Busy and productive week

O goodness mom don't scare me like that with that scary story!
[Yesterday after the family finished going to Independence Grove for a picnic and biking, Dan, Nat, Brad and mom rode back to Nat's house on bikes and saw a big commotion of paramedics and police at the entrance of Natalie's sub-division. The timing was close to the time the 4 cars being driven back by the rest of the family should have arrived at Natalie's house...(Dad drove the Toyota, Brit drove Mom's car, Aaron drove their van and Jackie drove Nat's van) Well the ones riding their bikes home were concerned especially when they turned within the sights of the wreck to see Aaron walking around the area. YIKES! Evidently all 4 of them were immediately behind the guy that got hit and witnessed him turn his full sized van right in front of an oncoming corvette which caused both his full sized van and the vett to plow into a mini van who was waiting to turn out of the subdivision. It was quite messy...but thankfully no one was seriously hurt. Jackie was pretty shaken up to see it all happen in front of her and to know how close they all were to it possibly being any of them. We are deeply grateful that the family was safe.]
My heart started beating hard and ya I'm sure you were all protected cuz of all the prayers we do as a family and my prayers for yawl. I'm very glad everyone is safe and its still weird for me hearing Jackie driving alone. Well this past week was cool and was a productive week. We set up 2 more baptism dates, and yes mom thanks to all these baptisms our focus now is finding more people. But we still have plenty to do. I think they need to split our area in half because its so big and we have so much to do. Right now we are working with this guy named Raul. He is very interested but is waiting for is answer to the church and the book of Mormon. He also wants his family to listen to the lessions but they don't have very much interest right now. But little by little they will, its way awesome. Also we have this investigator, Rosa who we kinda lost touch with cuz she started working a lot. Luckily this past week we found her again and we are working with her smoking problem but mostly forgiving her son. We are trying to help her mend some wounds in this family because apparently a while back her son kept asking for money and when she didn't have enough for herself, she finally said, "no you have to raise and provide for your family by yourself cuz I don't have any more." Well he got mad and hit her and its been bitter feelings ever since. So shes been waiting for him to come to her and ask for forgiveness but then i shared a scripture in the doctrine and covenants with her and she was just kinda taken away. She started saying how she didn't do anything. It was a very cool lecion, so we set another baptism date for her cuz she wants to wait until she and her son are better to get baptized. So we set a date when she was going to call him and tell him she forgives him. Until then shes going to pray for strength to do it. So we are all praying for her because I can imagine this is going to be a very hard thing for her to do.
Well hope everyone is doing well at home. Party hardy for Nat's b-day! Next year I'll be there!
Love you lots
Elder Schupple