Sister Jennifer Bradley, Indianapolis Indiana Mission : Life is good

Hello everyone!!! What a wonderful week!!! We started off the week by helping a Less Active (because of work) sister learn how to do family history. She was SOOO excited!!! She found out her husband who had passed away had not been sealed to his parents!! Woah, that's a pretty deal! I felt really honored to be able to be the person to teach this to her :) now I know why I learned all these things about family history BEFORE my mission :) I think the coolest part might be that she has a son who is less active and a grand-daughter who is a less active and she want to start encouraging both to be temple worthy and have a temple recommend! She is now helping us do missionary work that would be extremely hard for us!! :) So grateful for the Spirit of Elijah!

We had a lesson with a New Investigator named Marisa and it went really well! To preface, she invited us back initially without us having to even ask which is amazing and then during the lesson she was really listening to what we said. I know we are becoming better teachers too because we were able to read scriptures with her and focus EVERYTHING on the Book of Mormon. We are not lying when we say "if the book is true, then Joseph Smith was a Prophet, the Priesthood has been restored, and that Jesus Christ is literally at the head of our church." She agreed to read! Please pray that God will help her feel the Spirit confirm to her that the Book of Mormon is true!

Saturday was wonderful and SO busy! Just the way we like it :) We started off the day going to the temple to do Baptisms in the Temple with Recent Converts to the church. We were able to bring Derek and it was amazing to see the happiness that is brought to him. He is normally a pretty pessimistic person and sarcastic but after the temple it was a complete 180 flip! We had to rush to Lebanon for Roger's baptism shortly after! Remember him?? (Throw back to the days I was in a trio and working 2 area haha) I performed a musical number with another Elder in the mission and we literally practiced 15 minutes before the baptism, meaning we sang it twice and called it good...needless to say, I was pretty stressed about that :) but when focusing on the meaning of the song and just praying for the Spirit to touch the people listening, I felt so much better. Roger's non-member family members who came were in awe of the song, we are truly blessed as Latter-Day Saints. The baptism was beautiful and the Spirit was there! I am so proud of Roger and that decision he made!

We got to visit a less active that was put in a rest home after her stroke in Lebanon that we haven't seen for months too! She was so positive! I am not sure if she remembered us, but we had a very enjoyable time visiting with her :)

Last but not least, we had a full house in church!! Well, kinda a stressful combination though...Mona Lisa came to church (a less-active we have been working with) Soy, Carla and President Carlson. Back story to why this was stressful: Carla hates Soy...and having both of them at church at the same time, for the first time, while having our mission president there...yep, that's pretty stressful. Anyway, all turned out well and President was able to interview Soy so he could write a letter to the First Presidency :) We have also sat with Soy the past 3 days during breakfast so he won't drink coffee. Please pray for him to have strength! Love you all!

Serving with a Smile,

Sister Bradley