From David and Viola Ricks
Teaching in Germany
It has been a great week. A Baptism!!!
The Baptism of Qian-Yun Huang! She goes by Claire. She is from
Taiwan going to the University of Wurzburg. She was
baptized Friday night by Bishop Pfister. It was a beautiful
baptism and she is a clean, beautiful young woman. The Elders tracted her
out by door-knocking and have been teaching her for a long time. She was
a Buddhist---she went home in September and got permission from her parents to
be baptized. Her grandma is completely against anything but Buddhism, but a
cousin was baptized a while back in England and her parents thought it was
okay. However, after she came back, she started to have doubts, her friends
were against her Mormon ways and continually invited her to drinking parties,
etc. Regular reading of the Book of Mormon, and a good Yot-Ah-Ay (initials for
YSA) fellow-shipping her made all the difference.
Today she was confirmed. After Sacrament Meeting, she
wanted to tell me how she felt. She has limited English---but very, very
limited German. All of her lessons have been given in English. She reads
her scriptures in Chinese. She said, "I want to tell you two words
of how I felt. After I was baptized, I felt fresh. When I was confirmed I felt
warm all over my body, especially my heart." Nothing could have
described those two ordinances better. Before she was taught, she had
never heard of Jesus Christ. It’s just amazing how the truth rings true,
and those who are prepared, know that Jesus is the Christ. And to think
that she found the truth in Germany! The Lord works in mysterious ways.
