Baptism

Well I've felt the Spirit so strongly and it's been great being an instrument in the Lord's hand. We have a baptism of a 9 year old set up this saturday. His name is Diego. His dad wanted to baptize him, but they had trouble finding the membership records of the dad. And his dad is getting deported next month. It was really sad, but as we set a date for this week I felt strongly that everything would be alright. So I told the dad that, and we actually got a call today that they found his record so that was an answer to my prayers.

The other day we were trying to decide who we should go see, and I felt like we should go visit someone in the area book named Alex that we tried visiting before, but he wasn't there. So I was wondering why we felt like we should go there and started looking for people. As we drove (we have a car, but try to walk when we can) down the next street over we found a guy named Martin who was interested in learning about the Gospel. Also, we were driving visiting people on the Progress record and they weren't home. And as we were trying to leave a house, Elder Pearl forgot his number that we have to enter into a black box (a thing the mission uses to track where we are, if we're breaking speed limit, who's driving, all that stuff). So I started looking for someone to talk to. And all of a sudden we see this teenager walking down the street and gave him a Book of Mormon and got his details. After we talked to him Elder Pearl remembered his number and couldn't figure out how he forgot it. But that's the stupor of thought the scriptures talk about. I don't know if anything will turn out because of it, but we'll see.

This weekend we're set up for 3 conformations, (what counts for the records) but none of them are people we found. But we have one more little girl that was adopted into a member family that runs a foster home, and the little girl wanted to be a member so we have a date for her too. So with these 4 people it counts as 4 baptisms under my name. And we're hoping we can get this one guy who's been coming to church for a while but needs to clear up some things. So the Missionary work is progressing pretty well here. I think it might be because of the Spirit of Elijah. With so many of the temples being built here in the valley, I think there are Spirits helping us so that their work can get done. And as President Sonne says, "when temples are dedicated, Satan's power is deminished over the area". Something like that. So hopefully they keep helping us and help us with these baptisms.

A few random things...we have a mission tour with Elder Christensen of the 70 tomorrow. The area we're at is highly populated by Spanish speakers, We actually talked to a few gang members so that was kind of fun. Umm we do get fed pretty much everynight, unless appointments fall through or something like that. I still can't understand spanish when they talk fast. There's a lot of work to be done in this area so I don't really get to write in my journal as much as i would like, but I try. Well I think that's about it for now.