Wonderful Baptismal Experiences

Well another week down and another week full of success and stories that will last a lifetime. Its great when a companionship has the same goals, the same drive to get r done, and works well together because that is the key to having success. The Lord has once again blessed our area, our ward, and our companionship; and its sounds that he has once again blessed you all as well.

We ended the week we two more baptisms and one priesthood ordination. We baptized a lady by the name of Basilia who really has shown a lot of faith and courage with coming to know the Gospel. She doesn’t live anywhere near our area, but with permission from President Perez and President Alarcon we were able to teach her here in Los Rosales. In her home she has no support what so ever with the church, she has a friend that lives here in our area so we held the lessons there. She has traveled every weekend for the past month to hear the lessons and attend church. Despite all of her family being against the idea; she was interviewed, baptized, and confirmed yesterday. She was so happy and I’m thankful that the ward has welcomed her with open arms and is helping her feel welcome.

We also baptized MANUEL!!! Do you remember him? He was the one that Elder Pratt and I found on our work visit that went down the tubes but Manuel was the only bit of light we found that day. We have really come a long way with him, we experienced everything from him kicking us out of his house because he didn’t want to listen anymore to him once again inviting us back because he had a change of heart and knew what we were teaching him was true. We baptized him Saturday night and it was really special. When I pulled him out of the water he had a HUGE smile on his face and just started laughing. I gave him a hug and told him that he was a perfect man, he just smiled and told me “This has got to be the most important thing that I have done thus far in my life”. When he bore his testimony he shared his gratitude for the way that we were so persistent and patient with him. He said that for the longest time he only had one foot in the path of the Gospel but when he heard the true gospel he knew he had to dive right in with both feet in order for things to make sense.