Alright so this has probably been the craziest weekend of my mission.
First off, we got the call early saturday morning and found out that both me and my comp are leaving. It was a huge surprise for everyone. I thought I was staying without a doubt. I´m going to Moreno, (Moreno 3rd ward). I´m still pretty surprised, and I´m kinda sad to be honest. I wasn´t prepared to leave at all. I had a lot of time in all my other areas so I basically knew already that I was leaving when those calls came, but this one was a lot different. I wish I could stay one more, but it´s alright I guess. It´s always hard saying goodbye.
But yesterday had yet another surprise in store for us. So we all had to meet up at 7 AM at the church, and from there we were going to the district conference in Bragado in a bus that the branch had rented out. Anyway, we got to the church a little before 7, and a member family was just showing up. We noticed that there was a lady with them that we didn´t recognize. We started talking to her and we found out that she lives in our area and she told us that she had attended church several times in the past, and had been taught by the elders for a long time, but had never been baptized because she wasn´t married to the guy she was living with. But she told us that she had seperated from him now and that she wanted to be baptized. I just kinda sat there like, am I actually hearing this right? This lady just showed up at the church at 7 AM and said she wants to get baptized haha. Then Elder Starr and I started talking, and we were like, wait a minute, she can get baptized this very day, because there was already a baptism planned in the afternoon when we got back from the conference for 2 girls that the hermanas are teaching. The only thing she needed was an interview, so Elder Starr interviewed her in the church while we were waiting for the rest of the members to show up. He said the interview went really well, and that she already had a strong testimony of the book of mormon and of the Church. So we talked to the branch president when he showed up, and he was ok with it, and then when we got to the conference we talked with our zone leaders and they were ok with it. So right when we got back from the conference, we had the 3 baptisms, and we confirmed them all right there, since there wasn´t sacrament meeting this week. It was pretty awesome. Estefanía (that´s her name by the way) was so happy that she started to cry a little bit during her confirmation.
Anyway, it was pretty crazy that that happened, to say the least.
I think that´s all I got. We leave tonight so the next time we talk I´ll be in my new area.
Also, I have no idea if we´re going to call for mother´s day... so I guess we´ll see what happens.
-Elder Shelton
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