Week 25

We finally got our first Baptism! She is one of the most prepared investigators I have ever met. She was reading and praying before we even met her. Her father is a great example for her and teaches her well, he is less active and working on getting married so his wife can get baptized too. Then next year they hope to get sealed in the temple. So this is only one of the family and others should be getting baptized soon. 

This week went by really really fast. We had three days in a row where we taught Alejandra so she would be ready for her baptismal Interview. The interview was saturday and the baptism was on sunday. It was an awesome little service. 

I have been healthy happy and doing great. 

We bought a kilo of tacos al pastor a Puebla specialty to celebrate the baptism (we bought it on saturday) and I got a package this week too! I don't know which though, I haven't gone to pick it up from the zone leaders yet. 

We have been having a blast. This week has been the week of the masons. The free masons. If you dont know what that is, go watch national treasure.

We have two in our ward, one is the ward mission leader and the other is a good friend of ours. The ward mission leader here grew up in Texas and speaks english his name is sergio church. His dad was from Philadelphia and his mom is poblana. He is a mason and loves dropping secrets to us about masonry. The crazy thing is he was recently rebaptized after being away from the church for a long time. So he has never been inside an LDS temple (yet) but he always talks about all the symbols in masonry and they are so similar. He says the only difference between masons and mormons is the priesthood, which is why he is a member of the church. He understands the masons are lacking in that area. 

Also there is this former missionary named Zeus that is a mason. He took us to meet one of his friends who is now one of our investigators named Jesus and also a mason. There are a lot of masons here

The ward mission leader came with us to the lesson with Jesus and as you can imagine it was a match made in heaven (or inside a mason temple) they got along like best friends. 

He asked us to give him five days to read the book of mormon, pray about it and write down his questions. He said he reads fast and will have the whole book done by next monday. So I am Super Excited to go back and teach him again. He was such a sincere old man, just looking from some further knowledge to help him get closer to God. One thing that really caught his attention was that our church leaders are married. He doesn't like that the fact that catholic priests, the pope etc. all spend there lives alone. He thinks it would be much better to be married and they should be equals. He honestly is such a perfect fit for the church. I cant wait to teach him again.