We´ve had some adventures this past week. But first, we did have our baptism of Gonzalo, the 8 year old. It was really cool, and we got a lot of members there. Unfortunately tho, we only had one confirmation yesterday. Nicolas wasn´t able to make it, which was a long story, but we´ve already talked to him and we will for sure confirm him next sunday. We were able to get 6 investigators in church yesterday, which was pretty good, but it was kinda a let down because we were expecting to get over 10. We had plans to buscar a madre and her two daughters in the morning and go with them to church, but when we showed up in the morning they weren´t there, which was definitely a let down. We had also made plans with two investigators we have that have a car to bring 3 of our other investigators to church with them, which they did. ¡Capos! They definitely came up clutch.
Recently we started eating with this family on mondays. The dad is a member that´s been inactive for most his life, and his wife´s not a member. But he has a daughter who is 8 and he wants to baptize her so he has been talking with the bishop and doing the stuff necessary to be worthy to baptize her. They´ve been coming to church basically the whole time I´ve been her. And about 4 weeks ago, they got married. Yes, they got married. Well once we heard that we were like it´s time to baptize the wife. So we went to their house one night and taught them about baptism. We kinda acted like we were teaching the daughter, but really it was for the mom. At the end we invited her to be baptized and it was a pretty firm no. (Of course the one couple that gets married doesn´t want to get baptized.) But anyway, we were eating lunch with them last monday and she was talking about her daughter is going to get baptized pretty soon, and then out of nowhere she was like, ¨and yeah I´ve been thinking, and maybe I´ll get baptized with her.¨ Elder Chamberlain happened to be drinking juice at the time and he about choked on it. But anyway, it was a good surprise and hopefully it will end up happening.
Friday was interesting. First off we were riding our bikes down the street in the morning and there was randomly this guy running backwards down the street as fast as he could. Elder Chamberlain had to swerve to miss him. I don´t know why but it cracked me up and we laughed about it the whole morning. We had some bad luck in the afternoon though. It started out with me eating it. Elder Chamberlain stopped suddenly to talk to this group of kids and I tried to get off my bike while it was still moving a little bit but my foot landed in the most slippery mud ever and I completely ate it and landed flat on the ground in all the mud. It was pretty embarassing. Elder Chamberlain got a good laugh out of it though. Later on, at about 7, a storm came out of nowhere and it started pouring. We were on dirt roads with no street lights so it was really dark and we basically couldn´t see anything. We were going really fast on our bikes towards our investigators house because we didn´t want to get completely soaked. Elder Chamberlain was in front of me and out of nowhere he collided with something and he basically did a front flip over his bike and landed face first in the dirt. It was the most unexpected thing ever because we were just riding down the middle of the street. At first I thought he had to have broken something because it looked pretty bad. But he got up pretty quick and he was somehow fine. We looked at what he had hit and it turned out to be a concrete barrior that for some reason had been put in the road. After I realized he was ok, I started laughing for like 10 minutes straight, I thought I was going to die haha. We´re still laughing about it to this day.
Do you remember that huge family of 9 I wrote about a while ago? We definitely had an interesting experience with them this week. I don´t think I have time to write it all out though so I´ll probably tell you next week. Sorry to leave you on a cliffhanger. Oh and we had quite the adventure in sacrament meeting, I´ll probably tell you about that next week too.
Anyway, hopefully it´s all good in the hood back in Cache Valley.
Hay que disfrutar cada día.
-Elder Shelton
buscar a madre = "go find a mother"
Hay que disfrutar cada día = "we should enjoy each day"
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