SOOOO GOOD!!!
FAMILY!!!
HUGH GOT BAPTIZED ON SATURDAY AND CONFIRMED ON SUNDAY!!!! This week has been such a whirlwind but the best week EVER. Thursday night we were teaching Hugh and asked him if he had decided on a day to be baptized. He said he wanted to give it two weeks and then see if he was still feeling that it was all true. We discussed if he knew that the Church was true and he said yes. So then we discussed why was he denying himself the Atonement in his life by waiting and he said how about Saturday!? I am learning that putting together a baptism is stressful! But it was sooo amazing and Hugh is an official member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. Hugh's story: Hugh lived in San Diego until he was eight years old and moved around a lot until he ended up in Arizona for quite a while. He got into some things that he shouldn't have and knew he needed to get out of Phoenix. His really close Jewish friend told him that when he goes back to San Diego, that he should find the Mormons because they would be really good influences on him and would welcome him right in. The two of them searched online to find a church for him to go to and narrowed it down to four different LDS churches. One day he was running around San Diego and he remembered that his best friends from when he was little are Mormon! He ran up to their door, knocked on it, and asked to come to church with them on Sunday. Next thing you know, Hugh is at church in a suit running into us. We thought he was a member already! We haven't stopped teaching him yet and now he has the fullness of the Gospel. He sure put the Gospel through the ringer but he knows without a doubt that it is true. He bore a very powerful testimony on Sunday as well. One of our ward members, Austin Kim, got his mission call to the PROVO UTAH mission and he spoke on Sunday as well. His story is a miracle as well. He went from not believing God exists to grabbing all the Book of Mormons at the institute and knocking on all the doors of the UCSD campus. He is already such a good missionary so I cannot wait to see what miracles he sees in UTAH. Too funny. Well now for what is Sister Haggerty's new ailment... NOTHING. :) My head is slowly improving with the hands of President Jespersen. He showed me the x-rays last week and somehow my neck is completely straight when it is supposed to curve. He said that with how bad it is that I had to have had some sort of injury that could have happened from any time period since I was a child! He said it is fixable but that I would probably have to get it fixed after the mission because it is pretty intensive stuff. BUT that he would keep me good enough to get my missionary work done for another year! More good news eh!? It is just sooo good to know what is going on and to have a cure. Testimony again that fasting works. Theme of my life Helaman 5:12... When we have a firm foundation in Jesus Christ, that when (not if) the storms come, it will have NO power to overthrow us. The storms are not going to end until I die that is clear enough. But when I have patience and remember Jesus Christ, it will have no power of me. Sadly, I still am not patient so I am afraid that means more lessons of learning. I am determined to be patient in the next trial to show God that I do not need another trial to test my patience. :) I think that will work! This gospel is true and I am forever changed by this chance to serve our God for 18 months. Keep the faith. All of this is worth every second of knowing what God's plan is for me. The church is true so keep spreading the word!
Love,
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