Baptising HEH-soos

Mum,

That's so great to hear the story about Jon. Guess what, he's gone assistant to the mission president. Who would have ever thought our Jon would be an assistant! Haha! Well transfers were yesterday night and I'm staying in Leeds 4!!! Elder Jensen is leaving to Chesterfield (no idea) and I'm getting Elder Stevenson. He's been out 6 months and I've never met him but his trainer is our new zone leader so its pretty exciting! Haha. So that has been on my mind a lot lately but I will share some of the many miracles we were blessed with this week. To answer your question Tamara has been rescheduled for next weekend which is super exciting! We also have a woman named Janet that is working for a date in February so that's equally exciting. We actually found out that Eugene has just moved into another area! Its devastating but it will all work out. Probably the biggest miracle, let down, amazingness of the week happened on Thursday night. So just before our tea appointment we stopped by a member named Erika from Portugal. We started talking to her and were planning on reading some of El Livro de Mormon with her when she said she has a friend that is interested in the gospel. We had a member coming out with us that night so we magically found another member so we could go on splits for the night. The member is 14 and speaks fluent Portuguese which is a godsend because the guy is from Angola and doesn't speak a word of English. So I went with the member and when we get back Elder Jensen is translating to this black man who is listening really intently. Elder Jensen is holding a baptismal calendar and when he catches my eye, shows me the name on the calendar. I give him a puzzled look and then go to introduce myself to this golden investigator. He stands up to shake my hand and I introduce myself as Elder Rowley. He then smiles and says, "I'm Jesus". Yup, we're baptising Jesus. He is absolutely amazing and is getting baptised on the 18th of February. Doesn't speak a word of English but it just makes it funner to try and speak Portuguese with him. But here comes the let down. On Sunday night we were talking with Erika and found out that he doesn't live in our area! Its so devastating but Leeds 2 will baptise him and it is still amazing. The upside is that there is a whole family from Brazil in that ward and the 14 year old is actually from that ward. It was just a crazy amazing miracle that we met him and were able to teach him, even if it was for so little. We were really blessed last week as well to meet so many amazing people and taught some great lessons as well. We are progressing people towards baptism which is equally exciting!! I'm excited to see what Elder Stevenson is like and find all the amazing things that he can bring to this area! I'm stoked! Love you mum, gotta run!
Elder Rowley