This week has been stuffffed with stuff. We are eating a ton of piña and really tasty food. We also are running around all over the place and visiting as many people as we possibly can, because we have a ton of people who are learning a lot. We had to chase chickens out of the house, and a couple of dogs came to church for some reason. But also, we had a wedding and baptized a family this week!
So we have permission to go to Walmart on pday, which isn´t actually in our mission but is really really nice. So when we go there, we have to put our backpacks and stuff in their little cubbies, and they give us a little card with a number on it so that we can come and reclaim them when we´re done shopping. But...for some reason they moved my backpack into a different cubby, and moved my Book of Mormon into the cubby of some random person that was already there. So when we came back, they wouldn´t give me my things and tried to make me give them a card that I never had. I told them all of the stuff that was in my backpack, and the name on it matched the one on my nametag...but they still didn´t really believe me. Finally, they let me have my backpack, but they just would not give me my book. I´m not sure what they wanted from it, but maybe they´ll read it and know it´s true. I laminated it and put pictures and marked it up and everything...oh well. Time to make a new one, because in this mission we always, always carry a Book of Mormon in hand wherever we go.
So this week, we did everything to plan a wedding and a baptism for the familia Gomez. They are extremely poor, so they have never been able to pay for a wedding. But they wanted to get baptized because they know that the church is true and they want to have the guide of the Holy Ghost in their lives. So we payed for everything, and they did it! There´s no baptisimal font in this church, so we went to a river that has naturally heated water from a volcano. They were really really happy to be baptized. I baptized three out of the four of them that were over 8 (Jose and his wife Lesvia, and their daughter Helen), and the other daughter will be baptized probably next week. They also have a baby (Olga) and a three year old (Nanci) and another daughter who is about five (Norma). For some reason they didn´t want to smile for the picture, but they were smiling and laughing before and after. I guess they don´t take pictures very often haha. But that was a really amazing experience, because they really want to follow the example of Christ, and they´ve seen the blessings that come from it. So that was my big happy moment of the week :)
¡Les amo!
-Elder Cloward
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