From Mom 2/4
Dear Family,
It happened! It really happened!! Petra was baptized this evening and it was a wonderful experience. We honestly didn’t know if it was going to happen until the very last day.
We visited her every day this week and Friday she told us she didn’t think she would have made it without our daily visits. When we went to her home to meet her to drive to the church for the baptism, she said Satan had really been working on her today and she was really nervous but she was ready to go. Here daughter who lives a couple hours away from here had come on Friday to be here for her Mom’s baptism. Last night we had a long talk with her about the church. Today Peta’s best friend was at her house when we got there and had lots of questions. At the baptism she talked to several members of the ward asking questions about the church and seems very interested. She is from Poland originally and has had a rough life. She is Catholic but is open to new ideas. She was very impressed with the baptism and the friendliness of the people.
After she had been baptized, Petra just kept saying, “I’m clean. I’m clean. I’m just like a newborn baby.” She said she had such a warm feeling and was just overwhelmed with the number of people who attended the baptism. Everyone brought food so we had a nice meal afterwards and everyone seemed to enjoy just staying and visiting.
We had asked Petra if she would like to bear her testimony and she said she would. But she had prepared a wonderful talk to introduce herself and to tell her experience of coming into the church. She has a strong testimony. She told of being brought up in East Germany where religion was not even talked about. Even 5 or 6 months ago she didn’t even believe in God but it was about then that she came to church the first time with her American boyfriend. She enjoyed the feeling she had in Sacrament meeting but didn’t care for Sunday School and went home feeling like she didn’t have any idea what was being talked about. It was 3 months later that she started feeling something for the church and that was about when we first met her. We feel it was a real privilege and blessing to be able to teach her and we also feel like it was the efforts put forth by the whole ward that helped her come into the church. People have been so friendly. Petra is such a friendly, loving person herself so it isn’t difficult to get acquainted with her and to love her.
We’ll send another E-mail with pictures. The younger girl in black is her daughter and the blond is her best friend and the gray are your parents!
Love ya lots,
Mom
It happened! It really happened!! Petra was baptized this evening and it was a wonderful experience. We honestly didn’t know if it was going to happen until the very last day.
We visited her every day this week and Friday she told us she didn’t think she would have made it without our daily visits. When we went to her home to meet her to drive to the church for the baptism, she said Satan had really been working on her today and she was really nervous but she was ready to go. Here daughter who lives a couple hours away from here had come on Friday to be here for her Mom’s baptism. Last night we had a long talk with her about the church. Today Peta’s best friend was at her house when we got there and had lots of questions. At the baptism she talked to several members of the ward asking questions about the church and seems very interested. She is from Poland originally and has had a rough life. She is Catholic but is open to new ideas. She was very impressed with the baptism and the friendliness of the people.
After she had been baptized, Petra just kept saying, “I’m clean. I’m clean. I’m just like a newborn baby.” She said she had such a warm feeling and was just overwhelmed with the number of people who attended the baptism. Everyone brought food so we had a nice meal afterwards and everyone seemed to enjoy just staying and visiting.
We had asked Petra if she would like to bear her testimony and she said she would. But she had prepared a wonderful talk to introduce herself and to tell her experience of coming into the church. She has a strong testimony. She told of being brought up in East Germany where religion was not even talked about. Even 5 or 6 months ago she didn’t even believe in God but it was about then that she came to church the first time with her American boyfriend. She enjoyed the feeling she had in Sacrament meeting but didn’t care for Sunday School and went home feeling like she didn’t have any idea what was being talked about. It was 3 months later that she started feeling something for the church and that was about when we first met her. We feel it was a real privilege and blessing to be able to teach her and we also feel like it was the efforts put forth by the whole ward that helped her come into the church. People have been so friendly. Petra is such a friendly, loving person herself so it isn’t difficult to get acquainted with her and to love her.
We’ll send another E-mail with pictures. The younger girl in black is her daughter and the blond is her best friend and the gray are your parents!
Love ya lots,
Mom
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