The Happenings Of Elder Toph Tribe: Life is hot and good.

So let's start this off with the story of Aeriel. Just in case some of
you haven't been keeping up. Plus it'll help everyone see the story as
a whole. So there was a lady that for 3 months I had tried and tried
to teach her the gospel. She just wasn't interested. The reason that I
tried so hard was because I received a prompting that came with an
affirmation. The Spirit told me that she needed the gospel. The Spirit
also told me that I was going to be the one who taught her the gospel.
With this knowledge from the Holy Ghost, I was gung-ho about trying to
teach her. Well these 3 months went by and she showed no signs of
interest. I got transferred and I was really bummed and confused. Well
with the transfer, I ended up keeping my last area and just adding a
new one on to it. A few weeks later, we get a call that this lady has
been coming to church every Sunday since I left. She wants to hear
what we have to say! We set up a lesson with a member and go on out
there. From that point on we met with her weekly and taught her all
the lessons. She received opposition and negative influences. She just
about gave up. But she hung tight to the spiritual impressions that
she had received of the truthfulness of the gospel. She quit smoking
in one week. And this past weekend, I got to baptize her. It was an
incredibly spiritual moment for me. It boosted and reassured my faith
in promptings. God has a plan and He will make his plan and promises
be fulfilled. I know that Aeriel was someone in the Pre-Mortal Life
that I promised I would teach her the gospel. It was amazing. I can't
explain the feelings in words.

It's been hot in Glendale. We hit 120 on Sunday. It was lots of fun to
be on bike! We were told multiple times that we were stupid and that
we needed to go somewhere inside. We pressed on! The Lord has a work
to be done here in the La Pradera Park Ward and no matter of heat can
stop it.

This P-Day we went bowling. I ended up winning with a score of 144!
I'm pretty sure that's the best I've ever bowled, so that was pretty
sweet! Our zone has a bowling trophy that goes to the winner of that
round of bowling. So I now am in possession of the Glendale Bowling
Trophy.

Cool investigator story of the week. We had a family of investigators
come to church yesterday! Now they are on date to be baptized in July!
They have lots of little kids, but 3 members of the family are of
baptism age! That was super exciting!

I love you all and I hope all is just dandy!

-Elder Toph Tribe
Areiel's baptism