Hello all in this lovely last week of October,
First off, happy birthday Brittany and Brandi! The
murder mystery night looked like tons of fun! ha you guys sure go all out.
Loved the costumes, yes Brandon was pretty hilarious. My week was pretty good,
went by really fast. Cant believe October is almost over, the year is just
about over as well. haha.
This week we had divisions with the assistants,
that means with Elder Rodriguez. He managed to finagle the divisions on his
birthday so that was fun. haha. I really loved working with him. It makes such a
difference when you get along so well with your companion. We were in his area
and even his investigators noticed the difference, and said we are a really
good companionship. haha. Thursday morning at 7 president called and said a new
missionary had escaped so we had to run all over the city to all the big bus
stations trying to find him, but we never could. He showed up in his house in
Veracruz a few days later so all is good, but that was a fun experience.
The best part of the week was Jose and Martha's
baptism. Ahh it was such a process to finally dunk them. We have had lots of
difficulties but we were able to overcome them all. On Wednesday they told us
they didn't feel ready, and Martha hadn't been able to drop the last few
cigarettes she had been smoking. But we talked about the baptismal covenant
reading D&C 20:37 and the Saviors invitation in 3 Nephi 9 to come unto him
NOW so that he can heal us, and they committed to be baptized on Sunday, and
stop smoking from that moment. The doctors had told her that it wouldn't be
good to stop smoking so abruptly but I said I don't care what the doctors say,
trust in the Lord and his promises, and everything is possible. She stopped
smoking, they both passed their interviews and were ready for Sunday. Then
Sunday at 7 in the morning they call us and said that they didn't feel ready and
good about it. Ahh I didn't know what to think. We told them to take all their
things and we would talk in the church. When we were there Martha said that she
was gonna be baptized, but Jose said no, not yet. We shared a message but I didn't want to pressure him. Martha was sad about it, but by the time we left
sacrament meeting Jose came up to us and said ok I want to be baptized now. Who
knows what happened but everything turned out good, and the service was super
good. I baptized Martha and E Chacon baptized Jose. I was really happy after
hearing their testimonies about how grateful they are for all that we have done
for them. I love seeing those converts that I can look back from when we
knocked on their door contacting til their baptism. Love it.
I feel like that was all we really were focused on
this week. haha This week our zone did really good with baptisms. We are the
number 3 zone of the mission for baptisms this month. boo yah. Being the
smallest zone in the mission, that hasn't really achieved anything in the past
makes that feel really good.
Well I hope you all have a super great week, and a
happy halloween! So Mom and Dad will you be in Florida when I write next week?
Sounds like it, have fun with that.
Peace and blessings!
Elder Elgan
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