Having two P-Days pretty close makes things seem really weird, but it was a true blessing to go to the temple. On Memorial Day we got to eat with Los Cruz who fed us some really good ribs. That night we started exchanges with the Zone Leaders. Elder Hill came with me. I slept terribly because of 2 reasons. 1. The apartment gets super hot. 2. Elder Hill woke me up with his sleep talking. But we had a really good dinner. I made us tacos while Elder Hill read my mail that I got. Wednesday we went to the temple as a District and had dinner afterwards. It was great! But that night we had our Visitor's Center lesson fall through. We weren't able to have a lesson with them all week, which is pretty frustrating because we are getting them ready for baptism. But the interview with Los Roa went great!!!! Thursday we got to give some service as we helped a family move into their new house. The hardest part was having to move a washing machine over a fence with only 4 of us. On Friday we got some pretty bad news. Los Mejia who are getting ready for their baptism broke the Word of Wisdom so they will have to put back their date one more week. I was so sad. I don't think I've ever been so sad in my life. Saturday we got to give some service again as we helped an investigator make fruit flowers for her children's birthday party. We then taught a sister that told us that we were the first people that she had ever let into her home to learn about the Gospel. At church yesterday it was pretty disappointing to see that one of our families with a baptismal date was not at church. We're not quite sure what is going. But we did have a new family at church. The little kids loved it!
After church we scrambled to prepare everything for the baptism. We had to look for a table for the programs and then we had to look for the family. But we finally gathered everyone and everything. We took some pictures and started the program. The children asked that I baptize them. So I did. I baptized the younger brother first. And then as I was about to baptize the older brother, the younger one started swimming in the baptismal font. It made everyone laugh as he sadly got out of the font.
I thought alot about what it means to serve the Lord this week. As I got to participate in the ordinances of the temple and also the ordinance of baptism, I realized that the promises of the Lord are so much greater and beautiful than we can really comprehend.
Con Cariño,Élder Luis González
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