Eric Stephany gets baptized

sup yall

 Got transfer call i am staying with Goodwine and we will be training 2 new missionaries. 

its been a sick week.

Eric Stephany whose been coming to church for the last 6 months got baptized!!! He is 16 and his mom was having a hard time letting him go through with it. We taught him about fasting and prayer and invited him to do it. He bore his testimony at church on sunday like this.... For the past month I have fasted from 11:30 at night to 11:30 in the afternoon praying and studying throughout the night asking the lord for my mom to let me get baptized. I was truly scared to ask her because she is very weak and sick and I dont want to hurt her feelings. After 3 weeks I asked her and she gave me her blessing. And asked me while it took me so long to ask. In tears he said that he was getting baptized that night. Eric has been through lots of hard times when he was 7 his Dad passed away who was a former bishop but went less active... And other trials and challenges with family and friends. Eric has a testimony from reading the Book of Mormon just like Joseph Smith said any man will come nearer to God by abiding by its precepts than by any other book. Eric also told us he is serving a mission when he turns 18 even though he has scholarship offers to play football for many teams including the Oregon Ducks. 

Tell me something that would bring greater happiness? It has truly been a blessing to see Eric become converted to the gospel simply by reading, fasting, and praying. 

At the baptism Erics mother came and was in tears by the end wouldnt be suprised if she got baptized here soon as well

Wedding week for Haley

Mom, wow some crazy week yall have had!!! Looks like it has been tons of fun though:) Dominican Republic huh?? that sounds like a blast. good for them. 

Yeah we will have to go to the san diego temple when i get back I would love that. It is my fav temple from what i have seen. 

Yeah we could baptize anyone we want in the sound that person just needs to be down for that.. haha its freezing i hear but i just havent even ever asked so we will probably try and do it this next transfer. I am going on an exchange with elder smith today it will be fun.

Sounds like you have had a wonderful week i love and miss you all!!!! lovesss

Elder Fife

On Mon, Jul 27, 2015 at 9:58 PM, Sandra Fife <jnsfife@yahoo.com>wrote:

Well son your sister is all married off. Her and Mckay are on their honeymoon in the Dominican Republic. I was Haley's escort in the temple on Wednesday when she took out her endowments and that was awesome! The sealer was great he was dads former stake pres and friend of the family. He did such an awesome job. Gave some amazing council and insights. You were missed! The San Diego temple is so beautiful. The celestial room is incredible we will have to go check it out sometime:)

You had a crazy but awesome week last week. Never a dull moment around their. I saw a picture of a Elder Smith baptizing someone in the puget sound. That's so cool. Will you have an opportunity to do that?

The church is true keep trying to spread the word. You are amazing thank you for your example obedience and hard work. Cade says he hasn't gotten an email from you for a couple of weeks. Are you not getting yours? He left for scout camp today in the Tetons. Then football starts next week for the boys. Hannah has soccer tryouts then school starts and the summer will be over. Then you'll hit a year mark. Wow!! elder Dewey comes home this week.

All my love to you son you are in my thoughts and prayers every single day.  Lovessss momma

Sent from my iPhone

Hit 11 months

so the only stuff that was damaged was the spray stuff it is the last thing you use when you use it. it is liquid the other stuff is like shampoo and condish the tie and socks made it okay 

thanks so much for everything you do for me momma :) i hit 11 months seems like that was a really fast 11 months to me cant believe it. 

IM really excited to hear about the wedding and everything its in only a couple days bet haley is pretty nervous about things!!

I love you so much thanks for all you do

Elder FIfe

Samoans be tripping

Good week this week. 

We taught Naomi and her daughter jirleen for about a week they were staying with some of our investigators for a couple weeks. They live in alaska and were talking to missionaries up there but they said they never had time to really sit down and talk with them. We taught them a couple lessons and it seemed like they werent really interested.. but turns out there was just tons of family issues. Our original investigator Alofa got in a fight with her boyfriend and went to jail for a couple nights and it just got pretty wild for a minute. We keep going over and we became good friends quick they started progressing very fast and 2 days later they were baptized. Lots of miracles happened while teaching them. Everyting just seemed to work out perfectly. Last sunday all of the samoans thought that their was going to be a tsunami so they were trippin. We went over to their house and they were just waiting for their laundry to be done then they were going back to alaska but we stopped them and an hour later they found out it was bogus so its always cool to have the spirit direct you where you need to go. 

hopefully this email makes sense

I love you all hope you have a good week.

 

From sister Sheppard from Tacoma

It's the next best thing to having him home

Christian and the elders lead 500 Samoans in a parade in a lava lava.