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MICHAEL GOT HIS MISSION CALL TO BOTSWANA, GABERONE MISSION!!!!!!!!!!! And he leaves for the SOUTH AFRICA MTC on HALLOWEEN!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! CHEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEHOOOOOOOOOOOOO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

SO EXCITING!!!!!!!! I can't believe it!!!!! I'm SO stoked for him!!!!!!!!!! He's gonna be the best missionary EVER! AND he's NOT being assigned Spanish, so I feel SO much better, knowing that my bothers won't have a secret language and leaving me out ;) hahahaha

Fun fact: I pretty much scared every BYUH student employee at the library trying to get the video downloaded so I could see him on the video mom sent me. So the internet at the Visitors' Center was completely down so all of us sisters had to go to BYUH, but when we got there the login wasn't working and it was driving us crazy and we were having the workers run around like mad people trying to figure out why we couldn't log in because denying 28 sisters the right to e-mail was turning into QUITE the scene. And THEN when they finally got us on a few computers the video wouldn't download cuz myldsmail was denying it and so I asked random students to log in to their gmail account for me so I could watch it and then I couldn't hear it because the monitor was on the desk but the computer was behind the desk (the desk that the employees use, not a normal desk) and so I was pushing aside all the guys that work there so I could crouch at the computer and listen to my brother open his call and when he read Botswana I was screaming and cheehooing and ALL that jazz (may I remind you I was in the library and it was 8 am) and it was just.....a lot...happening in a very short time hahahaha but it worked and I saw, heard and conquered! SUCCESS!!!!

ANYHOO, so GUESS WHAT!!!! We have a baptism next Saturday!!!!! Her name is Na'ili and she is the most faith-driven, Christlike person I've EVER met! She's been coming to church these past few weeks and Sister Moyes and I committed her for June 22nd at church on Sunday! SO I don't have enough time to tell y'all the lesson but I can combine it with the epiphany that Sister Munoa, sister Moyes and I have been having!

Epiphany: The Gospel of Jesus Christ is FIRST Faith in the Lord Jesus Christ, SECOND repentance and THIRD, baptism for the remission of sins, FOURTH laying on of hands for the gift of the Holy Ghost and FIFTH, enduring to the end.

Well, so many times people are baptized before they ever have faith in Jesus Christ and really repent! As I was studying the Book of Mormon I came across Alma 23:6 which talks about the CONVERSION of the anti-nephi-lehis to Jesus Christ and because of that TRUE conversion they never fall away. A lot of people are being baptized because they "feel good" and they "like" what is being taught. And yet in a matter of months, fall away. Those who are truly converted unto Jesus Christ will do WHATEVER He asks of them. Their will is His will which in turn is Heavenly Father's will. People who are truly converted will keep the commandments because they want to do everything Jesus asks of them. They will be baptized because they want to follow Him and they will stay active because they believe in Him and His atoning sacrifice.

We invited Na'ili to be baptized because SHE is converted unto Jesus Christ. Not because she knows everything or that she's even learned "enough" or that she "likes what is being taught or that she "feels good." We invited her to be baptized because we know, and she IS, willing to follow Jesus Christ, WE are representatives of Jesus Christ. The Book of Mormon is another testament of Jesus Christ. Thomas S. Monson speaks in His name and leads and guides His church. And because she loves the savior, wants to follow the savior, and keep His commandments, she is ready, and will be baptized by someone who holds the authority to do that special ordinance or ceremony in His name. EVERYTHING we do is of Christ. And if we're converted unto Him we will do what He asks which means REPENT.. I am currently a representative of Jesus Christ and I know first hand that no one can come closer to Him through any means, save this Church, HIS church, the Book of Mormon, and His exact doctrine. And I invite all who read this who have NOT been baptized by the Priesthood authority of God to do so and to do it because THEY are converted unto Jesus Christ and they know that this is the way to be closer to Him. If you don't know if this is the way, they I invite you to find out through sincere scripture study of they Book of Mormon and prayer and by meeting with the missionaries.

2 Nephi 25:26 pg 100: We are 100% Christian and I am determined to represent our Lord and Savior to the fullest, and I bear my testimony of Him and my love for Him and my gratitude for His sacrifice, through which we wouldn't be able to achieve exaltation without Him. "I believe in Christ, so come what may." In the name of Jesus Christ, amen.

Sister Bradley