Rose Mary Amu, 14 April, 2012
Leeuwarden
Elder Mathis, Rose
Mary, Joy and Elder Van Rij
We met Rose Mary in
Leeuwarden outside the church building on March 14th. We are usually not
in Leeuwarden on Wednesday's, but we had an appointment scheduled there that
day. We were at the church because that's where the Van Komen's were going
to pick us up to take us to our appointment. Well, as we were waiting in
the church, we looked outside and saw two ladies pointing to the church with a
Liahona with President Monson's picture on it in their hands.
So we ran outside and started talking to them. Rose Mary had a visitor,
Joy, (her boyfriend's mother), who came to stay with Rose Mary during the last
month before the baby came. While there, Joy (member of the church from
Italy) wanted to introduce Rose Mary to the Church. So we got their
information and planned on seeing them at church on Sunday.
We began teaching Rose Mary last month and planned a
baptismal date for April 28th, about 10 days after her baby was
due. We figured that anything before then would be too early and she
wouldn't be prepared. So we began teaching her two times a week.
The lessons were great, and Rose Mary kept all her commitments and began to
recognize the Spirit testifying of the truth of our message. It was great
to have Joy there who could encourage her and answer her questions after we
would leave.
Well then on Tuesday, April 10th, Elder Van De Graaf came on
splits and we went to teach Rose Mary. On our way to the lesson I told
him, ''We need to move her baptismal date back, she probably will need more
time after her baby comes.'' He said, ''Let's just move it forward to
before the baby comes.'' So I said, ''That means it would have to be
in four days!'' Well, we made a plan of action and we thought we would
ask Rose Mary in our lesson if she would like to be baptized on Saturday the
14th. She was really happy and said she would want that. So we
taught her every day that week, some days even twice. Well, she was
prepared before we even met her. She loved the commandments and the
gospel. She was willing and ready to do anything Jesus Christ and God
asked of her.
So after a crazy week of being taught every single day, she
was baptized on April 14th. She felt the Spirit strongly during the
baptismal service and afterwards told us how she felt ''so clean.''
Her baby is due to come this Wednesday (a boy named Nino),
and she is grateful to have the gift of the Holy Ghost to help her go through
this process. Rose Mary is a great disciple of Jesus Christ and ready to walk
in Christ's footsteps.
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