CONGRATS to the sweetest little nine year old ever! Jessica Maly was baptised this weekend! 🙂 It was a miracle. We were able to find, teach, and help her get baptized in about 5 weeks! The Lord truly blessed us. 🙂 Her mom even came, and so did her sister! We don’t think the sister has ever been to church before, and her mom hasn’t come for many years. We hope this will help reactive the mom, and that Jessers can truly lead the way for her older sister! 🙂
She knows that her Heavenly Father loves her! She said, “I’m excited to give Him a hug when I die. But I’m kind of nervous, because He’s really powerful! And if he squeezes me too hard, I might blow up!” Haha 😉 She’s so fun! Then when we told her a circle of men will be giving her a blessing, she was really confused. “Well, what if they tap me on the head the whole time??!”
Anyways…everything in this teaching process was cute. Her grandpa is about 84 years old and he baptised her! He totally fell in the font when he stepped in though. It was so sad! He might have sprained his wrist and got a cut. She forgot to plug her nose, so when she came out, she had really BIG eyes. 🙂
The reason there is a picture with a “Wow!” with our fingers is because she did not understand the “Word of Wisdom” commandment at all. She kept getting it confused with reading the scriptures. So we told her to make that face (it spells WOW) and list 6 things that she can and can’t eat to stay healthy. 😉 The District Leader laughed so hard when she got interviewed!!! 😉

ANOTHER MIRACLE!!! Brighid called us right after the baptism and told us that the Priesthood blessing she received from the men in our ward healed her. She said that before this blessing, the doctor scanned her knees and she would need a knee replacement in about one year. She just went back and got an MRI and said that calcium had been deposited in her knees and that a knee replacement wouldn’t be necessary for at least another 2-6 years!!!! She said, “I immediately thought of the blessing. I just know that it has to be from those men!” We aren’t too shocked because we know that God can do amazing things to help people get closer to baptism. We pray she will recognize the reason why God healed her! 🙂 🙂 🙂

Spiritual thought: We went out to go “finding” on a particular street and our GPS lost it’s signal! :S So I told Sis. King to just keep moving forward and eventually we would pick up a satellite signal. It came true…the GPS did start to work! 🙂 Later in the day, we were tracting and Sis. King said, “I don’t know where to go! I just can’t tell where the spirit wants to lead me…” So I said, “do you remember when the GPS started working again if we just kept moving? :0] Well…I promise if we show the Lord that we are working, he’ll send us to a door that needs to be knocked!” But we can’t just sit here and wait for a sign.” Just like Alma 37:38-40. We are promised that the Lord will lead the way for us if we read the scriptures and they will become our compass! Isn’t that a neat and reassuring promise? I love it! 🙂

BEING a missionary. I am addicted to it!!! Sister King says that I wake up in the middle of the night and invite people to be baptized in my sleep. Then I will get on my knees and pray for my investigators. I’m completelly asleep when I’m doing so!! Hahaha But I guess I’m eating, sleeping, breathing missionary work! 🙂 Which is exactly what I need to be doing. 😉 I’ve been so blessed out here. Sheesh.

I admire you all. Thank you for your encouraging and hopeful words! May God bless you all! 🙂

LOVE YOU SO MUCH!
Sister Tobias 🙂