Bunas familia,
A super weekend with two more baptisms! We were blessed to baptize the daughter of the man we baptized last week (maria luisa) and a single man who teachs at the Collage here (Anwar Pertuz). The wife of Leonardo (and the mom of maria) was baptized when she was 14 but went inactive when she was 16 (thats why when maria kept coming to church by herself we taught her DAD too not just a 14 year old girl like some missionaries like to do). So now the whole family who can be baptized is baptized and there is a new family in the ward, they were even EARLY to Maria Luisa´s confirmation Sunday!! Anwar was a kick to see baptized because first of all he gave us a HUGE scare and wasnt in his house all Saturday and his phone was off. WE passed by every hour and called his phone every 30 mins to see what he was up to but we just couldnt get a hold of him, we even got yelled at by his neighbors because we jumped his fence to knock on the door because he left a Light on so we thought he might have gotten home. Finally 6 :30 came around so we had to g oto the church knowing we did all that we could do and just had to trust in the Lord (we even found a abandoned house and prayed really hard). Well we got to the church hoping and hoping (that night was Colombia verses Argentia soccer game and thats BIG temptation for Anwar) and as we walk in guess who was chatting away with the Bishop ANWAR. I almost karate chopped him, he told us he´d been waiting for 15 mins and had actually been at the church at 6:45 in the morning because he thought the baptism was at 7 in the morning. And he couldnt understand why we were extra sweaty and smelly (it was due to the extra running and praying in dirty abandoned houses). But everything went well he got baptized and i dunked him extra deep for making us so worried and also because before i baptized him he kept trying to make the sign of the cross until i told him that definatly wasnt needed to cleanse him of his sins.
Also getting Maria Luisa to be excited about her bapitism was a challenge this past week. She has alot of friends who arent too cool with mormons so she was having a hard time at school. But as we were teaching here i was prompted to use alma 36.3 and it was completely PERFECT. I had her put her name in for helaman (and change son for daughter of course) and she loved it and was so happy so fast. With this family i´ve really seen how the Spirit just makes people happy, they are just happier now and i´ve seen in lessons with them how they change during the lesson. This kind of experience has happened with the BoM before and its clearly a fulfillment of D&C 84:85. Its just been great to see some EXITO here because as you might remember when i first got here there were 4 investigadors and they all fell through in 2 weeks. As Sister Laruen Bang put it we do alot but the spirit does so much more, hearing their testimonies after the baptism i was so surprised at the depth of their testimonies, it was clear that even though i´m the senior comp here in my area i´m most certainly JUNIOR to the one whos really teaching my investigadors through me.
Prom looked like fun i´m glad Kalan actually won something worth winning after all the hours mom has put into that activity. I´m still debating if i want you to send me pictures of you all hiking in Yosemite i´m afraid it might be too much (just kidding send me them). Enjoy the summer and breaks.
love you all and thanks for the prayers,
Elder Larson
p.s i always have a long shirt on because i always take pictures on P-days and thats the day i use my long sleeve shirt because its the only one clean by then, dont send shirts i can by ones here for way cheaper
p.p..s the rain has come and its a bit cooler which is nice, just mud happens and the sewers dont handle it well , but i like cooler.
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