Hello Everybody!! What`s happening??
This week was pretty crazy, lots of cool stuff happened! So I guess I`ll
just get into it.
Tuesday we had a big leadership meeting with all of the district and zone
leaders together with the assistants and with President Baquerizo. We did a lot
of talking about what it was that Elder Rasband taught us and then we put all of
his promises and his commitments into a big list to be sent throughout the
mission. And we talked a whole lot about how we should do exchanges as leaders,
which was awesome, I learned a ton. Then President talked to us about how just
because we are leaders doesn't mean that we are any better than our fellow
missionaries, and testified about humility and leadership. It was awesome.
Wednesday we had to go to Tintal to do a baptismal interview with a couple
that wanted to get baptized that same night!! And as always with missionary
work, something has to go wrong, like us spending 45 minutes on a bus that we didn't need to be on and being an hour and a half late to the baptismal
interview..... but once we finally got there it went really well. The brother
and sister's names are Carol and John, and they were good and ready for baptism.
John always has to travel for one or two days for his work, so that's why they
wanted to have the baptism Wednesday. Since we were already there and they were
going to be baptized that night a little bit later, me and my companion decided
to stay and help set the baptism all up. So we stayed int the Tintal chapel for
a little bit while the baptismal font was filling up. The baptism was planned to
start at 7:00, so we had a little bit of time to find something to eat. We got
back at about 6:30 and we checked the font, and we found it with about an inch
of water. This thing fills up super slow!!!! We started to realize that that was
going to be a problem, and as the Branch President showed up with the other
members to help out, we started to realize that we were going to have to take
the initiative to fill it up.
So, we started filling up the buckets..... and then the water shot off completely! So it ended up that we had to go around the back of the church to
the water tank in the ground and manually fill up the buckets, run them around
to the font and pour the water in.... it was the funnest thing ever!!! All the
members were working to get the buckets filled as we ran around filling it up
the font. It was definitely an unforgettable night. And I got to see all my good
friends from Tintal! It was a huge deal for this little branch, this was the
first baptism that they`ve had in a year. So the opportunity to go back there
and be apart of that was amazing!!
One thing that we have been using a ton to teach people and to contact is
through the Book of Mormon and how it answers Questions of the Soul. We have
little cards with the questions from preach my gospel that have all the little
answers from the Book of Mormon next to it. It has been a miracle. I've seen
people that we contact not want anything and then we show them how the Book of
Mormon can answer their questions and they let us in to teach them about it. We
were able to find a ton of new investigators with using the Book of Mormon. I
know that the Book of Mormon is the word of God and that we are so blessed to
have been given the opportunity to have our questions answered through the Book
of Mormon. One lady we contacted in Girardot that went pretty well but when we
asked when she was free for us to come and teach her, told us that she was
always busy studying and working. But then we took out the questions of the soul
and had her pick a question, and this time when we asked her she told us, oh
yeah, can you guys come this Friday? The Book of Mormon is a miracle in our
hands, and I testify that if we read and pray about the message it contains the
Holy Ghost will testify to our heart that it is true.
So those were the highlights of this week, it was pretty good!! I love
being a missionary and wouldn't want to be anywhere else!!!
Love you
all!
Elder Kendall
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| Elder Ichuro |
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| My grandpa, Elder Gilespie |
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| My old district leader, Elder Calderon. I love that guy! |
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| Elder Justiano |
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| Elder Espinola, my dad :) |
Good morning, how are you?
ReplyDeleteMy name is Emilio, I am a Spanish boy and I live in a town near to Madrid. I am a very interested person in knowing things so different as the culture, the way of life of the inhabitants of our planet, the fauna, the flora, and the landscapes of all the countries of the world etc. in summary, I am a person that enjoys traveling, learning and respecting people's diversity from all over the world.
I would love to travel and meet in person all the aspects above mentioned, but unfortunately as this is very expensive and my purchasing power is quite small, so I devised a way to travel with the imagination in every corner of our planet. A few years ago I started a collection of used stamps because through them, you can see pictures about fauna, flora, monuments, landscapes etc. from all the countries. As every day is more and more difficult to get stamps, some years ago I started a new collection in order to get traditional letters addressed to me in which my goal was to get at least 1 letter from each country in the world. This modest goal is feasible to reach in the most part of countries, but unfortunately, it is impossible to achieve in other various territories for several reasons, either because they are very small countries with very few population, either because they are countries at war, either because they are countries with extreme poverty or because for whatever reason the postal system is not functioning properly.
For all this, I would ask you one small favor:
Would you be so kind as to send me a letter by traditional mail from Colombia? I understand perfectly that you think that your blog is not the appropriate place to ask this, and even, is very probably that you ignore my letter, but I would call your attention to the difficulty involved in getting a letter from that country, and also I don’t know anyone neither where to write in Colombia in order to increase my collection. a letter for me is like a little souvenir, like if I have had visited that territory with my imagination and at same time, the arrival of the letters from a country is a sign of peace and normality and an original way to promote a country in the world. My postal address is the following one:
Emilio Fernandez Esteban
Avenida Juan de la Cierva, 44
28902 Getafe (Madrid)
Spain
If you wish, you can visit my blog www.cartasenmibuzon.blogspot.com where you can see the pictures of all the letters that I have received from whole World.
Finally, I would like to thank the attention given to this letter, and whether you can help me or not, I send my best wishes for peace, health and happiness for you, your family and all your dear beings.
Yours Sincerely
Emilio Fernandez