Monday, May 25, 2015

Week 12 pics First Baptism!



 Carmen's Family
Carmen First Baptism

Week 12 Area 1

what a good week god loves his children :) haha we baptized Carmen this week i did the baptism wow how scary haha i was scared i wasn't going to pronounce the words right or i wasn't going to remember them so right before the baptismal service i said a prayer that i would remember the words and that everything would go good haha and it did it was super funny because Carmen i guess when she was Little she had a bad experience with water and she hasn't been completely under water for 10 years Ha she was super worried the wáter was going to be cold too and it was haha i felt super happy after i baptized her though i felt the spirit super strong and i felt that god was looking down and smiling and that he was aware of the commitment that Carmen was making we baptized her on domingo mayo 24th it was a happy day
Saturday was also a really good day we did a activity with the youth in the Ward from 10 in the morning to 2 in the afternoon there was probably 15 missionaries and 50 kids and we all met at the church and every missionary was paired with a kid in the church and given a paper with future investigators and with manos activos and the addresses i was paired with a Mexican kid that only spoke español he was 17 years old this was suppose to be a activity for the youth but man i think it was more for me then it was for them i learned alot from this kid haha hes awesome hes the only convert in his whole family so at 10 in the morning we went to search for people to teach just me and him we almost got lost in the metro so that was scary but then when we got to our área we taught to lessons just me and this kid and we contacted 3 people i was super surprised it was a confidence builder for me
i lead the lessons they were Little lessons like 15 minutes but they were good lessons and i contacted people my español was better then i thought I'm pretty sure that if my 1st companion was a mexican i would be fluent already cause he couldn't understand me when i talked english so i was forced to talk español and it was really good for me
we found out last night about changes me and Elder best are staying here the only person that's leaving is Elder mathew's my district leader he leaves tomorrow so that super sad cause i like him alot my goal is in 1 month to be able to speak this language i have a hard time studying the language i love studying the book of mormon but the language is so boring so i need to work on that this month and i think ill be able to speak this language

all around this was a good week and i have really been trying to focus on serving and loving my companion haha because you know me I'm pretty stubborn but I'm working on it that's the good part about missions is i can see my weaknesses and try my hardness to overcome them and its so awesome because i have a perfect example of a perfect missionary Jesuscristo
i love all of you and I'm so proud of you i have the best family and friends your all such a good example to me
#staytruetothegospel
#tenga un buen semana
:)