What a week. We had another miracle on Saturday. We baptized the father of our second familia de oro! It is such a blessing to be able to invite people to come unto Christ and help them change their lives. Its also amazing to see the change in people after they have been baptized. They seem happier, more lively, and enthusiastic. I wish I could help everyone here have that change of heart.
Due to a request, i´m going to share the names and brief stories of the people that have been baptized. The first baptism we had, we baptized a sister by the name of Julia Gutierrez and her daughter Yolanda. They are the wife and daughter of the brother who got baptized on Saturday. His name is Victor. They are one of our golden contacts. We were on divisions the day that we contacted them. I was with the Zone Leader visiting with another investigator and my companion, Elder Tumbaco was contacting with another missionary. That day it was raining really hard but, as my companion and the other missionary were walking along the road, they found the family outside of their house. On October 17th Julia and Yolanda got baptized. Later on, Victor was able to be baptized on the 7th of November.
The name of the other family we baptized is Velasquez. They are a really special family. The parents of the father, Guadalupe, were less-active members. He told us that he remembered them going to church at times when he was young, but he had never been baptized. The day we contacted them, we were just going door to door. We found a curved path around another house (which we later found out was the house of his brother) and some stairs that led down to a house. From the stairs, there was a wooden plank that led to the roof of the house and there was a boy playing on the roof. That day we talked with the boy and asked him if his parents were home. He immediately invited us into the house and we met the whole family. A couple of weeks later, Guadalupe told us that the day we came, he and his wife, Digla, were having major issues with each other. To add to the problems, they had 5 children and werent married. Through weeks of work with this family, we helped them get married and baptized the following week (October 31st).
Of course, with both of these families, there was no way that we as missionaries could do it alone. By the tender mercies of the Lord, we were able to help these families enter the waters of baptism.
As far as P-Day went, we just cleaned the house a bit and bought some food to cook at home. I also found bacon so thatll be nice. For lunch we got together with some other missionaries in the zone and some hermana missionaries from El Salvador made pupusas. I also helped make one and it didnt turn out bad at all so im happy with that.
The topic of the week is CAMBIOS. Last week I completed my training with my companion and the tradition is that either the trainer (the dad) or the new missionary (the son) will have transfers. Most of the time the trainer leaves his son in the area. Right now, me and my companion are just anticipating that one of us is going to leave Pueblo Nuevo. Both of us think its going to be Elder Tumbaco that leaves, since he trained and has more time in Pueblo Nuevo than I do. We don´t know for sure if we´re gonna have transfers, but we are expecting them at the same time. Personally, I would like to stay in Pueblo Nuevo. I really hope to stay here for two more changes. That would be a dream come true to me. Partially because I really like this area, and partially because I want to spend Christmas here where I know the members. In the end, wherever the Lord wants me to go, i´ll go.
Anyways, thats all for this week. Things are going great here in the mission. Im learning lots of new things every day. Also, some Chapín (Guatemalan nickname) phrases are sticking to me. Not sure if thats a good thing but its happening. Hope everyone has an amazing week!
Elder Taylor
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