Dear Friends
So to start off...
I spent all day Monday in Elder Gubler´s area and then we made the long hike and bus ride back to mine. I wanted to be productive with my time with Elder Gubler, so I decided to have him hold the baptismal interviews with the investigators that we were going to baptize Saturday. Everything went smoothly with the interviews, but we weren´t able to get the dad´s signature of one of our investigators, so the next couple days were spent tracking him down.
Wednesday I was working with Elder Gubler and I we found a couple really cool people to teach. That night, we had to get a ride to the bus terminal to pick up our greenies, because the both of us are training! My new companion is Elder Lins. He´s from the state of Pernambuco, seems to be a really nice, simple and sensitive guy. I´m hoping that my crazy Short personality traits don´t scare him too much.
The really interesting part of this week happened on Saturday. We were getting everything ready for our baptisms and everything was set. The hymns were selected, the font was full, and the cake was looking delicious (I found a black forest cake mix). We were waiting for people to show up and we noticed that the font was pretty full, so we decided to let it empty a little. We went to go grab some soda for the after baptism snack and when we got back the bishop´s counselor hadn´t shown up yet. We made some calls and found out that the bishop´s counselor was traveling, and the bishop couldn´t come because he had to teach institute. We ran around and finally found someone to preside the meeting. Just as everything was calming down, we realized that we left the font draining and when we got there the font was empty!!! We grabbed what buckets we could find and we used every sink, shower and hose we could find to fill the font as fast possible. After about forty-five minutes we only had about a foot of water. With no other options we continued with the baptism, and for the first time I baptized while kneeling.
In the end Everything worked out, but the enemy was trying his hardest to stop this baptism from happening.
There can be miracles when you believe.
Love,
Elder David Short
So to start off...
I spent all day Monday in Elder Gubler´s area and then we made the long hike and bus ride back to mine. I wanted to be productive with my time with Elder Gubler, so I decided to have him hold the baptismal interviews with the investigators that we were going to baptize Saturday. Everything went smoothly with the interviews, but we weren´t able to get the dad´s signature of one of our investigators, so the next couple days were spent tracking him down.
Wednesday I was working with Elder Gubler and I we found a couple really cool people to teach. That night, we had to get a ride to the bus terminal to pick up our greenies, because the both of us are training! My new companion is Elder Lins. He´s from the state of Pernambuco, seems to be a really nice, simple and sensitive guy. I´m hoping that my crazy Short personality traits don´t scare him too much.
The really interesting part of this week happened on Saturday. We were getting everything ready for our baptisms and everything was set. The hymns were selected, the font was full, and the cake was looking delicious (I found a black forest cake mix). We were waiting for people to show up and we noticed that the font was pretty full, so we decided to let it empty a little. We went to go grab some soda for the after baptism snack and when we got back the bishop´s counselor hadn´t shown up yet. We made some calls and found out that the bishop´s counselor was traveling, and the bishop couldn´t come because he had to teach institute. We ran around and finally found someone to preside the meeting. Just as everything was calming down, we realized that we left the font draining and when we got there the font was empty!!! We grabbed what buckets we could find and we used every sink, shower and hose we could find to fill the font as fast possible. After about forty-five minutes we only had about a foot of water. With no other options we continued with the baptism, and for the first time I baptized while kneeling.
In the end Everything worked out, but the enemy was trying his hardest to stop this baptism from happening.
There can be miracles when you believe.
Love,
Elder David Short
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