We were blessed to be a part of the baptism of Antonio Saucedo
this weekend, it was Hermana Castro´s first cumplemes on Saturday and even
though I was so busy and stressed out putting the baptism altogether, I didn’t
have time to make her anything but I ended up telling her that her gift from me
to her was a baptism for her first month :)
Everything worked out well too thank goodness because we had
some difficulty printing out the programs about an hour before the baptism too!
I told Pitola to run the errand for me, since I had to stay to finish setting
up, I was trying to work on my pronunciation for my talk that I was giving at
Antonio´s baptism, when Pitola freaked out and told us that the water in the font
was way too hot. We told him that we filled it up that way because we didnt
want it to be cold by the time he got in, the water really wasn’t hot, it was
more like warm, but while it was filling up we had closed the doors and when we
opened it up to check up on it there was so much moisture in the air that it
did feel like a sauna. I told Hermana Castro that we literally are going to
baptize him by fire! We quickly ran the cold water for a couple of minutes and
the water felt better. After we gave our talks and headed for the font, we were
waiting in the sala to watch when Hermana Castro laughed and told me she
heard someone say, "I think the waters a little hot." But when the
doors opened Antonio was there with his collegue Hermano Marco about to be
baptized, it really was remarkable to see this man who I had only known for two
weeks and now he was making the real change that he had been working on for
years before.
Antonio really was prepared for the gospel, sometimes I don’t
really think I did anything except give him an invitation to church. He had been
an example to me really, after he was confirmed on Sunday he went to priesthood
with the Elders and the President asked if there would be any volunteers to go
out on splits with the Missionaries this week and he quickly shot up his hand
and asked, "Can I go?" When I heard this I leaned over to Castro and
said, “That’s our convert.” ;) Really, he’s such a rad guy. I am just so happy
to believe that he will be one of those golden members as well, just after we
leave and years go by...that is what conversion should be.
On this loving Pday, our zone celebrated by making a Columbian
breakfast and playing out on the beach because we completed our goal of baptizing
12 people this month of May, which is historic because Esther is new and so is
Elder Romero. My zone leader is telling us we have to keep this going for as
long as we can. It was pretty awesome to find that we were one of the top zones
in the mission for this week and month. Speaking of which, the past week,
Castro and I made it first in the top ten companionships but I do owe a lot of
that to the help of our zone that took a Monday night to help us find news and
help teach lessons.
This week looks a little crazy too because we are planning
two more baptisms for this Saturday, a man named Gustavo and his daughter Selma
will be getting baptized together. Gustavo has been investigating the church
for 32 years ever since he married his wife who is a member and then suddenly
he finally got his answer. While going over information for his program, we met
the daughter who ended up telling us yesterday that she too had received an
answer and would like to baptized with her dad. Shocked and amazed, Castro and
I got started taking down info, it does feel a little weird only because I feel
like their not my converts because I honestly only taught them a lesson during
the second hour of church, the principles of the gospel with my kid Fidel, but
for some reason after that the wife wanted us to continue teaching and
preparing her husband´s baptism.
Hope you enjoy the pictures from these past two weeks, I
will have more next week too! Love you all, besitos!
Love your
daughter, Hermana Kennedy
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