We did it!

¡Hola todos!

This week was crazy! 

We had the baptism of José and Flor, and by a crazy miracle, Flor´s sister Evelyn decided that she wanted to get baptized too! That was super awesome. But they went through a ton of trials to get there. José ran into some problems at work that made some financial trouble for the family. Flor got sick and we had to give her a blessing. They didn`t really like the missionary who interviewed them. Finally on the day of the baptism, we came to church and the water in the baptismal font was green and full of bugs and grass! We drained it to fill it back up, but it turned out that there wasn`t any water anymore because the young men had broken the water system in a sketchy overnight activity they had. But through everything, José, Flor, and Evelyn stayed strong and were baptized on Saturday! We had to go all the way to Santa Lucia and take the people with two trips in a bus. It was a beautiful service, and they were all really happy. We all were grateful to be able to see the family choose to follow that commandment of God. On the way back, the bus could only do one trip, so we stuffed everyone in there except us, without knowing what we would do. We just started walking, and by some crazy miracle the Stake President was passing by in his car and gave us a ride all the way back to Siquinalá. God takes care of his missionaries. 

We were walking down the street one day, and we bumped into someone my companion had been teaching in his old area in Escuintla! He hadn`t been able to progress much back then because of a lot of problems that he was going through there, but now he lives here and he`s doing way better! He has been reading the Book of Mormon that Elder Hoskins left with him, and he really loves it. He told us that he and his wife want to go to church, and if they feel it in their hearts, they are going to get baptized too. It was awesome because my companion had already started the work with him, and after leaving for a while, the guy had prepared himself to really learn a ton and change his life, and now we get to keep teaching him. We`re excited to see how that goes.

Today we took the zone of 14 missionaries to Guazacapan to drive through this auto-safari zoo place. We got to drive right up next to all of the animals, and it was a really cool experience. There was also a normal zoo part afterward. We had a lot of fun and saw some really awesome and funny things.

Love you guys!

-Elder Cloward