at least it's more of a picture than we've seen for a long time :)
What is up, all?
This week was an incredibly good one
for the Visak zone, full of good news. In part, some good news is that
I (miraculously) recovered my photos from the past few weeks [parent note: well.. the miracle is yet to be seen as evidenced by the partial photo of only one picture that he sent; but we haven't given up hope and believe that faith precedes the miracle :)]!! So
there will be some coming your way. We had three baptisms across the
zone this week, two of which were from our companionship!!
Purushotham's parents (Mutyalayya and Paidithalli) were both
baptized!!! Man, they are seriously awesome. This week I will simply
elaborate on the baptisms in the Visak zone, they are pretty cool.
So on Sunday
morning we got a call from Shravani (Purushotham's wife) explaining
that they had had a death in the family. Our hearts sank. We were
about to explain that we could move the baptism to a different week at
their leisure, when she told us that her parents-in-law were asking if
they could still be baptized that day!! Talk about awesome faith,
right? I thought that was awesome. They are seriously such wonderful
people. I'm so happy for them.
The other
baptism in the zone was in the Visak 2nd branch, this one was
particularly cool. So there is an elder currently serving in Hyderabad,
from the Visak 2nd branch, who is, or at least was, one of the only
members in his family--up until yesterday! As is the case with many
native missionaries who come from part member families, his mother
started meeting with the missionaries upon his departure for the mission
field, and yesterday she was baptized--BY HER SON!! The mission
president granted him special permission to come to Visak for a day and
baptize his mother. How beautiful is that? There is nothing more
beautiful than the Gospel, I know that without the faintest shadow of a
doubt. [parent note: Jonathan mentioned that they had fifteen baptisms across the mission this wee and also had seventeen investigators attend sacrament meeting. He says that they are honestly overwhelmed with work to do]
There is so much to rejoice about.
Love,
Elder Tuscano
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