October 28

David's baptism

 

Hello, hola, bonjour, whatnot.

hahaha okay ANOTHER crazy week!! First off... DAVID GOT BAPTIZED!!!! It was crazy, we met him on the 13th and he got baptized on the 26th!! We had to teach him everything before Friday the 25th so he could be interviewed. We finished teaching him everything he needed to be taught before baptism literally minutes before he had to be interviewed! It was madness. But a miracle! He already was living the gospel standards and everything doctrinal that we explained, he readily accepted and prayed and felt like it was true! 2 weeks ago, I didn´t even know David existed and now he´s a priesthood holder preparing to go to the temple! Its remarkable, we really had nothing to do with his conversion process, we came in at the very end just to brind him the means of coming unto Christ. AMAZING!!!

Also, IT RAINED ALL THIS WEEK!! I was in heaven. I missed it so much and everytime we were walking somewhere, I had a huge smile on my face! 14 years of complaining about the rain and now I can´t get enough of it! It was nice though, I finally got to use my cute sweaters and such! But today its hot again, so back to the short sleeve shirts!

Hahha so David gave us a reference for this woman, Esperanza. The first time we call her, she just immediately starts calling us "mi cielo" "mi vida" "amor." She´s like a 60 year old Cuban woman and she´s DARLING!!  She is GOLDEN! She asked David to give us her number because she is looking for God in her life. She walked to the capilla by herself, praying for God to direct her and asking people along the way!! She´s so sweet.

So in the madness of getting David ready for his baptism, his interview was Friday night. We were a little hestitant to plan everything really fixed until after he passed, just because of how quickly everything happened. Well Friday night was the Ward Halloween Dance and I think we accidentally attended! We taught him and then had the interview before the dance so he could go, and then we wound up in the library doing the programs during most of the dance, occassionally popping in to ask members to do things:) Hahaha it was killer though! They were playing a lot of American pop music that I know and I just wanted to dance SO BAD!! So we went into the library, closed the door, and danced by ourselves to one song:) hahaha but it worked out and the baptism was beautiful, one of the best ones I´ve been to here (not even trying to brag, it really was, and not even because of us!).

 

Siestas are the best! I hadn´t done it until this week and I´m not sure I´ll ever go back to not sleeping after lunch. We just turn off all the lights in the piso and crash on the couch for like 15 minutes before studies. Also mediodia is the BOMB!!!

Funny story: We went to meet this member, Ana, and her grandsons answered the door, go wide-eyed, then get all like smooth and start winking and trying to flirt with us! Ana came up and shooed them away and I hear them running to their other cousins going "ven! ven! americanas guapas! americanas guapas!" then they all came running to look at the pretty americans at their door. hahah

 

love you all and have a great week!!

hermana folsom