Well this week we had some unexpected turn of events. We did have a baptism this weekend, but it turned out to be none of the people I mentioned last monday. It was Patricia, a lady who has known the church for years but never got baptized because she smoked. She had dropped from smoking like 2 packs a day, to only 4 cigarettes a day. But she said she wouldn´t be ready to completely stop smoking until May 29th, which would be exactly one year since her husband died. So we were planning on baptizing her on June 1st, so we had the zone leaders come on thursday to do the baptismal interview. Well during the interview, she was just like, you know what, I´m done smoking. I want to get baptized this saturday. So it was kinda a scramble to get everything ready by saturday, but we did it and she got baptized. But the unfortunate part of the story is that sunday morning, she got really sick and was throwing up, so she couldn´t get confirmed.... So we´ll have to wait till next sunday.
Micaela and Nancy came to church again this week. I don´t remember if I mentioned them in my email last week, but Micaela is this girl that used to go to an evangelica church but she said she realized that it wasn´t the true church so she just showed up with her mom Nancy at church the sunday before yesterday. We have been teaching them and also Nancy´s husband Carlos. He really likes us and wants to be baptized too, but he is a bus driver and had to work the past 2 sundays. He told us that he was going to ask for sundays off in June so that he could come to church. He also invited us over to have lunch tomorrow. If he is able to come next sunday, then we will baptize them together on June 8th.
Also we´re teaching this older lady named Beti who lives by herself. She came to church for the first time yesterday, and she also has a baptismal date for the 8th of June.
These people are really promising so we´re pretty excited for June. Well I don´t think I have much else to say.
Happy Memorial Day!
-Elder Shelton
PS: you cannot get any more Argentine than this... Boca jacket, drinking mate, with my electric kettle
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