October 23

The next morning our companionship woke up with a resolve to do a little better I think. After I had gone to bed, Love and Tripp went out into the foyer to talk a little more calmly about what had really been bothering them which I think was an excellent choice looking back on how the day could have gone had everything not been resolved.
We had the opportunity to teach an 'investigator' named Barbara (not sure if I said this already but we found out that she was certainly not an investigator when we went to do a session at the temple and she was working). She is probably in her 60's or so and is a real hoot but we were able to open her up a little bit and she mentioned something about her boy and that stood out to me..so I asked her about it and she told us that her son Eric had died when he was a baby and so because of that..neither she nor her husband Harvey wanted to join a church because they didn't want to go anywhere different than Eric. They had been taught by some different Christian denominations that Eric would go to hell because he had died without being baptized and my heart just broke her her! This was someone's real life story and there really are people, tons of people, who have been told that same lie all over the world! So I testified to Barbara not only of the false belief of necessity of infant baptism but also of eternal families.
The spirit was so strong by that point in the lesson that I actually felt that I should ask Barbara if she would be baptized. She said that she would have to talk to Harvey about it and then my companions just took the lesson in a completely different direction! I was so mad! We were obviously not on the same page but I guess it couldn't have been too detrimental seeing as how she is already a member and all but still!
At lunch right after that we were all sitting together as a zone when I noticed an investigator sitting alone so I got a few sisters to go with me and get to know her. She was great! Her name was Sarah and she was there for her job..getting paid to let missionaries teach her about our church..pretty cool. Lunch was only an hour though so we cleared up some of the things she was confused about and then set up an appointment to meet with her the following Monday for lunch!