Mahala is golden!!

I think that I have finally met my first "golden" investigator.

She lives directly above a twelve year-old boy that the Spanish elders are teaching.  She saw his copy of El Libro de Mormon and asked him if he could give her one.  

He, in turn, told the elders that he had a friend named Mahala who wanted an English Book of Mormon.  

The elders assumed that Mahala was a middle school classmate, but we missionaries don't exactly turn down opportunities to give copies of the Book of Mormon to eager readers.  And so they gave him a Book of Mormon.  Young Junior immediately ran upstairs to give the book to Mahala, and the elders found out that she's twenty years old, not twelve.  Since she speaks English and lives in our English area (Metairie), the elders gave her to us!

In our first lesson, she told us that her brother has recently started going to church.  He's in the Air Force, and I guess on Sundays, you can either workout or go to church.  He didn't want to work out, so he decided to go to church.  And then he liked it.  We assumed that he was just going to a non-denominational Air Force church, but we learned yesterday that he has been attending The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, and that he is preparing for baptism in two weeks.  

Mind you, he is meeting with missionaries in Germany.  

And Mahala is meeting with missionaries in Louisiana.  

But within the space of a few weeks, two siblings independently started investigating the Church, attending Church, and preparing for baptism on a specific date.

She doesn't smoke or drink, and she's trying to convince her boyfriend to smoke and drink less than he does right now.  Her boyfriend is a native Spanish speaker, so whenever we give her a pamphlet in English we give her the same pamphlet in Spanish so that he can read it when he gets home from work.  

On Saturday night, she and her boyfriend read from the Book of Mormon together.

She came to church on Sunday.

She and her brother, who are still not actually members of the Church, are "tag-teaming" (in her own words!) their parents to help their parents go to "Mormon church" this coming Sunday.  

There is no such thing as coincidence.

We would love for y'all to keep Mahala and her families in your prayers!