Hey family and friends! Yep it happened. Archie got baptized! It was such a good feeling. He ended up picking me to do the ordinance and it felt so good to finally get in the water again. Its been a tough last 8 months but it was worth it in the end. Its kind of a funny story of how he picked me to do the baptism. He kept saying he didn´t care who did it but then his wife who has a really strong character overheard and said ¨Nope! It doesn´t work like that. You have to choose.¨ She is a really funny woman. She got mad at him because he forgot to bring a towell to the baptism but I let him know it was alright haha. From what the zone leader told me, he had a really cool interview. When he asked Archie what he felt about making this step of faith and being baptized he said, ¨I just want to be saved.¨ I thought it was a really simple yet powerful answer. The baptismal service went really well. Almost the whole branch showed up! They have been really nice to him. Everybody was taking pictures with him and trying to talk with him. Its a little hard right now because he doesn´t speak spanish but he still has friends in the branch. There is actually one member that speaks english pretty well so they should become good friends. We took some good pictures so I´ll try to send some this week. If not I will send them next week. The problem is where we usually do internet is closed today so I can´t figure it out here.
I also have more news about Ana and Toñi. We challenged them both to baptism and Ana said she is never sure about things like this. We promised her that if she really wanted to know and had faith to receive an answer that the church is true, she would receive it. She said she´ll let us know if something changes. However, Toñi said she is positive that the church is true and she wants to be baptized haha. She didn´t want to set a date last week though because she said she has to change her life to feel prepared to be baptized. We explained that thats what we are her for. To be her guides and help her. She just has a few bad habits she needs to drop. She is a really nice lady though and we´ll see what happens.
I haven´t told all of you about this but every week we go to a nursing home to visit an old paralized man named Lorenzo. I usually feed him, water his plants, and clean his face with a wet towell. Well this week he was kind of grumpy and wasn´t being very nice. He was really bossy and told me to give him some chocolate so I started talking like a character from Spongebob Squarepants in the episode of him selling chocolate. I don´t think he thought it was very funny but I got a kick out of it and my companion did too haha. I learned in the mission if people are being grumpy its always fun to kind of joke around and be happy anyway. Just thought I´d tell you about that haha.
Well everybody I love you so much and i hope you´ve had a great week and that you have another one this week. I love you all and I know this church is true. I know Christ is our Savior and that through His atonement all things can be made right. I love you and I´ll talk to you next week. Adios
I also have more news about Ana and Toñi. We challenged them both to baptism and Ana said she is never sure about things like this. We promised her that if she really wanted to know and had faith to receive an answer that the church is true, she would receive it. She said she´ll let us know if something changes. However, Toñi said she is positive that the church is true and she wants to be baptized haha. She didn´t want to set a date last week though because she said she has to change her life to feel prepared to be baptized. We explained that thats what we are her for. To be her guides and help her. She just has a few bad habits she needs to drop. She is a really nice lady though and we´ll see what happens.
I haven´t told all of you about this but every week we go to a nursing home to visit an old paralized man named Lorenzo. I usually feed him, water his plants, and clean his face with a wet towell. Well this week he was kind of grumpy and wasn´t being very nice. He was really bossy and told me to give him some chocolate so I started talking like a character from Spongebob Squarepants in the episode of him selling chocolate. I don´t think he thought it was very funny but I got a kick out of it and my companion did too haha. I learned in the mission if people are being grumpy its always fun to kind of joke around and be happy anyway. Just thought I´d tell you about that haha.
Well everybody I love you so much and i hope you´ve had a great week and that you have another one this week. I love you all and I know this church is true. I know Christ is our Savior and that through His atonement all things can be made right. I love you and I´ll talk to you next week. Adios
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