We baptized ABRAHAM

Mon, March 7, 2011 5:20:13 PM

Hahahaha so this week we baptized Abraham.. isn’t that neat? Yea he is a pretty cool guy, he has overcome a whole lot of obstacles in his life to get where he is now. Hna. Cano and I met him one day when Jairo (remember him? He was baptized in January) took us to introduce us to his family. Abraham is his uncle. Jairo was so happy to have his uncle baptized. Jairo walks with us to help bring people to church on Sunday mornings and this Sunday morning he was so thrilled to have his uncle baptized.. He exclaimed that he was sooo happy that his family would soon all be with him there. He truly does feel the spirit in a profound way I think. Abraham bore his testimony in his baptism and said that he knows that from now until the end of his life he knows that he has an appointment every Sunday, which is pretty awesome for a missionary to hear. I am so happy that he has been able to have this thing grow and bloom within him, as lame as that sounds. There is just no other way to describe it really. Pictures will have to come next week I’m afraid because Hna. Garff has them all on her camera and I didn’t have enough time to get them today.

Just so you know, Martin was not able to be baptized this week due to the fact that he wants to be baptized with his friend but we find out tomorrow when the date will be. I hope that I can be there for it.. ! We celebrated his birthday yesterday. Because he has a room full of Disney action figures and stuff, I thought we should get him something to go with it. One day I noticed a fully functional Buzz Lightyear in the street and bought it for him ($7!) and goodness when he saw it along with all the books that we got him (including a huge big print triple and bible and other gospel library books), he was like a kid--just so happy. Also we have been able to build good relationships with a bunch of inactive folks. A lot of people just need someone to talk to sometimes. I am looking forward to have lifelong friendships with these folks.. they are really special to me.

We have also been able to start up in helping a woman build a house... and that’s mostly what we have been doing all weekend. She probably is not going to join the church but we have really enjoyed her company and helping her out. She has exclaimed to us how blessed she feels and says that God sent us here to her in this time because He knew she needed us. God works through the hands of other people. Let’s be those people!