So on Tuesday, I went on splits with Elder Filmore who is like my step mom in the mission, because he is Elder Morales' trainer from the mission. I was in his area and I learned a lot. He has 6 months longer than me in the mission and I had a lot to learn. We got along pretty well, and together, I did my first hitch hike ever, haha. Fun experience.
On Wednesday I got back to work in my area and we were focused on finding new investigators and contacting our references. We found 5 new investigators this last week. They are a family. Our lesson with them was 2.5 hours long because of all of their questions and stuff. We originally went there for a girl named Abigail who is 21 and we then got the attention of her family...her mom, grandma, and siblings. We really connected with her and she asked us if we could come back and teach her. So, we left her with commitments and with an appointment to go back this Thursday. We are excited.
Then on Saturday, we had the baptism of Juanita. Not for Daniela because of problems that were occurring with her husband. But we ended up having the baptism of Juanita. There was a lot to organize and figure out, but we made it happen. It was really cool because her husband Juan was able to do the ordinance. Very humble and nice couple. Juan was baptized about two months ago and it was just so good.
Then, later that night, I was pretty upset about Daniela not being able to have the opportunity because of her husband and the fact that our zone leader said she wouldn´t be able to be baptized. So, called up the president and told him the situation. He then gave us the permission to talk to her to let her know that if she wanted, she could be baptized without the consent of her husband. So we ran over on Saturday night and told them. Later that night, after they talked about it, she called and said, "I want to be baptized!" So, we planned the baptism that night and had it Sunday morning. When we arrived, and we had the same situation with the water that we had at Francisco's baptism, and on top of that some of the interviews weren´t going to go through; however, we had the assistants in our church building and with them, we were able to figure everything out. It was just so awesome!
On Sunday, we had the opportunity to watch Daniela be baptized by her Dad and then we were able to participate in the confirmation of both Daniela and Juanita.
So, just some tenders blessings. We have prayed for them to make this decision and it is an answer to our and their prayers to have had them enter the waters of baptism!
So just so happy!
I love you all! Have a great week!
P.S Starting contacting by baptismal invitation - trick from our assistants.
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