service for them to clean out their destroyed home, let their bishop know about their situation, and then began teaching them. Things have gone extremely well with them since then. Roy, who had never heard of the church before, started taking the lessons as well. Since we met them, they have come to church, prayed with us, and have been reading the Book of Mormon. They have both said that they want to be baptized. Roy even said "I was raised Jehovah's Witness, and I felt like my entire life I only had pieces of the puzzle of life's mysteries, instead of the whole thing. It's so amazing, the things you have been teaching us have been literally filling the missing pieces of the puzzle." I am so excited for them and can't wait to see what happens with them. I testify from the bottom of my heart that we do have the missing pieces of the puzzle. The fullness of the gospel of Jesus Christ has been restored to the Earth in its entirety. All of the beautiful truths of God's plan for us have been revealed to us. God lives, as does His Son, Jesus the Christ. They are tirelessly working and fighting for our happiness. How blessed we all are to know the things we know, and to have the things we have. I love you all and hope you are having a great holiday season!