FIRST BAPTISMS
This week was so good, and we saw so many miracles throughout it.
Temple
So, we started out the week waking up at 3 am. Originally it was going to be 4 but there was going to be protests on a road 2 hours away that we needed to cross before they started at 6. So, we got up bright and early and hopped on the minibus. Now I'm gonna jump ahead a little. 6:05 we find ourselves stuck behind the protests. Now you might be asking how this happened. Don't worry I'll tell you. The Hermanas we picked up decided it would be fun to take 45 minutes to get out of their house. With a temple appointment ahead, we needed to find a way to get to Cobán which was about an hour away. So, we jumped out of our bus and walked across the protests and found a public bus. Who knows how but there was literally 100 people on this bus, and this led to some Elders having some very very unfortunate circumstances. Buttt we made it to the temple. And it was so so so good. Gave us breakfast and lunch too. We were all just very grateful we made it. May have even purchased some sleeveless garments there. Haven't tried them yet but I'll let you know next week.
Baptisms
Had my first baptisms this week. We baptized three people this week which was amazing because also it was District Conference, Zone Conference but for branches, so we had church in the Chapel in Salama which is the nicest city in our zone and also has a Utah chapel. So, we had like 400 people there for church and then a ton stayed after for the baptism. Now this only added to my already nerves for my already first non-temple baptism. Can't even lie hands were shaking going into it. But once I got into the water, I was totally calm. Definitely a blessing.
Marcos
So, we also set three more baptismal dates with Marcos and his family but I'm going to focus on Marcos because dude is just such a stud. He lives in this Aldea like 45 minutes from our city Rabinal. And we were talking to him on Friday and told him about the service we had in Salama which is like 2 hours from him, and he would have to wake up at like 5:30 to make it to the church. But when we asked him, he gave us a, “YES I'm GOING to come”. Keep in mind this guy is super old and is in really bad health at the moment. But sure enough 8 o'clock in front of our house to leave for district conference there he was. And he wants to come again next week so we might just push up his baptismal date. But seriously such a milagro.
Thursday
Thursday was literally just blessings on blessings everywhere. Probably one of the best days on my mission so far. Let me preface that in Rabinal, nobody gives you anything. Started out the day going into this ice cream store where they just give us both ice cream and smoothies. And we talked to the lady for a while and she's super cool. Then we were walking to a Cita and this lady we don't know yells at us and invites us into her house and gives us some fire drinks. We leave her house. Less than 10 steps later, this family starts talking to us and we go in and give a lesson. We were mainly talking to the 17-year-old Brayan who we told to pray about what we taught. He texted us later that week saying how good he felt when he prayed btw. But also, on the way out handed us fruit popsicle things. Now on the way to our next appointment we decided to stop and grab a donut from this shop. Yup free and let us pick drinks to go with it. Next tienda we walk into gives us cookies. Then walking to our next cita, we had a lady we contacted call us saying how she wants to meet with us again. THIS DOESNT HAPPEN. Now just when you thought it was over we were walking home stopping to get food and for the first time ever I decided not to get Domino's but go get a burrito from the market. We were joking saying how somebody was going to buy us something. But we get in line and the person in front of us asks what we think is best then proceeds to give them the money and buys our meal. It was actually just the craziest day ever. We had so much success and so many miracles.
Spiritual thought- Doctrine and Covenats 18:15
15 And if it so be that you should labor all your days in crying repentance unto this people, and bring, save it be one soul unto me, how great shall be your joy with him in the kingdom of my Father!
I really like this scripture a lot but when I think about it I like to change it a little bit. A lot of times sometimes I think we get lost in thinking this has to be someone else when in reality I think maybe it just needs to be us. Your greatest convert is yourself. So, when we change the scripture to say:
15 And if it so be that you should labor all your days in crying repentance unto this people, and bring, save it be your soul unto me, how great shall be your joy with him in the kingdom of my Father!
I feel it develops a greater meaning. How great the joy in heaven if you simply can bring yourself. You don't need to change the hearts of everyone you find. Not saying this isn't also great. But bringing yourself is the most important thing you can do. It all starts with yourself.
Love you all and shoutout Corner Canyon golf team on their 3-peat. Love to see it from the boys. Big congratulations.
Elder Wilde
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