I have short email time but that's OK because I just talked
to you yesterday. I don't know how subsequent weeks will be.
I didn't have much opportunity to tell you about what's going on here. This week we started teaching a girl who has been coming to church and seminary for years. Her parents are inactive and they wouldn't let her be baptized until she turned eighteen. She just turned eighteen, so she should be baptized soon.
Last night we put someone in the singles branch on date for baptism. She has said her family doesn't like the idea of her baptism but we asked her to tell her family that she knows it is something she needs to do. It wasn't good when her fellowshipper was telling her maybe to heed their advice and wait.[1] He is a fairly immature person so we were able to discredit his poor advice.
That's all I can think of for now, but I might send another quick email shortly.
Love,
Elder Melville
I didn't have much opportunity to tell you about what's going on here. This week we started teaching a girl who has been coming to church and seminary for years. Her parents are inactive and they wouldn't let her be baptized until she turned eighteen. She just turned eighteen, so she should be baptized soon.
Last night we put someone in the singles branch on date for baptism. She has said her family doesn't like the idea of her baptism but we asked her to tell her family that she knows it is something she needs to do. It wasn't good when her fellowshipper was telling her maybe to heed their advice and wait.[1] He is a fairly immature person so we were able to discredit his poor advice.
That's all I can think of for now, but I might send another quick email shortly.
Love,
Elder Melville
[1]
This guy did have some mental limitations, and I don’t remember the situation
well enough to know whether she should have been baptized then or not. However,
in retrospect, I think missionaries are pressured to baptize people before they
are ready.
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