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Hello hello!

So i am sorry that i don't have a ton of time to write today unfortunately but just to let you know everything is going great and the investigators who will be baptized on the 28th are doing great!  This week i was able to do an exchange with Elder Petersen and it was just like old times and such a relief to be with him again!  He is so awesome and the whole experience was spiritual!  We talked about some of the simplest parts of the gospel in detail and honestly when you study chapters of the Book of Mormon like 2 Nephi 2, Alma 40-43, moroni 7, Mosiah 3 things like that you see how incredible the Gospel is and how lucky we are to have it in our lives!  Thats why we need to share it!  So yeah being with him was wonderful and we were also able to see Arlette the one who came to church last week and check out what happened!

So we go to her house and right off the bat we said well you know what we want to talk about!  We said tell us what happened in your prayer.  She told us that she got an answer and that she didn't feel ready but she knew what she needed to do.  That was it.  That was all that she said to us unfortunately.  So then me and Petersen went old school Bruxelles on her and started teaching about baptism.  It was so GREAT!  There was a strong spirit and everything.  So then this is the cool part! I started testifying to her.  We said Arlette what do you want to leave behind when you leave this earth? What is your purpose?  She said that she wanted to leave this life and be remembered as a witness of God.  Elder Petersen said well you know how we do that?  Lets look her in the scriptures at why Christ was baptized.  We read how it says that he was baptized to testify to the Father that he would do his will.  We said Arlette that is your next step and i testified again and said "Arlette everything in your life has brought you to this moment.  Everything! Your child baptism, your study of scriptures, your meeting with the missionaries, but if you are now baptized by the proper authority which we claim to have you will reach a whole new spiritual plane." She said je vous coupe toute suite, which is i'm gonna stop you right there.  That was literally word for word my answer  to my prayer.  I know what i need to do and i know the next step is baptism.  I have to work things out personnally but i know that i need to do it.  So she accepted to be baptized the 28th of July as well!  How cool!  Honestly this is the result of a lot of fasting and praying and i am so happy for her and the decision she has made!  Keep her in her prayers honestly!  

That was our experience for this week!  There were some other great things that happened but that was the coolest!  This is of course the end of my mission and i am going to work so so so hard all the way til the end!  I love you all!

Peace, Elder Hoopes