Third Times a Charm!

Another week has passed by and here I am starting my 3rd week as the mama bear. Life is absolutely great and absolutely crazy. I don't think the stress ever goes away to be honest haha.  Tuesday we started out the week great. We had a bunch of lessons and our mission leader came with us. It is

AWESOME to have such a supportive mission leader who is ready to work and give his all too. We had lessons with some really good possible progressing investigators....sadly none of them went to church so that's unfortunate. During that day I really began to understand what it's like to have the holy Ghost present. It's a quiet peace and everyone understands. let me tell you there is nothing better than a solid lesson with the spirit there. Wednesday we had our typical district meeting. My district changed. I'm kinda bummed about that because if I didnt change districts I would have been with 2 missionaries for 6 months! That usually doesnt happen but we are in the same zone so that's good. That night we had the baptismal interview of Estefany. SHE PASSED AND WE HAD A BAPTISM!!!! Probably weird to say she passed her interview but she did haha I don't know a better way to say that. No worries I will get to the baptism but it's a long story. The next day was great. We had our first ward missionary activity. We had 3 investigators go and tons of youth. More youth than adults but sometimes it's more fun with the youth. We did a reenactment of The tree of Life (the tree in Lehi's dream). It was super fun. We had a good turn out and hoping for the same our next activity this month. We have dropped a lot of people this week. People that we thought would progress but arent doing their part. So we told them that if they need anything and when they are ready they can call us. Sometimes it's necessary because the work needs to keep moving forward. Before you know it we were doing our weekly planning again. Nothing exciting there haha. Okay. Saturday. 

THE BAPTISM. Everyone this investigator Estefany has been progressing for a very long time. Her original date for her baptism was in November. 3 months later we made it. But it was very stressful. All I hoped for was a smooth baptism because it was just a long time comin. the baptism was in the morning so that's always more stressful. We were trying to prepare and our district leader called at the same time to have our weekly reports and let's just say a ton of stress. Then the baptism. We had a good turn out and everything. The stress began during the ordinance. Our recent convert Alex did the ordinance which is AWESOME!!! Seriously if I don't have more baptisms he is the reason I'm on the mission. Anyway, the first time her knee was out of the water so it's all good because that happens. He did the ordinance again. That time completely in the water and everything. There was a question about her full name and well I said it was okay. Here is the stress. She got changed and everything and we went to check on her. I asked her what her full name is and WE FORGOT THE 2ND LAST NAME. I totally spaced it that mexicans have 2 last names. She obviously had to be baptized again. Because God has a perfect order. Everything that happens here happens in heaven too. That's why we did it again. I felt SOOOO embarrassed. It was awful. BUT third times a charm and went perfectly. Thankfully she was prepared enough to not care being baptized 3 times. It's a day to remember in all honestly. We all learned that day. Because we all were forgetting something. Anyway she was confirmed yesterday and all is good. Estefany is officially now a mormon haha. 

And yesterday was good. We ate with a ton of members at one of their houses. Super fun to be with a lot of members. We only had one more lesson but they usually are super distracted. This time no! They actually were readying the Book of Mormon just before we arrived. It really does make a difference to read the BOM! Oh how I love the BOM. It's the greatest. Anyway, that was my week! Love you all and thanks for everything!

Hermana Cross