A week to remember

We received the following email from Elder Olivier on May 1, 2023. 

On Saturday Ray got baptized!

This has been a long anticipated event for me and Elder Johnson. When I was serving in Hebron in December, Elder Churchill and I went to stop by an unknown member's address that we found in our areabook. When we knocked on the door, a gentleman named Ray came out wearing a star wars shirt. We started talking to him and he ultimately said that the person who we were looking for, the previous owner of the house, had passed away, but he said we could come back and share a message about Jesus. The first meeting we had with Ray and his wife Krystal was stellar. We had brother Duran with us and they were able to establish a connection! A few lessons later brother Duran shared one of the most powerful testimonies of how he came to know the Book of Mormon was true that I and my two companions at the time had ever heard on our missions! I wish you all could have been there to experience it, but I don't think you'd all fit in the living room. Eventually as we kept teaching Ray and Krystal, two Sister missionaries were sent to be in charge of the area they lived in so they continued lessons with them. But since they came in, Elder Johnson and I have been asking about Ray and Krystal at every opportunity we got! It was a great privilege to be able to attend his baptism on Saturday and to see how excited they were! Brother Duran baptized Ray and Ray was smiling so big when he came out of the water. Hopefully Krystal will be able to have her baptism soon!

Here's a nice verse about baptism from Mosiah 18-

Now I say unto you, if this be the desire of your hearts, what have you against being baptized in the name of the Lord, as a witness before him that ye have entered into a covenant with him, that ye will serve him and keep his commandments, that he may pour out his Spirit more abundantly upon you?

Elder Olivier!