HEY ALL!!

Well, another week come and gone and man was it BUSY! I don't have a lot of time to write this but I will do my best to write what I can!

So, we were blessed to have another baptism this past Saturday for ANOTHER abuelita named Esperanzy Young. This was an amazing baptism for many reasons. Here's the story:

So we went by on Monday to go teach her about the Plan of Salvation. She wasn't at her house so we called her to see what had happened. She told us that she was still taking care of her sick sister and, not only that, she was making plans to move back down to Mexico this week. She proceeded to tell us thank you for all the things we had done for her and that she will try and contact the church when she got back down. Well, WE proceeded to tell her that she still had a baptismal date for that Saturday (10.Abril.2010) and that we were still willing and would continue to teach her as if she was going to be baptized on that day. We asked if she was willing to go through with her commitment with Heavenly Father and she told us "Yes!" From that point on, things went crazy. The next day (Tuesday) we taught her both Lesson 2 and Lesson 3 in an hour visit (she had already had these lessons in the past so most of it was just a review). Wednesday we taught her ALL of Lesson 4 (The Commandments). Thursday she had her interview and passed. Friday we had our baptismal prep lesson and Saturday at 7:30 PM she entered the waters of baptism. The service was fantastic! We had a lot of support from the ward and we had our recent convert of 3 months, Hno. Carlos Islas (Remember him? :D) perform the ordinance. The spirit was incredibly strong and, between the 4 missionaries in our ward we had 7 Investigators and 4 Recent Converts in attendance. All in all, it was one of the best baptisms I have attended!

The rest of the week went really well. We had great support from the ward members and we were able to find a few more new investigators to teach. I feel like, recently, we have been walking in some pretty slow tar. Now however I feel like we are starting to reach the firmer ground. I am so very grateful for having a loving Heavenly Father that allows us to exercise our patience. Sometimes we aren't very good at it but if we endure our trials well we will always come out better than we went in.

We also had our interviews with President Beck this past Tuesday. The meeting went very well and I left feeling very spiritually fed (the best way to describe it, I felt like I had just come of a Spiritual, "Mexican" style meal).

This week marks the last full week of this transfer! Come next P-day I will be reporting the transfers that will happen come next week! But, before that, we will be having a Valley Wide Zone Conference on Thursday with Elder Paul V. Johnson of the 70. I am really looking forward to this and am excited for the knowledge that we will gain.

Well, like I said, I didn't have a lot of time to write and I need to close. I hope that you all had a great week last week and that the same great things will happen this week as well. Know that you all are in my thoughts and prayers and are loved. Enjoy the pictures and until next week iHasta Luego!

   

"To Fulfill All Righteousness": The baptism of Esperanza Castro Young. We had to fight to get this one to go through but, in the end, it became one of the most spiritual baptisms I have ever attended!