February 22 Letter

Dear Family and Friends,

LUCAS GOT BAPTIZED ON SATURDAY!!!!! We were so excited! Lucas's daughter, the mother of his daughter and his mom were all able to come. His daughter and her mom have been members for almost two years and the mom is the relief society president in their ward. Lucas's mom is not a member, but she came Saturday for the baptism and Sunday for the confirmation. It was awesome.
We got a new ward mission leader again yesterday. This will be the third that I have been with in this area. There aren't many people who want the calling, I guess. It's sad because that's probably the most important ward calling next to the bishop. Wow. Are we really that hard to work with? ;) We're excited about the new one, Hermano Barrionuevo, because he's a big goof ball and has an amazing testimony of the church. He gave an awesome talk on the Holy Ghost at Lucas's baptism. We're also super close to his family. We're excited! We'll see what we can do together this transfer.
Karen is wanting to get baptized more and more every day. She sometimes drives me crazy just because well...she's 11. But she knows the church is true and she wants so much to get baptized in the same way Christ was baptized. In water by someone who has the authority to do it. Why do we have the authority? Well, because Joseph Smith was given the authority by original apostles of Christ who received the authority directly from Christ therefore having permission to give it to one who was WORTHY to receive that authority and PERMISSION to begin the organization of Christ's church. Isn't that a comforting thought? All the other church's leaders are chosen by vote and education. Ours are chosen by God. What an amazing blessing we've been given. I love our Heavenly Father. He's so cool. C:
I had a lot more to write, but for some reason I can't think of any of it so I'm going to close this. I love you all, I hope you have an amazing week! Chau for now!

All my love,
Hermana Shumway