Hi Everyone!
This week I had my baptisms!! It
was such a good experience to see how the choice of being baptized has
influenced both the families! The inactive mom has attended 4 Sundays in a row
now, and the other parents have a new sense of urgency to get married so they
can be baptized and eventually sealed as a family!
It was such a neat experience but the
situation was kind of funny. First off, the font takes 3 hours to fill, and since we
have to travel 45 mins to the stake center to use the font, we had to sit around
for three hours and after all this time of always doing something, it was
really weird to have nothing to do! Luckily I brought a Liahona to read or else
I probably would have died. Also, we couldn´t find the plug for the font, so we
had to shove a plastic bag down the drain to try and stop the water. It kinda
worked, but Juan Miguel is really tall and so his knees popped out of the water
so I had to redo his baptism. Somehow I remembered all the names and we ended
with the youngest kid Dioveni. He is 8 years old, and after they shut the doors
to the font we were walking up the stairs, he noticed that nobody could see him
because the doors to see into the font were shut so he jumped from the top
stair and started swimming around in the font. It probably wasn´t exactly
appropriate but I was laughing so hard there was nothing I could do about it!
The next day they were confirmed
and again, there isn´t any way to describe the feeling of joy I had! It kinda
gave me a new view of Moses 1:39.
I´ve seen the video “Share the gift” in Spanish and it’s
really good! We encourage investigators to go watch it, but nobody here has
computers so I don´t know how many actually go to an internet place and watch
it.
I´m literally always hot, but this week it
rained and the temperature might have dropped below 80, so you could say its
winter here too! The mosquito’s aren´t too bad, but I always have at least one
bite somewhere on me.
Quick story, I saw my fist
voodoo thingy the other day! Haitians were playing bongos and doing this weird
creole chant around this fire with candles around it and they were throwing
sawdust in it to make it flash and this one guy was like having a seizure and
the spirit was gone and it was super sketch. When we walked by an hour later
after the lesson everyone was gone but there was a wooden cross dressed up like
a person with three candles in front of it. Crap is weird here!! I love it!
We do service projects about
once a transfer with the zone and whenever the ward organizes one or someone
needs our help.
I got your package and I really
enjoyed decorating for Christmas and my companion enjoyed taking a nap before
weekly planning haha. We have the little train set up and we wear our Santa
hats during planning every night haha. I really liked reading the notes from
everyone, so thanks for that! I hope everything is good back in Utah!
Things are going good and if
everything works out we should be having at least two more baptisms in the next
month! I’ll tell you more about them next week when we firm up the details!
It was such a good
week!
Elder Harsh
No comments:
Post a Comment