1/5/2015

GUUUYS!!! haha it happened. FAITH! haha such a happy week!!! Guillermo didn't end up getting baptized on the 28th because there was some things he needed to understand first. but he did get baptized on Saturday, the 3rd. i gotta be honest... i was pretty convinced i wasn't gonna see a baptism in my first area. but i came. haha just a week and a half before transfers. :) don't worry, i  got lottsa pics.


i really felt this week that if we were gonna have a baptism we should be completely prepared, but everything got SUPER crazy in new years. i don't know how to explain it guys. EVERYBODY was drunk. we even found some member doing some stuff they shouldn't have been. it was horrifying. the whole new years week here is one giant crazy party. and guillermo kept telling us everyday he couldn't visit cause he was busy. it had me super worried that he would start drinking again or something. but finally on Friday we were able to visit with him and he had his baptismal interview. he told us about his super strange desires to change and how he knows that this church is what he has needed. and that every time someone gave him a beer during the week, he gave it to his brother hahahaha. so now we got some work to do with his brother.


but Saturday was his baptism and hardly anybody showed up. but guillermo didn't even care. haha he tried going into the font before we even started because he was so excited. it really made me realize how much i had grown to love him. and all my investigators here. and how much i want them all to be baptized. and how much i love my Savior, and how he has given guillermo this chance to change. and has given us all a way to be better.


 learn to love and accept God and our Savior you guys. it is absolutely amazing what we have been given.


also yesterday was awesome. after church guillermo took us to the hospital to visit his sick mother of 84 years. i gotta be honest, i didn't like being there. hospitals give me sad memories. especially after seeing guillermos mother. she has a lung problem and is breathing through tubes. and her smile brought me to tears when she saw her son. he explained to her that he had been baptized. and now has the holy ghost. he then explained that we were going to bless her. and he told her it would make her better. you guys, guillermo had never seen a blessing for the sick. it was touched on briefly that day during priesthood meeting and he asked if we could give one to his mom. this mans faith amazes me. we gave her the blessing and talked to her about the church she wants to go. and guillermo has now made it his goal to get her there and baptize her himself. its amazing how the faith of others increases ours.


autumn, espero que tu hayas tenido una experiencia como asi. mi fe crecio mucho de èso. soy muy feliz aqui en mi misiòn y tengo animo para saber donde El Señor me necesita en el proximo cambio. te amo. gracias por tu ejemplo. por favor seas feliz tambien. :)


y tambien yo quiero que ustedes sepan que yo he sentido y sè que èsa es la iglesia verdadera. sè que solo la tenemos porque estaba restaurado por medio del profeta josè smith. yo sè que èl vio nuestro padre y su hijo jesucristo y que a traves del poder de dios èl traducio el libro de mormon. sè que ya tenemos la plentitud del evangelio de jesucristo. y ahora es el tiempo para compartirlo.



God is real. and He loves us. Love Him. And serve Him.


"I Know That My Redeemer Lives"
Elder Bigelow