area. This family had adopted them as a mission. (This is my interpretation.) After years, Lena refused to convert. This, at least in part, led to her adopted family kicking her out and basically choosing to have nothing to do with her. After a few years of bouncing around she moved in with some people from Nixa. Her brother has shifted back and forth between mental institutes and prisons. He has several issues we are constantly praying for. A few years ago she moved into the trailer park. We met her shortly after we moved in.

We weren’t close to her at first, but had the chance to pray with her about different things going on in her life, and she was always interested in trying to learn somethingmore about Jesus. Eventually she started going to a large church in Springfield. She seemed to really enjoy it and after a few months she accepted Christ as her savior.

But the church refused to baptize her. They said that because she still had a certain sin in her life they wouldn’t perform the baptism. She asked if I would be able to do it. She was convinced that as long as she wasn’t baptized she was being disobedient. We had a long conversation about what it meant to be a follower of Christ, what baptism was all about, and about sin in the life of a believer. After our conversation I was convinced she was a true follower of Christ and we set up a time for the