well this week was a special one, I had a wonderful
adventuer to tell.
okay, so this week i had an unexpected baptism! His name
is Hno: Juan Eudez Araníbar. El es muy bueno. but he actually is very sick. He
has brain tumors and had recently had a stroke. Which we all know how bad that
can be from our experiences with aunt vicky... But that is really the only sad
part about his story. Well we first taught him back in january. which was a
pretty long time ago, not. but when we first started to teach him he wanted
nothing to do with us, and like missionaries seem to always do is that we
talked about baptism the first visit, telling him how we were the only true
church and how we were the only ones with the authority to do it. He did not
accept our message telling us taht he was baptized in the catholic church
(babilonia) and that it was good enough for him, that he
never wanted to change. We accepted his decision but we had the determination
to come back and teach him more. We left a folleto with him and told him to
read it. hoping that he would, we got back the next time and he was there, we
found his wife and realized that she was a menos activo. She immediately
started out helping us with him and being willing to read, because he cant. so
she helped us out a ton. But taht lesson he had the desire to end the lesson
with a prayer (which he did not know how to do). So, he started in his
progress, after having the attack of the stroke His desire to listen grew a
little bit more, he had the same feeling that we did where he might not live
much longer. we gave him a chapter in the Book of Mormon 2 Nephi 31 to read, he
read it and the next visit he had read it and wanted to be baptized. this was
in the 3rd week of Febrero so that was sometime ago, becuase he has health
problems he could only asist the church once since that day always going to
argentina, or having to stay at home por causa de dolor. So last week in email
my companion talked to presidente about him, we expected to get the response
this week. but wednesday during an intercambio (companion exchange?) i got a
call from presidente. he talked to me
about our investigator, i told him of the change that we had seen, and he told
me after fighting with himself in his own words, which was funny to hear on he
phone, he told me¨and i quote, Élder, Bauticele este Sábado!¨ i just said,
Gracias Presidente! Voy a hacerlo!¨ so we went to his house thursday, friday,
and finally found him friday in the evening. we taught him what he needed to be
taught to pass his entrevista, then he had it saturday in the morning (side
note: he has tumors, which makes him forget a lot, he calls
us the moreno and rubio he doesnt even know our names, but he remembers
everything we teach him about the gospel. rubio means im blond btw, and im not
even blonde) we got to his baptism I had to help him in the water with my
companion then had him sit in achair in the water because he cannot use his
left leg, and we baptizwed him like that, but it was funny the water pump broke
for the bautism font, so we had to fill it with 5 gallon buckets from a poso
outside, (pozo means
well) que bueno no?! but everyting went well, he was
baptized and confirmed and now a memember of the church. I am very grateful to
have helped him come to God and make this sacred covenant with him. that is
pretty much everything that happened in my week, pretty eventful if you ask me,
but im super stoked, cause we are working with 3 other families and a joven
that is getting ready to be baptized in two weeks. im certainly happy, and know
that you guys are doing just fine, I hope you are all too, well, love you guys,
My companion says hi, and thanks for the support. and dont worry, chocolate
m&ms dont melt, ¨dont worry they have a hard candy shell¨ ¨your heads has a
thick candy shell,¨ ¨shut up richard¨. and with that note im out!
love yall,
corban
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