To start this email, I'd like to start off with an experience I had 3 weeks ago. I was on an exchange with Elder Parker (our Roomates/The Assistants), and we were going to go visit a lady that goes by the name "Grandma." She is a 74 year old lady from Africa. I was told that she had been taught since the beginning of April, and had been to church once. She loved having the missionaries over, but wasn't progressing at all. We got there and she treated us like her grandchildren. She was so nice and kind. She couldn't pronounce my last name (which I have found is really common over here... Crazy!), so she called me Michael (which was weird also!). We didn't really have a set lesson. We were just discussing the Book of Mormon and Prophets. As we were reading 2 Nephi 31 (which I found out later was probably the hundredth time they had read that), I had the strongest impressing I have ever felt in my life to invite her to be baptized. I looked at her, and invited her to be baptized August 11th. She stopped talking (which never happens, because she will talk your ear off) and looked at me. There was about a 10 second pause, and then she said "I will do it." Grandma went to church every Sunday up until the day of her baptism. The night before her baptism, Elder Johnson came up to me as I was getting ready for bed, and told me he had a story to tell me. While they were at Grandmas that day, she told them that she had a dream a while ago. In her dream her Mother was talking to her (her mother has been deceased for many years), and in her words "when my mother tells me something, I ALWAYS do it." In the dream, her mother told her to do whatever the missionaries asked her to do the next day. So Grandma woke up, with the intent to say yes to whatever the missionaries asked. That next day was the day that I first met Grandma, and invited her to be baptized. I was able to go to her baptism this last Saturday as well as be in the circle of her receiving the Holy Ghost. She already has a list of over 30 names of her deceased relatives that she is going to go to the temple and get baptized for them... What an incredible lady she is. She is already inviting over all of her neighbors to hear about the gospel. It truly was a miracle.

Transfers are this week. It has been made known to us that Elder Dehaan will be leaving, and I will be training the new office missionary. Elder Dehaan and I had some really good times. I am sad to see him go. 

We also had some missionaries join our mission for a short while. They're serving in India, and need to renew their Visas. They told us that their living conditions are pretty bad. I got to see some pictures of Anthony (my cousin) and Tanners (my friend) apartment. I realize how blessed I am to have such nice living conditions, as well as transportation...

Till next week!

Elder Michael Litchfield