Dec. 10 - 16, 2019
Tuesday -
The whole day consisted of district council in Sta. Ana and then finding. That was basically all.
Wednesday -
Just another day of finding. We've been trying to use the new technique of finding taught to us at zone conference. It's been kind of slow but we're just gonna keep chugging along. At the end of the day the zone leaders interviewed our three baptismal candidates who all passed with no problem.
Thursday -
I had exchanges with Elder Smith who's still in training. He was fun to spend the day with. We also find one new person that we'll probably try and return and teach. She fits the criteria for our missions new people finding technique. We talked to 26 new people the whole day.
Friday -
We basically did baptismal preparation the first half of the day. This included cleaning and filling the baptismal font, creating a program, etc. After we did that we did, as you might have guessed, more finding.
At the end of the day I did studies and finally finished reading the New Testament which was awesome. It's definitely an underused piece of scripture in the church at times.
Saturday -
Now this was the focus of the week really. This was our three baptisms. We baptized Christopher Javier, Mae Albonida, and Joy Rosete. I'll give a little information about each of them now.
Christopher is a 15 year old boy that is doing really great and reads everything we tell him too. When we first met him we were focusing on teaching is 18 year old brother but as we continued teaching it was obvious he was interested too. As time went on we realized Carl (his brother) couldn't be baptized because he can't attend church frequently because of his schooling so our attention shifted to Christopher. It took a while to get him to church because he's shy but once we got him there the first time he went four times in a row without being compelled. He also has made lots of friends with the youth and is doing great.
Mae is a 21 year old girl and is probably the most 'legit' of all three of our baptisms. We met her on the street and simply invited her to church. Without ever having taught her she attended church and brought her aunt Joy (we'll talk about her later) along with her. She then attended all four times as well. She also has done amazing on reading the Book of Mormon and can explain what she reads in depth every time. She also understands the doctrine we teach her very well. She also asks great questions frequently. She was actually also baptized on her birthday.
Joy is 18 years old and really just seemed to tag along with Mae. She also understood things very well and was always happy to have us over. She also has lots of fellow-shipping at church as well.
Interesting side note for the day. After the baptism while we did more finding we met a guy with polio which was crazy.
Sunday -
Finding.
Monday -
We tried to go to a waterfall this morning. It was pretty. You'll see pictures.
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