Hey guys!
This week was nuts! Yeah that was Carmen and two of her kids that we baptized. My week was super good. The weekend was so crazy stressful though.. I’ll get to that later. We actually did have snow again. It was kinda like snow rain though. Kinda weird. We had a super freezing cold front for a few days. It was so cold... not used to it. What’s an insta pot? Transfers are next week. I’ll find out Saturday if I’m leaving or not. It’s pretty 50/50. I could stay or go. I am 50/50 on my feelings about it too. I don’t care if I go or stay. Both have their pros and cons. We just baptized three of our investigators so right now we only have one solid one and a bunch of potentials. I’ve been sick too. My body has really taken a toll lately! I feel like an old man. My joints are terrible. I’ve had a slight cough and runny nose for a while now.
Last Monday was actually pretty boring. We did our morning routine with the English Elders. We tried to eat somewhere but everywhere was closed... we live in the rich part so I guess that’s why. As soon as we went down to the ghetto everything was open haha. We went to the church and played ping pong. We had some ping pong tournaments and I came in second place. I’m pretty good. You all should get a ping pong table.
Tuesday we ate with the Rodriguez family and they taught me some Mexican dances it was super fun. We had mutual too and that was cool. We played chair soccer.
Wednesday was an interesting day. At around 2 we got a call from Elder Montesino down in Denver harbor saying that he broke his ankle. He’s in a bike area and needed a ride all the way up in Kingwood. We were in the northern part of our area so we were really far...we picked them up and drove up to Kingwood for his appointment at 5. We got there at 4:50. He did his thing, luckily it was just sprained, and then went to dinner with the mission nurse. Then we drove all the way back down to Denver harbor and took them to a pharmacy. Then to their house. After that we drove all the way back to our house in Summerwood. We got home at 9:45... that’s a long time to drive. I was driving and drove 130 miles that day haha... I drew a visual representation for you guys and will send the picture. In the picture the black is our beginning, driving to get him and then to Kingwood. The red line is our return trip. It was long and tiring...
Thursday was just as nuts. We had a lesson with Carmen and we decided to focus on the kids because she wanted to wait to be baptized so they could understand. So we taught them the restoration and after Daniel, the boy, told us he wanted to be baptized. We were all shocked. So then Carmen did the unthinkable. She told us that she wanted to be baptized with her kids because they were ready. We pulled out a calendar and I tried to set the date for the 13th but she insisted on this Saturday. We said okay.. that means we had two days to pull it off. Afterwards we made some calls, set up a Facebook event and everything. Super stressful
Friday we were scrambling all day long. We had to go over and teach Carmen’s kids everything before they were baptized. We had a mega lesson that lasted for forever. Elder Riches came with and did the baptismal interviews right there too to save time. We made pupusas though! After we set up the baptismal program and invited everyone. It was nuts. We were super stressed out.
Saturday we finally had the baptism. We had a hard time finding them baptismal clothes but finally got some the right size. Lots of people came and it turned out really well. They loved it. The spirit was super strong. We had cookies afterwards and that was a huge stress reliever to have it over with. It’s not easy setting up a baptism for three people in 2 days.
Sunday was really good. We had church at 11 now. Carmen and her kids were confirmed and they were awesome. We had a good second and third hour too. After church we had dinner and tried some people. That weekend was crazy.
My week was good. Hope y’all have a good one. Love y’all
Here is the visual representation of our drive on Wednesday |
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