My Family,
Hello. I trust you are all enjoying your vacation. Summer is coming to
a close here, and I´m seeing school supplies in the stores and stuff,
truly time passes very very quickly. This next week, in ten days, I
will be completing eighteen months in the mission. Apparently, I´m
supposed to burn a pair of pants or something, don´t know if that's
going to happen but we shall see. it´s crazy, the beginning of the
mission seems so long ago and yet each day, each week is speeding by.
Next weekend we´ll receive our transfers, Elder Ortiz is telling
everybody that I´m departing. It´s probable, seeing as I am one of the
oldies in the zone, but we shall see. Seeing as I have not written for
two weeks here's a few things that have been happening.
The weekend before last we had the baptism of Ashley. She is the nine-year-old
grand daughter of sister Maura, and is here on vacation from
the U.S. Maura asked us to come and teach her. We started and then
learned that her mom is a member, so we thought we couldn´t teach
Ashley. Long story short because she´s nine, not eight, we were
responsible for her preparation. After some rapid teaching and her
interview, Ashley was baptized last Sunday afternoon.
Last week we also found a young man named Juan Carlos. Elder Ortiz and
I were talking to a gentlemen in the street when I turned and began to
speak with a young teenager named Feilin. Feilin told me he had met
with missionaries before not too long ago. As we were talking two
other young men approached us and began to listen. I gave them the
last of my pamphlets and invited them to accompany us to church the
next Sunday. One of the young men is a youth named Juan Carlos. Juan accepted the invitation and last Sunday when we walked into church
there he was waiting for us. These past two Sundays we have been
blessed. Seven investigators came to church last week and six attended
yesterday. Anyways, this past week we started sharing with him and
his grandparents. In the first lesson with them, we were going to share
the Restoration. But first we invited Juan to share with us what he
had learned from his reading. He then shared what he had learned about
God and how he calls prophets, Joseph smith and the restoration. I
enjoyed listening to our own investigator teaching us the first
lesson, it was super cool, one of the coolest experiences in my
mission. Juan accepted to prepare for baptism for the last weekend of
this month. Yesterday he asked me if he could be baptized next Sunday
after church. I told him if he feels he is ready then we´ll do it.
Gotta go,
Love,
Elder Call
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