Week 54!

hey there everyone out there!!!

 

lot's happened this week!!!  lots of blessings and miracles!  first off last monday after  emailing you guys we went home showered and went to the house of Vanessa, Sofìa, and Matìas and we challenged them to baptism for this week and they accepted it!!!  how freaking awesome was that!!!!  we had to talk to them a lot this week to make sure that they were prepared to get baptized and everything.  it was super annoying because we couldn't find out to see if the father of Vanessa could baptize them until friday night because he had to talk to the Bishop  about a few things in his life and the Bishop wouldn't talk to him.  we had to go by the bishop's house like 5 times last week just to tell him that Jos'e wanted that stinking interview and the bishop just kept giving a bunch of excuses that didn't make any scence to what we were saying!  we had the baptismal service on sunday so saturday we were running everywhere trying to have the baptismal interviews, finding baptismal clothes, finding someone to fix the water heater for the baptismal font, and also trying to pass by our other investigatores for the week.  they ended up having super strong testimonies and are reading the scriptures every day and praying also so by the end of the week thay TRULY had testimonies of the restored gospel of Jesus Christ.  i really have learned a lot while being able to witness their conversions and their lives change.  they really have been able to change their lives for the better and i KNOW that they will follow christ no matter what happens in their lives.  it was a little bit tougher for Vanesa to gain that strong answer about the church but i think that having the example of their dad here who's a recent convert from Paraguay really helped her in her questions and her doubts because they told us how much he has changed from the way that he once was before he acepted th gospel in his life.  luckily this week was fast sunday because i had a TON of stuff to fast for to make sure that everything would go well this week.  they were really ready for this baptism yesterday and here are a few pictures of the baptism this week.  the old guy is the dad (Josè), the older woman (Vanessa), and the two kids (Matìas and Sofìa).  oh and the other blessing is that there were a bunch of investigatores in church that we weren't expecting!!!  we were escpecting 4 and we had 8 in church!!!  this week has been filled with blessings really!  and the other picture is of my one year celebration.  haha it was pretty cool and don't worry nothing bad happened!  I PROMISE!!!  oh fun stuff this week i bought 8 Kilos of fruit loops which is about equal to around 18 pounds!  i'm super excited to be able to eat that!  haha they gave me a pretty good deal for it so i'm very proud of my purchase. i can rightfully say that this week was super tiring but definitely worth it to be able to see all of these great changes in their lives.  but hey gotta go!

i hope you all have a great week and lindsey good luck at COLLEGE!!!!

 

love ya,

Elder Atkinson