April 28, 2014

G'day!

Thanks so much as always for the e-mail! Glad everything is well at home. In response to your question, the girl did get baptized the Saturday before Easter, I guess I had forgotten to tell you. Anyway, this past week was a fantastic week for us with many miracles and blessings. Yesterday at church we had all the part member families we are currently teaching attend which was great! They all had a wonderful experience and were fellowshipped really well by the ward. Probably the biggest blessing though was that one of the part-member families met with Bishop after Sacrament and from that Bishop was able to discuss with them about getting married and they decided they would be married through the church! So that was wonderful because that is a big step obviously and it also makes it possible for the non-member mom to be baptized when that point comes. But everyone at church loved it and all are excited to come again on Sunday. Also at church, there was a less-active lady who hadn't been to church for 8 years and just decided to rock up to church this Sunday. She had a great experience though and asked us to come around and visit her and her family! So that was a pretty cool miracle as well. Another good thing that happened this past week was that we were able to set another date for an investigator to be baptized on the 24th of May. It's one of the few Burmese people we are still teaching, but they are one of the most sincere investigators we have taught. It's a whole family but the one with a date at the moment is the mom. She has already been baptized but she is praying to find out if she should be baptized again. We had a great lesson with them on the Restoration and she said everything made sense and she felt that it was true. So we included her in a fast we were doing on Friday so we hope as we see her this week that she will have felt an answer come. Also this past week was Anzac day in Australia and so we had the opportunity to get up early and go to one of the local dawn services. If you aren't familiar with Anzac day it is just like Labor/Memorial Day where they remember all the soldiers in WW1 and WW2 and other wars (ANZAC=Australia New Zealand Army Corps). I'll put in a picture from that. Other than that everything is continuing to go well. There are still some referrals coming through from members relating from the 40-Day Fast which is really good to see. Well I'm nearly out of time at the library so thanks for all that you do for me and I hope you have a great week this week! I love you heaps and I'll talk to you again soon!

Love,

Elder Hopkins

Elder Suan and Elder Hopkins with Australian military personnel on ANZAC Day.