Okay so this week went by just so fast!! I feel like every week is faster and faster. This whole transfer is about to end and i cant believe it! This week we had some great things happen! And some super spiritual lessons as well!! Also there was some babysitting like always because one elder has a bad mouth and started saying some not so nice things to an elder. And that one elders patience wasn't the highest that day so it was an emergency.... like last week. and the week before.
So lets talk about the good stuff this week!!
We had 2 baptisms on Saturday!!! And they are all actually pretty golden investigators. They are the first time that the original baptismal dates didn't actually fall!! One is named Sindy and the other sandy.. they aren't sisters for those of you at home thinking "oh how clever their mom" just coincidence.
Sindy is the one that said that she wants to be a missionary when she turns 19. But she is a delicate person. We went to visit her on Wednesday and she said that she didn't know how she felt to be baptized because no one in all of her family supports her. they gave her permission and everything but they aren't happy about what she did. I guess her cousin who is her best friend is also the pastor of her old church and he announced in church that she is going to get baptized and now all of her friends just dropped her. And she just cried asking why it had to be so hard to do the right thing and that she doesn't know if its worth it. It was one of those times where you just put the scriptures to the side and just speak from the heart and completely let the Spirit teach. It was so awesome just thinking about all of the life experiences in my life, the lives of my mom and dad and everyone I have ever known and getting to show her those. Elder Avila had a great story about how he got baptized and 3 years later his whole family did as well. but in those 3 years he got yelled at and abused for it. Everyone was just teary eyed and sindy just cried and cried and the best was when we talked about Christ and his sacrifice. I mean it was just one of those lessons that was perfect. We finished and she just said with a big smile that she wants to get baptized. And the day of her baptism. no one came to support her and she cried again but she was just so happy. Sindy is the one next to Elder Avila in the pictures.
Sandy also didn't have anyone there except for her best friend. But sandy is more sassy like Alison and doesn't care what people think so she was just like "what ever, I'm doing this for Jesus and not my mom" it made me laugh a bit how she said it hahaha
My week was just so great for the baptisms but I just feel like we could have done more this week. I'm all for having fun and working butIi feel like this week we just didn't get to work because we had to do like 3 baptismal interviews and divisions 2 times this week. It's just hard being a Zone Leader honestly. I find that we just don't have as much time to work as we did before. And we spend so much money traveling!!!!! We are always so poor. But I talked to my comp and told him that next week no matter what happens we gotta focus more on our area and find more time to work because we really just don't have time to do much there. But there are some great perks to it as well. We get to see how the zone works and teach according to their needs and we can actually see the progress in it because Elder Avila and I don't teach about numbers and stuff but we teach how to actually do the stuff more efficiently!! And our zone is actually having a lot of success!! Just on Saturday alone our zone had 6 baptisms!!! So like in the whole month our zone had like 16!! And there are 16 missionaries so that means that we had 1 baptism for every missionary which is the goal of the mission!! So that part is fun!
I love you all!
Elder Garry
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