Easter Was A Great Day!

Apr 1, 2013 at 8:54 AM

Dear Family & Friends,

Thank you so much for the package and all of your notes and letters.  I enjoyed reading them very much.  I received a few other Easter packages from members of the Ward and will be writing them some thank you cards soon.  I have such an awesome family & ward family.

Easter was a great day!  We had church, really great lesson from the Bishop in combined Priesthood and Relief Society.  Then the Sister Missionaries in the Ward shared a good lesson in Sunday School on the last week of the Savior's Life.  Following which the Sacrament meeting was very good with the Easter Program, several members invited non-members, and a new family of 7 moved into the Ward from Nigeria.  We had a great opportunity to offer service all Easter afternoon as well.  A couple in the Ward is moving and we had helped move some things into their truck with the Ward's help the day before.  After church we were talking with them and Elder Berryessa and I knew that they still needed some help getting the rest of their house in order before moving.  She is in bio-medical research and has been working 16-18 hours a day and he is a busy businessman.  We went over that afternoon and were able to help them load up the last of their belongings and get their house cleaned up before they had to be out today.  It was good to be able to serve them, especially on Easter.  Christ went about doing good and I am glad we had that opportunity to follow His example on this Easter Sunday.

Investigator/people we are teaching updates:  Cortina is working towards a date for baptism on May 11th.  Her mom is actually meeting with missionaries over on the West side of Cleveland right now as well. Cortina's fiancé proposed to her so we are having them meet with the Bishop to discuss potentially getting married at the Church by the Bishop. Still about 5-6 months away.  However, she is inviting her cousin, mom, and fiancé to come to a session of General Conference this upcoming week.  Pray that they come.  Julio is doing well.  We took a great member over to his home this past week.  The member served his mission in Brazil and was able to effectively communicate some of the difficult words/parts of the message we were discussing.  Now that Julio is able to better understand all that we are sharing I think he will commit to work towards baptism on a specific date.  His family is warming up to it too I think.  The member wants to invite Julio and his family over for dinner in 2 weeks. What a great fellow shipper! Julio is on a cruise with his family for the next two weeks.  Hope there are some fine upstanding members on board that he befriends.  Brother Archie is the man that you think is Hayden, Dad. Hayden is a girl that is a college student.  We are meeting with her again later this week.  Brother Archie didn't make it to church this week and hasn't visited the family history center, but we will be meeting with him again on Wednesday.  We met a new investigator this past week as well named Karion.  She is 19 and has been following a blog that talked a lot about some positive things about Mormons the other day and so she went to mormon.org and requested a visit.  We met with her and she has a sincere desire to strengthen her faith in Christ.  She has visited many churches over the years but has not felt that, "any of them were it."  We will be sharing the restoration with her this next week.  She got called into work for our last appointment so we are re-scheduling with her now.

Sounds like you are having a great Easter/Spring Break!  I hope the remainder of it goes well.  I love you all lots!

Love,

Elder Weaver