Hello family. It´s been a crazy week but not as bad as
last week.
This week we
had the baptism for Noel and Maria. It was probably one of my favorites
so far because both of them are really cool. Maria has gone to church
without fail for about the last 9 or 10 weeks. It was very special
because she was finally able to quit smoking and she´s setting such a great
example for the rest of her family (three of which are progressing
investigators at the moment). Noel was great because he´s my first
completed family on the mission. His son was the first to join the church
in his family and he went on a mission and the day he got back he baptized his
mom. The son was able to baptize Noel so he ended up baptizing both of
his parents after his mission which is pretty cool.
The baptism
was on Saturday and we bought a cake and Coke at PriceSmart and had the baptism
at 6. About 50 people came to the baptism (many of them because it was
right after mutual at the church and the youth wanted cake). The only
hiccup was the Noel is a bigger guy and his son had some trouble getting him
all the way under. It ended up taking 3 tries. So Maria, who´s also
a bit of a bigger lady was super worried because she went next but Noel´s son
pulled through in the stretch and got her under the first try. Maria said
the next day that the night of her baptism was the best sleep she´s had in her
life and she felt completely different. She shared that in gospel
principles class on Sunday after her confirmation and all of our other
investigators heard it so that was a definite score:)
Also on
Sunday Kirby, Mel, Veronica, Familia Robleto (Javier, Muriel, and Celeste)
came. Unfortunately Maria del Carmen who came last week didn´t
come. We´re still not sure what happened there. We were sitting
there in sacrament meeting and about half way through I saw Sonia (who we
baptized on Jan 30) and her mom and her two younger siblings walk in. I
was super surprised (and very happy). It was surprising to see them
because a few weeks ago we had talked to the mom, Urania, and she got super
evangelico on us and got pretty mad at us so we thought she wasn´t going to let
her daughter come to church anymore but it looks like Sonia was a great example
to her family and got them to come. It was so crazy because she was the
last person I expected to walk through that door but I can testify that God is
always softening people´s hearts so they repent and keep the commandments.
This week the
goal is to get Kirby baptized. We were going to get him interviewed on
Sunday but after church he kind of disappeared to visit his mom in another city
without telling anyone so we brought the ZLs over for the interview and he was
just gone. But we have an appointment tonight and I have high hopes.
Saturday
was sad because we took Elder and Sister Beals to the airport and we´re on our
own now here in the office but everything is going pretty good so far.
Just really busy. Today we got our hair cut, ate at a good Mexican
restaurant, and received a huge order of drinks for the multizones tomorrow and
next week. Yep I said it, Multizones. More of them. But these
will be a bit easier because there isn´t a visiting authority but still we´ll
have to be on our toes.
Mom, I
got the packages on Monday. THANK YOU!!!! They were great! I
loved the shoes and ties and candy and USB but the best part was by far the
photo album! Seeing some of those swimming pics made me forget how great
my body (especially my abs) used to be;) Now I´ve just got a bit of a
gut. lol whatever. I know that it´s very expensive to send packages
to Nicaragua
Good job with
the engagement pictures Delaney and Mom, Good job with school and going to Real
games Peyton, Good job golfing Dad. Mom, you should probably get on Matt
a bit for not emailing me this week because I have no idea what he´s doing.
Have a great Week!!
Elder Smith
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| Lunch on P-day |
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| Noel and his son who baptized him, along with Cody and Elder Jungers |
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| Cody, Maria, Elder Jungers |
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| A Celebration! |
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| Selfie at the font |
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| The font is in the primary room, which is also the kitchen. |
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