Exciting Sunday

We had a very exciting day on Sunday. We had three people baptized.
First there was Johnny Garcia, he is Carrie Benavetes,s future husband. When we first visited Carrie and Johnny, Carrie was a member but inactive. After we visited they came to church the next Sunday, but the next two Sundays they did not come. So we visited them again and after the visit Jen said I really think she wants to go to church, had the feeling she really wanted to go to church but there must be some reason it is not happening.
So we visited them again and ask them if there was something keeping them from church, they explained that Johnny drive from El Campo to Wharton every week day for work, so as tight as their money was they did not have the gas to go to church, the time they came the tank was almost all the way emty and they prayed that they would make it home and they did.
When we found that the thing keeping them from church was so easily fix, we started giving then a few dollars every week for gas to come to church, they have not missed since then.
When Johnny first started coming to church he would bring his bible and stay for all three hours, we made sure he got a Book of Mormon with a scriture chain in it that had all the important scriptures high light that would be important for an investigator to read.
After his first two or three times at church I ask him if he would be willing to be taught, he said he would so we told Elder Smith and Elder Schwarz to stop by and see them.
Johnny progressed very quick and he was getting to the point when he had been taught enough to be baptized, but their the problem that even though he and Carrie needed to be married they had been living together.
By this time Elder Smith had been replaced by Elder Cameron, and he and Elder Schwarz decided to challenge them to live apart until they got married, they accepted the challenge and that was that.
We took him and Carrie to the mission home fireside tyhe night of his baptism, they really enjoyed it..
All for now...We love you all, Elder and Sister Carter