This week was really good. We had the baptism of destiny of course and that went super well. WE also have started finding Hispanics around here, and we know where most of the Hispanic pockets are. We also know just about all the ward members here.
Sunday we had church and we had 7 people show up for church. The 5 regulars and Katie and Kelly which have become pretty new and consistent since we have been here. Katie was pretty cool because she told us she probably wasn't going to go, so we drove all the way to laurens, knocked on her door and explained why she needs to go to church and testified that if she is ever feeling the adversary working on her, then she needs to read the book of mormon and she will feel the power therein and want to do the right again. We then left and and church she said that she read from the Book of Mormon after we left and she knew that she needed to go to church and there she was. Then after church we had a linger longer and we had a bunch of ward members connect with Katie and Kelly, and after that we had a lunch to celebrate Gail's (Recent convert, mom of ronnie) birthday at the Couches. That was a bunch of fun and I ate like crazy forgetting that we had a dinner that night at the Payans. Then at the Payans we were fed tacos and I ate like crazy there as well and almost died afterward.
Monday we had pday where we talked with the parents and had a weird time with that. Afterwards we saw the Martinez and talked with them for a bit and then we had dinner with the Suarez family. The Suarez family are from Colombia and have a daughter and have been in the states for 9 months. They fed us Arepas, which are very similar to gorditas from mexico and they are very good.
Tuesday we had zone conference which was really good. President there also told us that we were not allowed to call siblings, but if siblings just happen to be on a conference call when we call, then there is nothing we can do about that. Then after zone conference we met with destiny and went over the baptism interview questions and made sure everything was all good. Then we had 2 lessons with ward members where we followed up on commitments left to them 2 weeks prior about thinking about someone to share the gospel with.
Wednesday not much happened except destiny passing her baptismal interview.
Thursday we weekly planned and had dinner with a part member family which was good as well.
Friday we had a great day planned and we were super excited and then we drive all the way down to clinton for our lesson with Kelly and she cancelled on us, and then 2 others cancelled on us too. But we still had a dinner with the torres family and katie which went really well. Then we made the programs for the baptism the next day and our day was over.
Saturday we had the baptism and it was great. We had like 60 or 70 people turn out for it. Destiny only needed to be baptized 3 times before she nailed it (the water was super low though). And so it was really good and destiny seemed to love it and everyone was so loving to her and it turned out great. Then afterwards we went to lunch to celebrate and me and elder powell got like food poisoning from it and we were completely and utterly sick the rest of the day.
Sunday was church, we had a good church this week as well lots of people were there. Destiny got confirmed, Kelly went to church all though Katie was working.We had an all around good time there. Then afterward we went and knocked in a trailer park and we found Francisca from mexico and she was pretty interested. During our lesson some baptist dudes came up and interrupted us and started talking about there church, but all in english so she didnt even understand, so we ended up translating for the dude, and then he was like wait are you guys from a church, and we were like yeah, and he was like oh this is awkward and gave them their baptist cup and left. So that was pretty weird but whatever so is the life of a missionary. Then we went and had dinner with bishop and his family, they served us handmade tacos and it was very good, I ate 6 giant tacos and 2 rice krispy treats. Then we went way out to Hickory Tavern and went by a part member family that bishop reccomend that we go and see, and then we went to another part member famiy after that.
And that was this week.
Elder Bertoch
I dont have the baptism picture we need to get it from a member
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