Hi everyone!
Thanks for all of your emails! I love hearing from all of you. Good news: Demarco was baptized on Saturday! I'm sending you a picture (Picture 3). The man on the far left is Ben, who baptized him, and then it's Demarco, Sister Devenport, and then me.
The service went nicely, but none of Demarco's family came! The Rust family has taken him in, though, and brings him to church every week. They are such saints. I was thinking during his baptism about how much he will bring to the ward--he has grown since we first started teaching him, and I just know his comprehension will continue to grow. The Holy Ghost really does enhance increase our capacity to understand things!!
Now that he is baptized, we are focusing on Michele's baptism coming up this Sunday! We met with her on Monday after her baptismal interview, and she was just laughing the whole time because she was so happy. She started meeting with missionaries in 2007, and she has had so many things to overcome before getting to this point, but it just goes to show that people really can overcome barriers and progress! Michele used to think she would never be able to come to church, or she would never get permission to be baptized, but everything has gradually just fallen into place.
Pictures 6 and 9 are from our Memorial Day dinner at Kirtland. Picture 9 is from a skit--they had some of us improvise Kirtland-inspired skits using props for post-dinner entertainment. My group did a Wizard of Oz version of the journey to Kirtland, and then this group is retelling the revelation of the Word of Wisdom in the school of the prophets, but with a superstar Joseph Smith (sunglasses removed for this picture). Can you see it? Well, it was all fun, anyway.
I love you all!
Love,
Katherine
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