It's been a marvelous Sabbath Day. This morning, in the Augusta Ward, our Gospel Principle's Class was bursting at the edges with new members and investigators. It was a beautiful and inspiring sight. A new young lady was in our Sacrament meeting by the name of Lacey. We introduced ourselves and informed her of the Post Branch and also informed her of our FHE and Institute class. Later when we got up to post, she actually showed up to check out the Branch! She is a convert of only a year and half, but she wanted to see how the branch operated. She had a wonderful time with us, but not only that, she also participated in the baptism service by offering the invocation.

At our Branch meeting, we had several new folks come out, in fact we had one brother come out who is here TDY, but has not been active in the church for many years, but he came out because we took the time to visit with him and invite him when we saw him at a farewell party.

We had a wonderful baptism for Brother Mardanlou. Everything went very well. It was a very spiritual experience!

 Elder Gowans, Brother Mardanlou, Elders Douglas and Heyland

After our Branch meetings concluded, we had our normal Sunday visit with the Johnson Family. We believe that though their progress is slow, it is coming along. We encouraged them to put the atonement to use in their lives, by using it to overcome their weaknesses; we encouraged them to cease using sarcasm and to help each other through faith and charity to work together in building each other up.

After our visit with them we went to visit one of our Doctors in training, Brother Babcock. He is just one of several medical students who have come through on rotation through the Eisenhower Medical Center.