October 28

Dear Family, It has been such a great week! President Lindsay came up and we took him out to do some visits with us on Wednesday. I don't think it could have gone better. He loves the work we are doing and we taught two incredible lessons(one of which wasn't even remotely planned). We went to visit Rachel, who we found out is a member but doesn't know really anything about the church. She ended up being busy so we set up an appointment to visit tomorrow. We didn't really know who we might be able to catch home at that time but I remembered Ardi, an Indonesian man whom we tracted into and gave a book of mormon to two weeks ago. When we visited with president Lindsay, he was miraculously home and invited us in with a friendly smile. He is a christian and goes to the baptist church but is open to new ideas and was curious about the Book of Mormon when we told him about it last time. We showed him some Scriptures in the bible which talk about the book of mormon such as Ezekial 37, and John 10. He had some questions about baptism and we helped him understand that the gospel has been restored by Joseph smith. This week we are going to teach him about the Apostasy. Our mission president was quite pleased with the visit. We next had an appointment with a woman named Jen who we had also recently tracted into and given a book of mormon. She was so inviting to us and President Lindsay. After some conversation we taught the lesson of the restoration with the movie. It was so amazing the spirit we were able to feel and I could tell that she was thinking. She lit up after the movie and told us that Now she understood what the book of mormon is. It is not our mormon bible, but it is additional scripture. Later in the week she told us she had been reading and was looking forward to our visit this coming week! We have also had many other great experiences including exterminating some pests from a woman's yard to teaching Jayjay and Ti Whenua. They are going to be baptised this Thursday. It is simply so amazing that Heavenly father has seen fit so bless us with so many of these baptisms. We were able to teach them and Kelvin(who will be baptised in the next two weeks) about the baptismal interview questions which they answered the questions with flying colors. I feel so blessed. They also did the primary program in this branch yesterday. I must say, it was quite a comical event. I always love watching the children sing and talk about how the church has blessed their lives. There are going to be many more blessings seen in karratha in the near future. Have a great week! Love Elder Joshua Butts