BDAY Week!

Well last week was pretty dang great. It was my B-day on Saturday and we had four baptisms and I got a cake from my pensionista! My b-day was pretty great.

We had interviews with Presidente Amato last Friday and that was awesome. It is always good to see and talk with President. He is such an amazing man. Also on Friday, me and my compy went to a lesson with the ZL's. During the lesson, I was sharing a story about my dad when he was 14 years old and años is years and I didn't really stress the Ñ and so I said anos. I said when my dad had 14 anuses and after I was done telling the story I look over and my comp and the ZL's are just dying and I had no idea why and it took them a while to recover. 

Elder Binford and Elder Thomsen; we all have bdays in September.

 Anyways on Saturday we baptized Elizabeth, Jesira, Esmeralda and Jhair. Lol, Elizabeth was so scared that we had to close the doors because she didn't want anyone to see her. She was crying and the first time the priest baptized her, of course, she didn't go all the way under so we had to do it again and it took like 20 minutes, haha, but she got baptized. 

Elizabeth, haha

On Sunday Jhair wouldn't get his butt out of bed so he didn't get confirmed. We are going to have to confirm him next week, but it was great because I got to confirm two of them so that was pretty cool. It's amazing how merciful the Lord is and how He has blessed me with baptisms. I am also very grateful to help bring these precious souls closer to living with their Father in Heaven once again. 

Jhair

So the miracle of the week was we were in church yesterday and Elder Martinez sends me a reference and told me to call him. I called him and we got an appointment set up an hour after church. His name is Brayan and he lived allllllllllllll the way at the very top of the edge of our area in the mountains. We had ward counsel after church and we had to leave that early and hustle over to his house. We were in our suits and we were sweating hard core, but we got to his house and taught him and man, this guy is chosen! He's a pretty cool guy. He works super hard form 11 am unto 2 am. He says that he wants to change his life and that he wants to be a member of our church and be baptized. After the lesson we asked him how he felt and he said he felt a warm feeling inside of him that felt really good, so we have a date with him. YAYYY! 

Esmeralda and Jesira

Love, Elder Shockley