This week was great! We are teaching a lot of people that we are helping to be baptized in December and are hoping for a Christmas Miracle with 4 baptisms. This area is awesome for me, because there is so many people and so many possiblities here. And we are working hard to do all we can to find, teach, and reactivate. This past Saturday, we were able to have the baptism of a women called Rosa. She was an old investigator, but because of health problems she couldnt get herself to church. But now she was able to go and get baptized. I was able to baptize her, my first in the mission! It was a great experience! Now, we are hoping and praying that she can continue strong in the her health and in the Gospel. We are doing very well in our area now and are seeing many miracles from our hard work and diligence.
Spiritual Experience of the Week: This week, we had a huge miracle! We have been working with an old investigator that other missionaries had dropped. His name is Maycol(Michael). He is a Bolivian who came here to find work. He has been living with his aunt and cousin, who are less active members. He is very believing in God and was going to a church in Bolivia that can only be found there. The missionaries dropped him because, he wasnt doing the commitments like reading and praying. And the same with us was happening. He just wasnt having faith and we were trying to help him recognize that to have it, he needed to read and pray. We had come to the decision that we were going to drop him. So we called him to set up a time to come by one night to give him the talk. And he told us that he had read what we had left him about faith in the Book of Mormon and that sincerly he felt a great happiness while reading and knew that it was true. The next visit with him, we had a very spiritual lesson with him and invited him to be baptized on the 12 of December! Now he is progressing very well, came to the baptism of Rosa, and to Church! Everyone has their time to accept the Gospel like Maycol and we were so glad that he is doing so well.
Scripture of the Week: Jacob 7-9. I love these scriptures that talk about repentance, faith, and sharing the gospel. That through faith, we can use the Atonement and be forgiven. And when we have a better understandment of the Atonement in our lives, and actually use it, we will have more desires to share it.
Funny of the Week: So this week, we found a man that was living in poor conditions and doesnt have much. But he had his Bibile and a little instrument thing that he blew into. He wasnt very enthusiastic and wanted to sing a song to us. Haha he was so animated and excited the whole time dancing a little and singing a song about Jesus. The sight was so funny and we enjoyed his little preformance. Then we sang a hymn to him after. And as soon as we finished he had already memorized the words and tune and did another dance and song to the hymn! haha he was a funny character.
Fact of the Week: Here the stores are all separated. If you want to buy meat, you could to a meat store individually run, or bread, or fruits and vegatables. So its quite the process to buy food here. Also, there are mini convenient shops called kioscos that are found on every street that people put up to sell whatever.
Love you all, thanks for your support
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Elder Trent
We had a baptism! Guess what I did the baptism too! my first! It was different though, because she is a biig lady, but three people and two chairs later she was baptized.
Happy Thanksgiving! Missionary-Gangsta Style
Yes, we eat a looot now, a lot of times there is juice or some sort of small things that people give us in the lessons as well. We just make our own breakfast and have member meals everyday except on pdays.
Still dont have dinner but im used to it now, but sometimes at like 8 we have empanadas or pizzas at a less active lesson or something. But yes we are always eating. Im trying not to gain weight and so far im doing alright haha.
