On Wednesday, I experienced my first companion exchange. I was sent to Amatitlan to work for a day with Hna Saavedra. She was nice, and I learned a lot, but I missed my area and my Sol!
So, miracles. Milagros. We have had miracles left and right this week. The first one you are not going to believe.
1. Gerardo. Yeah, the guy we dropped because he wouldn´t stop drinking. He is getting baptized this Sunday! Out of the blue two days ago, he showed up to church!He realized that he felt different without the gospel, and that he was ready to make changes. Last night we committed him to baptism this Sunday and I nearly cried. We are getting him a blessing for strength in his addictions tonight, and an added blessing is that he has been sick to his stomach, so he can´t drink anyways!
2. My other first baptism is happening this Sunday as well! Keller is 8, and is so excited about being baptized. We went last night to ask his mom to sign his papers, and she said no. I almost died on the inside. So we kept talking to her and she said Y E S. Ahhhhhh!!!!!!
3. We have to have 12 lessons a week with members and 12 without every week. Well, this week we had 24 with, and 9 without, and 5 less active lessons! The members were head over heels trying to help us. SO awesome, because they really aided in the progression of some of our investigators.
The bees down here are insane. Like, super-natural space bees. They are HUGE, and totally black. Building a nest on a roof is not good enough for them. Neither is a tree. No, these bees feel it necesarry to BORE HOLES IN CONCRETE WALLS AND ROCK TO LIVE IN. I´m not sure, but I feel like a sting from one would probably kill you.
I haven´t mentioned this yet, but my mission president lived in MN for 3 years when he was a teenager! His dad was the Minneapolis Minnesota mission president in the early 80s! I told him exactly where I grew up and he knew where I was talking about.
Anyways I love you all and I am having such a wonderful time down here!
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