"Elder Lange, do you think you can baptize me?"

"This week has been really good! We had a lesson with a family. They have 3 girls, 13, 12 and 9. The youngest one wants to get baptized but the older 2 aren't really sure. During church I was sitting with them and the little girl comes up to me and says "Elder Lange, do you think you can baptize me?" I was like of course! Man my heart filled with so much joy to see this little girl having the desire to get baptized. And taking the steps she needs to. She was so happy that I said yes. Seeing people improve and become happy from living the gospel is probably the best thing to see! After church we had a lesson with the family and it went really good! The 2 older girls participated and wanted to learn. I know it helped a lot. This family is one of the coolest families, they almost feel like family. Im sure this is how every body you teach is supposed to feel. Hopefully we can change the girls mind before the baptism though, its on the 7th. 

We are teaching another family the lives way in the boones. We have to drive on the bumpiest road for like 10 miles. The road keeps going in all these different directions so we had to follow him out there the first time. He told us to never turn on the wrong road out there because if anyone out there sees someone coming up their drive way they will just start shooting at you, no questions asked. So it was pretty scary driving out there the second time trying to remember the exact roads he took, but we finally made it and now we just have it memorized. When you finally get to their house you go down a really steep hill. To get out you have to have 4 wheel drive. They have like 10 dogs just running around and they are all ratty and havent had a bath in like 2 years but he feeds and knows every single one of them. They all came from the same batch of puppies and are all pure white so i have no idea how he tells them apart. They live in a trailer off of the only solar they can get, so they pretty much dont have power. It sits on a couple of cinder blocks and looks like its going to fall at any second. The family is really cool though. They only have one kid and he is 9. He loves when we play sports with him because he has no neighbors so he has no one to hang out with. He will always go and get his flat soccer ball and we will play with him for a while, he loves it. The family has never come to church but showed up one day and loved it. They want to be baptized and love the feeling of being at church and always comes for all 3 hours. We had a lesson with them right after the Gordons and a super good lesson. We had him say the closing pray and by the end of it, the whole family was crying. 

We are teaching a lot of other people but I mostly wanted to tell you about these families. All of the people we start teaching progress really fast and love having us over. We literally just run into these people and somehow they are already prepared for us. Its so crazy to think how big of a part the Lord plays in our lives!

Love Elder Lange