Well last wednesday was the first day of just having only 2 of us in the apartment...it was a little lonely at first but we got used to it. We are good friends, and I've spent most of my mission in 2 person apartments anyways so I am kind of used to it. We visited some of the members for the first time today, and got to know them a little bit better. We had a dinner with family Palomeque, we really like them and I promised them a banana bread weeks ago but kept forgetting to do it, so this week I finally came through. We put some cinnamon in it, it made it so much better!
On thursday we had our first district meeting with the new district, I love the people in it. It is me and my hijo, elder manzanete ( a brazilian who was the former assistant to the president and a great missionary), elder ramirez (colombia, one of my ex comps and a good friend of mine), and then elder seely and elder monaghan, both from canada! I think we are going to baptize a ton this transfer. That afternoon after traveling back to our area, we had a good lesson with Diamela...she is my favorite person to teach here, she is really intelligent. We read moroni 8, (talks about not to baptize infants) and then read in mosiah 18 where it says "
10 Now I say unto you, if this be the desire of your hearts, what have you against being baptized in the name of the Lord, as a witness before him that ye have entered into a covenant with him, that ye will serve him and keep his commandments, that he may pour out his Spirit more abundantly upon you?
11 And now when the people had heard these words, they clapped their hands for joy, and exclaimed: This is the desire of our hearts."
And she said that it is the desire of her heart, and if it was only her she would get baptized. But she went on to say that her daughter goes to a catholic school, and that every year they ask to see the parents catholic baptismal certificate. She says if she gets baptized into our church her daughter will get kicked out of school. I read her 1 nephi 3:7, (i will go and do) and left her to read 2 nephi 2 (opposition in all things) but if anyone has any suggestions that could help me I would love to hear it because diamela is super important to us and I want to help her.
On friday we had a little surprise, we went up the mountain super far to get to the president of the branch's house, it is very far, and for that reason it was my first time there. But when we got there, we encountered his grand daughter who is 9 and hasn't been baptized. We taught her a bit, we did a practice baptismal interview ( the other elders had already been teaching her) and taught her everything she didn't know. Then afterwards, she and president said that she wanted to get baptized the next day. So we went about preparing all that, we had manzanete come to the interview Saturday morning, and she passed of course. I was calling members all day long trying to get as many people to commit to the baptism as possible, and in the end 35 people showed up it was a really nice baptism and the first with me and my hijo.
Im way out of time. I have left a couple things out ( we met a buddhist lady, some other stuff)
They are about to cut my internet, I need to go! They just made me buy 15 more minutes of internet because I didn't finish in time.....
Love you all! Talk to you next week!
Elder Christensen
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