As we were driving home this morning, we saw a pile of palm leaves discarded on the corner. Someone had trimmed their trees yesterday. We had decided that we would do the Easter Week activities from the “Don’t Miss This!” YouTube series, so we had to have one of those palm leaves. You can see us in the picture at the end. If you and your family want a fun series of things to do for Easter and focus on the Savior at the same time, search on YouTube or find the link at emilybellefreeman.com/Easter. We are just a couple of old people who want to focus on the Savior this week through our New Testament study in “Come, Follow Me.” If we can find wheat berries (seeds) here in Laredo, we will plant today for the Lazarus-wheat-grass metaphor. Wish we could send y’all a palm leaf!
We have a wonderful family in 1st Ward who has seven brilliant children (six boys and one girl! I relate). Dad is a history professor at the university, and Mom is a leader and teacher at home and church. It is their children who always amaze us with their understanding, knowledge, and testimonies of the gospel. The fourth-grader bore his testimony yesterday about the power of prayer and the reality of Heavenly Father. He said he was taking his state tests last week and wanting to do his very best. He offered a prayer for help; then he felt a little selfish and prayed for help for his whole class to do well. He thought of one student in particular who struggled with ADHD and learning disabilities and prayed for him. When the teacher announced scores, that boy had gone from 50% last year to 87% this year. It was so sweet. I thought of Jill and the teachers in Utah who are administering tests with the prayers of some of their faithful little people.
We had two baptisms this weekend. One was an older woman, and the other was a young man (YSA) who went to the open-house two weeks ago and joyfully entered the waters of baptism Saturday. There may be other baptisms from the open-house. Investigators were in our meetings yesterday as a result of it. It is a blessing to teach our seminary students, institute students, missionary-prep students, and temple-prep students. This weekend a former Texas McAllen-mission president and his wife were visiting from South Jordan and rejoicing in the creation of the Laredo Stake. We were lucky to be invited to lunch with them at the Orozcos’.
Happy Easter Week to y’all! How blessed we are by the Savior’s Atonement and resurrection, the restored gospel, and our Heavenly Father’s plan of happiness!
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