Mariani's Baptism
Let’s
see, early in the week something scary happened. We had just walked past a
street we were probably 30 or 40 yards past, when right behind us we heard three
gun shots. We turned around and a guy had got shot in the leg. Everyone started
screaming and ducking for cover and we took off! It was super sketchy! I about
peed my pants. Luckily we weren't 15 seconds slower.
Saturday
we had the baptism for Fransisco! It went great. I gave a talk and played the
piano. The power went out for about 2 minutes and I was afraid that it was going
to ruin everything but luckily it all turned good and now Fransisco is a member
of the church. He is way awesome! In the first lesson he was smoking a cigarette
and now he has completely given it up. He has changed so much. Also next Saturday we have another baptism for
Mariani.
Ok
as for interesting things this week I have almost gotten eaten by 3 dogs! The
first was huge and would have torn Elder Tirado and me to shreds. It was
growling and we froze. Its owner thankfully came and saved us though. The other
two actually chased me. One was small and so I just kicked it and it left me
alone the other was well... it was medium size and it chased us but we got away
:) I felt like a real missionary ;)
So
the mission office is out of everything except restoration pamphlets and a few
more Book of Mormons. Anyways so we got some of the Book of Mormons and Elder
Tirado and I were teaching a lesson and we gave one away and then we asked her
to look up a scripture and it turns out the copies had been printed upside
down!!!! I had just read a quote from Amberlee about how god works with
imperfect people all the time and he deals with it and so should we, but this
was just an example that our church isn't perfect! On the bright side I kept one
of the BOMs for myself that was upside down :)
Today
we went to a national park here. It’s called Parque Mirador Norte or something
like that... it was really beautiful but while there I got fried like a
lobster!! I thought I was used to being in the sun but nope. Our whole zone was
there and we played volleyball and Frisbee and such. It was great.
Thanksgiving
was great! We ate out after District Meeting like usual so that was good and
then I went on my last exchange with Elder Tirado where we got our favorite
mango drinks and then went to a family home evening and they gave us cake so it
was great! I missed being with the whole family but I still enjoyed myself
here.
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