Dear family and friends,

Hasn't been a terribly exciting week, except that our investigator Liz finally got permission from her husband to get baptized!! :D 

Liz is awesome, sister Mathews found her and has been teaching her for 5 months now.  She has been an amazing miracle and was super prepared for the gospel and I am so thankful I have been able to be apart of teaching her. For the past couple months she has been telling us that she would talk to her husband about getting baptized, because she really wanted to be, but something would always happen or something would get in the way.  So we realized that there was something else holding her back from talking to him, so we prayed a lot.  We had been planning on teaching her about fasting, but in our personal studies we were both led by the spirit to study faith in Jesus Christ for her.  Sister Mathews was also inspired in our companion study to ask her the baptismal questions. 

Her house was crazy as usual with her 2 little girls running around and I thought that it was going to be impossible to teach her and feel the spirit, but the Lord really wants her to be baptized.  Despite the craziness, the spirit was SO strong, and we were able to figure out what was holding her back and resolved the issue.  Sister Mathews was totally inspired too!  I was so surprised when out of the blue Sister Mathews told Liz that she should talk to her husband and invite him to the baptism (something we hadn't even talked about before).  Later that night we got a text from Liz that said that her husband gave her permission and that he was coming to the baptism!  It was so amazing!!  The Lord really loves Liz and wants her to be close to Him, and I know that her love and faith in the Savior helped her overcome her fears, I really look up to her and admire her for her faith and dedication. 

I know that this church is true and I know that the Lord loves each of his children. I am so thankful that I was able to see His hand more fully in the work this week. I love you all!!

-love, sister Hunting