October 7

Dear Family, It has been a very good week full of great spiritual experiences. We are SO super excited. We got a baptismal date with Preston(Toni's son). He has been thinking about baptism for a while and now he is finally making the decision. He wants Bro Otto to baptize him on the 19th of October. We were also able to get Kelvin to start coming back to church. He wants us to start teaching him the lessons again and get a baptismal date at our appointment this week! I am so excited for Preston. It was amazing to see him and his mother start coming to church 3 months ago and now he has made the decision to be baptized. Miracles truly have not ceased and god has not ceased to be a god of miracles. We had another really cool experience with talking with everyone last weekend. We went to the community gardens as usual to do service and we met Deklin(a 14 year old boy who was there last week also). It is hard to find a way to slip gospel conversation in with the other people who help there because bro Otto has pretty much told everyone about it and they aren't really interested. We have never talked about it to deklin though. While helping I decided that we didn't need to wait for him to ask who we were so I asked what he was doing on Sunday. He said just sitting at home doing nothing. I asked why he didn't go to church and he explained that he does bible study classes during the week and occasionally attends the Anglican church on some Sundays. I started talking to him about some of the passages in the bible and then started getting into the book of Mormon (which he had never heard about). I asked what he would think if god called another prophet right now like Moses. He said that it's possible and that he wants to follow the bible as closely as he can. We then invited him to church but the problem is that we didn't talk to his parents yet so we told him to see if it was OK with them and that we would love to explain more. It was so amazing how Heavenly Father was able to give us that teaching opportunity. I am very grateful for the work in this area. Have a great week everyone! Love Elder Butts