Our recent convert is a single mother of two boys. She recently moved to Innisfail from Darwin and was tracted into by Elders Dudley and Thorpe. She was the first person that I meet when I (Elder Giles) came to Innisfail, she had been found two days previous. Her initial interest was in Joseph Smith, his question was the same one that she had. She has been looking for a church, but wanted to pick the right one. We began teaching her and trying to get her to come to church. Three weeks in a row she got up, got dressed and didn't come. Finally after a few member visits she got up the courage to come to church. I will never forget the feeling I had when I saw her drive up in front of the Chapel.
The moment she walked into the chapel all of the fears she had washed away and she felt comfortable. The next day we set a baptismal date for the 22th of December and the whole family progressed quickly from there. The biggest problem we had was picking a place to have the baptism since we do not have a font at our chapel, she chose a favorite swimming spot at a nearby creek. We have renamed the place "The Creek of Mormon"
Currently she is almost done with the Book of Mormon and excitedly doing her family history to prepare for the temple. She is on fire and a great strength to the branch. We feel so blessed to have been able to be a part of her continuing conversion.
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