Kanabure and Tereaua

Starting off this email with a highlight:

Baptism. Kanabure and Tereaua. A couple who we were referred to by Kanabure's mother, Nei Titeebwa. They get baptized, awesome. Kanabure had to go twice because the prayer was wrong the first time. Anyway, after the baptism they share their testimonies. Tereaua shares hers: she explains that it had been a while since she had prayed and now she knows it is true because she had done it and to her had seen that it worked. She was in tears and it was very powerful. Kanabure then goes up and shares his testimony- he tells us he was a bad person, so bad he had to get baptized twice (as a joke, hopefully) and talked a bit about being born again. Way great, spirit was way strong.

Then the following day was Fast and Testimony meeting because last week we had District Conference. Titeebwa gets up and bears her testimony on the Temple. She told us before that in 2011 (I think) she went to the Temple right after her work was ending with Moroni High School (the church school here) and she wouldn’t have a job. So while she was at the temple, she asked for help, and when she returned, she got a job. Then she went last year to the Temple and prayed for her kids because they weren't members. And now, lo and behold, they are currently some of the coolest people ever that got baptized. So yeah, the Temple should be a priority in our lives for sure.

Lastly, a bit about repentance. Alma 33:11 “And thou didst hear me because of mine afflictions and my sincerity; and it is because of thy Son that thou hast been thus merciful unto me, therefore I will cry unto thee in all mine afflictions, for in thee is my joy; for thou hast turned thy judgments away from me, because of thy Son.”

Love you all and miss you all

Elder Farner