Week 24

Well, we had an incredible baptismal service this week. It was 12 people commiting to follow christ and be clean from the sins of the world all in one night. The Sister missionaries in our ward are absolutely killing it right now. they had a family of six all baptized and confirmed the following sunday (yesterday) I was terrified to do the confirmation in church, but my companion did one too, and his spanish is way worse than mine so that helped me calm down. But the best experience was this old man we baptized from another ward, deaf, hobbles around with a cane and could not by any means get baptized the normal way. soo we got creative. 

we walked him into the font with his cane and with a chair. He sat down in the chair for the prayer and then it was the fun part. He was so old he couldn't really do anything but sit there and hold his breath. We took the chair out from under him, dunked him, he threw his hand in the air... didn't count. Then we changed positions. We had four elders in the font with this old guy, I got leg duty, push his legs down under the water, easy enough. My companion was holding him under his shoulders and on his knee. Anyways the other three are holding him in their arms, hes just laying back like he is in a lazy boy recliner. Then they count down from 3, 2, 1, and I look in this old mans face and he was so peaceful I gave him a thumbs up and asked him, Everything Ok? he just smiled and laughed a little and closed his eyes. Soooo peaceful and calm. and the four of us all pushed him under the water at the same time and baptized him. The bishop gave us the thumbs up, BAPTIZED  as He came out of the water still peaceful and happy he thanked us all and we helped him to his feet and gave him his cane and he hobbled out of the baptismal font. It was the coolest baptism I have ever seen in my life. 

The rest of this week was pretty boring. We are worried about our investigator that is supposed to be baptized this saturday, her mom is still not married, so she probably wont get baptized with her. But her dad ( a member) still wants to baptize her, and she is ready. The only problem is that we don't know if mom is going to join her daughter in the font on saturday. 

I have been really doing awesome lately, my comp is my best friend, again, and the lord is blessing me a ton. 

I know this is the work of the Lord. It is so good to be here and just give Him all I got. I highly recommend it to anyone and everyone that wants to have an incredible spiritual experience and forget the world for a couple years. it is a blast.