Hello Everyone

Dear Fam,

I am happy to hear you are all doing well. This week we had the baptism of Graceful, Gracious and Annie. They looked so great in their little white dresses and were very excited to be baptized. Linda also seemed very happy, she told us she felt peace as she read 1 Ne 3:7 everyday. She knows that everything will work out, and it will! Freds baptism will be this week, he had a funeral last week that he had to attend so we moved it this week. A women named Anthonia will also be baptized on on saturday. She is a Nigerian and recently left the Ivory Coast a few months ago when things got pretty bad there. She came with almost nothing and is now selling bread and eggs to earn a living. She is hoping to make enough so that she can go back to Nigeria. I don't know if I told you about her in my last letter, but when she first came to church she didn't really like it and she had a hard time accepting some of the doctrine. We left her 3 Ne 11 to read and when we came back she was a completely different person. She accepted every word we said and she loved church these past two weeks. I know the Book of Mormon is the true and it has the power to change lives! I started reading it again this week and as I have read the words of Nephi the most common things I noticed were Keep the Commandments and Joy. Over this past year my testimony of that has become stronger and stronger, I know that keeping the commandments brings joy! We are teaching a guy named Eric, his brother Moses and their sister Pintu. They are orphans, their parents were killed in the war. They are now living with a ward member who is the ward clerk, in Buduburam the work is centered around referrals. We are working with a women named Moma and her son, Jr. And also McDonald, Leo, Princess, Victor, Dorthy and a few others. I'm really excited for this month. Elder Succo and I taught the Aaronic Priesthood class yesterday. We taught about missionary work, it was fun and I think there will be some great missionaries from this ward in the future. I love you all!

-Elder L.