"Hey Everyone! Staten Island is doing great. I can feel the flood of baptismal water making its way around the corner. We're going to invite the Jewish couple to baptism this week after a lesson on prayer and baptism. Richard told us last night that he's trying to build up to prayer. He's so sincere about everything. It's one thing to convert from one Christian denomination to another, but its entirely different converting from something like Judiasm or Islam. ""Elder Godwin and ZL Elder Hales (we were on exchanges) visited another one of our investigators on Friday, Virginia McDaniel. She teaches at a catholic school preparing kids for "baptism and confirmation", I think its called Catechism . She's very sincere and really wants to know the truth. She is such a sweet lady. She told the Elders of a sweet experience she had a few years ago when she was in the hospital. She had just had surgery and for a few days she was having a very difficult time sleeping. Then a nurse named Mike (kinda funny) told her he would wait with her until she could fall asleep. He said that he would have to step just outside the room and take care of few things but he promised to leave his foot just inside the door so that she could know that he was there. She was able to get two great nights of sleep. The hospital then transfered her to another room on another floor and she asked the hospital to send the nurse Mike down to her room. The hospital told her that there was no nurse named Mike at that hospital. Virginia is adamant that Mike was an Angel sent from God. She believes so much of what we tell her and wants to believe everything, but she's having a difficulty with a couple things. She keeps watching the Restoration DVD and can't get over Joseph Smith seeing the face of Heavenly Father and not dying, as the Bible teaches. We'll have to give her a lesson on transfiguration. Moses saw God face to face and I know that Christ, Peter, James, and John were all transfigured on the Mount of Transfiguration. Pray for us. Hopefully we can invite her to be baptized soon as well. We'll have to get her Hollands Conference talk on Angels."
"Our teaching pool has grown so much this past week. We've been tracting, train fearlessing, looking up former investigators, looking up other potential investigators, delivering media items, the whole sha-bang-a-bang. We've found a new family on the train and we're going to start teaching Abraham, Earnest, and Shanik this week. We've got a full, busy week ahead of us. I'm excited"
~Elder Maughan
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