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Howdy everyone! This week has been an unusually busy one - and I confess, pretty stressful! I had hoped that a change in responsibilities would reduce my workload and time spent worrying. I hoped in vain! But we're seeing tremendous blessings anyways.

Aaron

We saw Aaron earlier this week and he's doing well, he's been in the best spirits we've seen since we have met him. He's suffered a series of strokes that have left him with limited mobility in one half of his body, among other problems. That has made it difficult for him to read his Book of Mormon; but when we read with him, he's sharp as a tack! We got ahold of a full set of book-of-mormon audiocassette tapes and we hope he will use them to feel the spirit and fill the loneliness of his life. He was out of town in Bryan for the weekend, so we missed him at church this week!

The Elder's quorum has committed to build him a wheelchair ramp to increase his mobility, so we're hoping to get the ball rolling on that this week.

His baptismal date is Feb 10th, but we're anticipating pushing it back.

Kaylyn

We were pleasantly surprised to see Kaylyn at church this week! We expected her to be out of town. We saw her on Friday and she was doing great - she really enjoyed reviewing the second half of the plan of salvation (the principles of the spirit world all the way through exaltation) she's a little nervous about her baptism - mostly for fear of opposition from her former pastor. Her Baptismal date is Feb 24th.

Jason

Jason came to church with us yesterday! thank you to everyone who introduced themselves to him! He stayed for all three meetings, and then stayed another half-hour to ask questions and see the new high priest group leader be ordained, as he had questions about what that process was like.  His last set of questions was about "what does someone need to do to join the church?"

We think he would have joined the church by now if he didn't have to be baptized! He just doesn't feel like he's ready yet, though I know that he soon will!

We saw Jason twice this week, once to extend a baptismal invitation, and once to give a tour of the church.

The church tour in particular went really well. Jason was obviously touched as he learned about the sacrament. Our member added a touch of humor and a great sense of reverence to the lesson.

This week, we tracted S. Park St. I heard they think we're hilarious here!