Be Good Examples April 12, 2010

Baptism of Joseph (left hand side)

MY birthday was good, basically felt like any other day but I got to listen to the prophet so that rocked.

This week was kind of hard, One of my investigators, a really cute old guy that is 80 yrs old, who was about to accept a baptism date now doesn't want to have anything to do with the church. We talked about him getting baptized the 1st of May and he said he wants to but wanted to see a baptism first, so I called the Zone Leaders and found out if someone would be having a baptism this weekend, luckily some Hermanas close by had a baptism planned for Saturday. So I told my investigator and got it all planned for us to go and he was super dooper excited. I called the Hermanas and they said the baptism would be at 5, but they didn't know the directions to their church so we planned to meet in front of a grocery store at 4:30. We got to the church at 4:40 and no one was there. NO ONE. They were still filling the font and there was no one. So we sat down to wait, and wait and wait and wait. Finally at 6:40 they started the baptism. And it was the most basura baptism I have ever seen, only one talk, Elders making fun, they messed up the baptism, no testimonies. Needless to say there was no spirit whatsoever. When it finally finished my investigator was really grumpy after waiting 4 hours for nothing. The next day when we passed by him to go to church, he said he couldn't come and wasn't sure when we could pass by to teach him again. I was pretty devastated but I remembered the parable of the sower with the different seeds in different soils, maybe he isn't good soil.

But needless to say, my message this week is that we always need to be good examples to everyone. We never know who is watching and the things we do will affect what they think of the church.

But in better news, I have a baptism this Saturday and another one the next Saturday, so the work is rolling on. I love my companion and I really like my area. Right now I'm in a branch of about 55 people, we meet in a small house. It's kind of fun, reminds me of living overseas. I am in Chorrera, it's about an hour from the capital and is a suburb, like always.

Love you all!!!!
hermy