Monday, November 16, 2009
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Ok, so I want to try to tell a little more about the stories of the people we baptized at least. Gerardo was the one who would drink like 36 beers a day! His wife Maria is the one who got baptized last week. Friday, we found out that Gerardo went out drinking. We tried to talk to him but he was drunk or hungover or something so it was just stupid. We were really worried that he wouldn't be able to be baptized now but we talked to him with the APs on Saturday and he knew it was wrong and he really did want to change so the APs interviewed him to make sure he was good and he was so he got baptized. The family of four is the Caicedos. They are way sweet. We didn't even really get to teach them that much but they were really sensitive to the holy ghost. Every time we came over they would tell us, "It just feels better when you guys are here." We told them that they could feel that when they read the book of Mormon too and so they did that and they felt it and they knew it was true just like that. They were all really excited for baptism even though we didn't really teach them anything. They just knew it was the right thing to do. The problem was that they hadn't been to church yet. So we got it all set up and then they all of a sudden had to go to Orlando for the weekend. So we got online and found the closest church to them and called the bishop there to get the number of the Elders there so we called the missionaries in the Orlando mission which was kinda weird and got it all set up with them. We were really worried all Sunday because we weren't sure if they were really going to go and there really was nothing more we could do to make sure. But they went to church in Orlando, came back home at like 6 and then got baptized at 7! It was so cool! It really shows me that it really isn't me converting people. It's God and the Spirit that really converts people, I just am kinda there showing it to people but I don't really do much. It's very humbling and it makes me so happy to be in this work.
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