October 29, 2009

So, for a few huge updates: Arturo is moving this sunday. He found a job on the oil rigs out west. He leaves this sunday. It will be too bad, because he was way close. We're going to give his address to the missionaries out there, so hopefully it wil still work out. He still wants to be taught.

Now for the great and important news. Tanya, Jordan, and Epiphany are getting baptized this sunday, the 25th of October. We went and taught her everything, and she was pretty much waiting to get baptized. Jordan wasn't sure at first, because he didn't want to look like a nerd wearing a white shirt to church. He understood that he wouldn't look like a nerd because his friend Ethan would be wearing one. I get to baptize Jordan and Epiphany. I've never baptized two people at the same baptism. I'm so excited for them. Tanya is so ready. She even gave us everything in her house that wasn't Word of Wisdom approved.

We will are are working with Christine and her son Mason. They have agreed they want to get baptized soon, they just need to do it when it works with everyone's schedules. So, they will probably be in early November. Sweet, right?

Other sweet news- I taught for the first time during a spanish lesson and said the first vision in spanish for the first time as well. Way sweet, eh?

Other fun things that happened... we pulled off a successful family reunion for the zone. It took tons of time. We made shirts for everyone. Family reunion shirts. They all said on the back "Round Rock Family. Please, No Empty Chairs." With out goal of 15 baptisms on the front. Each district had a different color. Then we played some sweet unifying games. My favorite was water balloon ultimate. It's like ultimate frisbee, but with water balloons. It was lots of fun and worked out really well. The zone all knows each other now, and we are a solid zone. All of it tied into our zone meeting too. The very next day was zone meeting and I based everything off of Elder Eyring's talk on Sunday morning. Hence the "Please, no empty chairs." It was a very powerful meeting.

Well, it's been so long since I started this letter that now I get to tell you exactly how the baptism went. It was amazing. So many people came. There was about 25 families that came. Tanya's cousins came, who are members. We even got Christine and her son Mason to come. Tanya's cousin gave a wonderful talk on baptism and the Holy Ghost, then he and his 8 year old daughter sang a song about baptism. The spirit was so strong after that. I have come to find that one of the most powerful ways to bring the spirit is through music. We often sing hymns at appointments to bring the spirit. Then Tanya, Jordan, and Epiphany all got baptized. Tanya stood at the top of the steps and watched me baptize her children and cried. After we had all changed, Tanya bore her testimony. It was pure and sweet. I then shared my testimony, followed by Elder House. There was so much love there and you could feel how much Heavenly Father loves this family.

My car is great. Elder House doesn't have a drivers license, it expired, so I drive all the time. I'm still in a corolla. I'm destined to always have one. :)