So yeah the week basically went like dis:
Monday: Last lesson with Juan Rodriguez before his baptism. We just reviewed the baptismal interview questions with him. He gave us bread and liquid cheese called requesón (its sooo good, im addicted to this stuff)
Tuesday: We basically dropped Adrian (he was the investigator that cancelled his baptism the day it was supposed to happen like 2 months ago). He stopped progressing and doesnt keep his commitments anymore so were kinda done with him. At night we were with our branch mission leader preparing the program for Juan's baptism.
Wed: We had a sick lesson with Mary (I told yall about her last week) and she is so cool! We taught her a lot about the restoration and all of her beliefs about God and everything are so similar to ours. She is really cool! Later at night Juan had his baptismal interview and passed!!
Thursday: We had a multi zone conference with the zones of Durazno, Las Piedras, and Norte. It was a really good conference and we told more about #lighttheworld / #iluminaelmundo. It was a great conference and im so excited for Xmas! Also the sister missionaries from my group are leaving at the end of this transfer!! Its soo crazy! One of them was at the conference and so she gave her testimony with the other two missionaries that are going home next month. It was just soo weird that in a month i'll have the time of a sister missionary who's finished the mission! After the conference we had the fill the baptismal font and get the church building ready for Juan's baptism, and clean the cultural hall where we were all eating after the conference so we were in the church the entire day on Thursday from morning til night. Juan's baptism was awesome!!!!!! He didnt have a white shirt and we didnt have clothes here big enough for him so I ran to our house (which is actually just next door) and I grabbed my biggest white shirt and he tried to put it on and it almost fit but his belly almost popped the buttons off so we had to ask a member from the branch to lend him his white shirt to get baptized in, haha. But 4 of our investigators went!!!! Flavia, her "future" husband (they arent married, for now) and their daughter Alena and also Diego went (he is the husband of a recent convert here named Gloria). The service was soooo good and the spirit was just soo strong and a lot of members went too which was soo great!!!
Friday: not much happened. We were super pumped and ready to go out and baptized the world and we were like "were gonna find like 20 new investigators today!". We found 0 but it didnt change our attitude haha.
Saturday: We had a service project with Giovanna (one of the branch counselors) and we were helping this family to build the walls to this house they are trying to do. So I got to lay brick and cinderblocks and cement and we spent a few hours making walls and stuff.
Sunday: Juan asked me to confirm him so I confirmed him in sacrament meeting. It was the first time ive ever done that and it was a huge honor to be able to do that for him. At the end of sacrament meeting I was surprised to see Maria (my first convert from Maldonado, my first area) standing there in the doorway to leave!!!!!!! I about cried cause I hadnt seen her in an entire year!! Turns out she was here Saturday night for a party and she knew Elder Alvarez was here in Florida so she decided to stop by before leaving to say hi to him. But she didnt know that we were both serving here in the same place and that our branches met in the same building and he told her that and she was like "no way!! Elder Welker is here too! Where???!!!!!" and so she waited for our sacrament meeting to end to say hi to me. It was such a cool experience and she is going to get endowed in a month and Elder Alvarez and I are going to go with her to the temple.
It was such a great week!!!!! Im just sooo happy right now! Our investigators are all doing super well and we have 6 people that could potentially get baptized in a month or two (the only problem is getting them married because in about 2-3 weeks the place to get married at civily will be closed and we'll have to wait til February.
But everything is going fantastic here! Love you guys! Have a great week and a great Thanksgiving!
-Elder Welker
Juan is really short but also a little chunky, haha.
-Elder Welker
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