But in other news, Elder Topham is leaving Rosenburg and
I'm staying, so I'm taking over this area and our "many" investigators.
To do that, do y'all want to send me a GPS? Brooke had one right? Also a
CD case would be wonderful! Aaron said he can finally send me a bunch
of CD's, and Brooke has talked about it, and I have too many cd cases.
I'll probably try to send home my medium sized suitcase (the handle is a
little bit messed up, but doesn't the warranty cover that?) because
technically we should only have two, and I just hate having three
suitcases. Last transfer I only put a few things in it.
So Friday, to do the baptismal interview, Elder Tate
came down here as a zone leader for an exchange. That was fun. Aaron
mentioned something about his trainer, and I remember Danny, I mean
Elder Dawson, talking about his, and I'm just like, my trainer was
awesome! That was fun and we worked hard and schtuff. (I use and stuff a
lot when I speak in English. Quote from a recent lesson "Jesus Christ
atoned and suffered for our sins and stuff.")
So the interview went well with Marlen. She's super
happy and was ready to get baptized. What was funny is we had like two
more things to teach her and her boyfriend, a member, misunderstood
her. We said these two things can be taught after the interview, and he
thought we meant after baptism. So we ask if we can teach her and he's
just starts getting super worked up and why we're going so fast until
Jennifer, the daughter of the Solis family yells "Calmese!!!" It was
funny, because she was ready. We knew way beforehand that the 24th of
August was when she needed baptism, but the biggest obstacle for this
pretty easy baptism was the members. More about working with the
members, at the baptism- waiting for the ward mission leader to show up.
He said he'd make the program. We talked to him multiple times about
that. He shows up like twenty minutes after six and we pass the
programs out. The program is full of errors, "Marlene Alejandro" extra
e. Espititu Santo, etc. After the baptism he pulls Elder Topham aside
and says "You need to make sure the name is spelt right next time."
Well.... who made this program? We knew how to spell it. You gave us a
hard time the first correlation when we spelt it Marlin. (Also its
spelled, not spelt, you learn something new every day.). But that's
life, and we go on.
Yesterday was Branch conference, and guess what?
We're getting a new presidency too! Hermano Solis is now presidente
Solis. That's crazy about the new presidency and stuff. Oh, and
enough letter and on to the deeper stuff! Its been a crazy transfer for
me, but we learn stuff from everything. Charity! For example, my comp
now has an interview with prez, and based on president's notes today,
(The mission had 42 baptisms this week!) its about improper phone use.
A sister from my MTC district talked about being chastised by her prez
for not being honest enough about her comp who just went home, and I
think I've done things right and done things out of love. Nothings as
bad as having to go home, but it hasn't really been the best of things.
Its been fun though! And tiring at times, but oh well. I've learned
what charity really means, and I guess that's why I went here. I'd
quote scriptures here, but you don't understand Spanish.
I'm out of time now, but I promise y'all pictures next time.
With love, and from your favorite son.... I mean one of your favorite sons....
Elder David Austin Barlow
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