November 4

Dear Family, We had a great baptism this week for Ti Whenua and JJ Erickson. They were Baptised and confirmed by their dad on thursday the 1st of september and Kelvin is scheduled to be baptised on the 15th. We did a lot of tracting this week. We met Emma and we are very excited to teach her. We had actually tracted into her a few months ago but she was busy and said to come back some other time. This time must have been the charm because she seemed to have a desire to learn about the plan of salvation and other things about Jesus Christ. We are going to teach her this week! The rest of things have been going a bit slow but I still think we can get another baptism aside from Kelvin before the end of the year. We taught Rachel the Plan of Salvation this last week too which went amazing. She is very receptive to the gospel. We have also set a goal to activate her before the end of the year because she is already a member. She told us that we answered questions that she didn't even know she had. We had a great experience while we were at Volleyball. Since the branch did the youth trip this year, there was nobody who showed up except for the 2 men from Afghanistan. Zakir hasn't been able to read much more about the book of Mormon but while I was sitting on the chairs, Reza came up to me and asked what we did all the time. I told his about our schedule and the plan of salvation. Fortunately I had some pictures that I was able to put out and I went through the plan of salvation with him. it caused him to ask questions about why there are so many churches in the world. I was able to share the restoration and Joseph smith with him which made him really quite interested. He said he wanted to look at the website and learn about it. we are really hoping that we can teach him. I hope you are all having a wonderful week! Love Elder Joshua Butts