Sept 14, 2009-BAUTISMO CON MANGUERAS

well we had a crazy fin de semana here in the ZONA CARTAGENA. we had 7 bautismos planed but 4 fell through, lots of crazy stuff like apotstate members, missing family members, and catholic preists stopping by to tell the investigator that if she gets baptized she´s going to limbo. but the 3 that did get baptized was a great. Me and elder vega passed by at 6 30 to make sure everything was going to plan but there was about 5 inches of water in the fount, no what we were hoping for. The member who the missionaries asked to make sure it got filled though he had other things better to do, too bad it was the bishop. but anyways all the members started showing up to see the baptism and saw that we lacked water so we all started bringing hoses from the neighbors houses and filling the fount with water. In the meantime the family showed up with the wife set that she wasnt going to get herself wet (when i had spent one hour in interview with her the day before showing her that she was ready). so all the relief society started giving her attention and she changed her mind. we finally got the fount filled and we started the baptism and it was great. the only other hitch was that the missionary who was baptizing was really short and the dad of the family is a very tall large black man so his knees kept coming out (also the misionary is a lefty so i had to stop him mid prayer so his RIGHT hand was to the square). Finally the big man just kneeled down so the water went up to his chest and it was alot easier for the little chileno. Sunday la familia herrera didnt come to church and they dont seem quite as happy to see us but we planed really hard for the lesson we are going to teach tonight so im praying hard. but we also found another family who are really great and they cameto church, the dad drives one of those crazy jeeps i told you about so he drove it to church and it was great. also in church i got asked to give a talk at the end of church in the middle of the sacrament by the 1st consuler, so i got up there and let er rip on refencias and how if someone doesnt give missionarys referncias they dont have alot of faith, but i did it with lots of love and shared Dyc 15 6 which is always a goodie. all in all everything is pretty much normal here in Colombia, that was the 4th bautismo ive had filling it by buckets and i dont think it will be the last, that was the 3rd random sunday talk and i dont think it will be the last. But i love it all.thanks for all your support and prayersELDER LARSONp.s. next week is CAMBIOS so ill write you TUESDAY!!!!! NOT MONDAY!!!! SO DONT WORRY!!! I havent even seen someone fromthe FARC for 3 weeks..... JUST KIDDING.