Hey Family!
So sorry i didn't send out this email earlier, we went to the temple today! and then we had this other thing too, so that's why i am emailing so late. The temple was way sweet, and I took some good pictures. I will send some pictures your guys way. Oh so yeah i can't believe that it is tuesday again. So crazy! this week just flew by way quick, i think it was because we had a baptism this past saturday.. It was SWEET.. but crazy story. Here it is:
So an hour before the baptism... i know right, you probably see where this is going. Aurora called and my companion answered and she just was wondering if she could change the time. She wanted to do it for another week. and my companion was like ah no but he didn't know what to say so we told her we would call her back and so we talked about it. Praying in our heads the whole time and i called her back, oh and by the way we were even on the way to her house when she called...super last minute...so basically we just talked about it a little and then we told her we will just meet her at her house. When we got there she was changed and ready to go! So we were like oh, ok, sweet, let's go then. But she needed an interview with a counselor to the Mission President. and he was on his way and then he got lost and so it took a while for him to get there, and by that time it was almost 7 pm which was when the baptism was supposed to start. We were waiting, when we called our ward mission leader who was at the church getting the baptism ready to happen when he told us the baptismal font was not full (it should have been filled because they had a baptism before that and we called to ask them to leave it full. but i guess they forgot) and we were the only ones with the keys. So we raced from Aurora's house to go start filling the font and then when we got there, the partitioners were locked too (you know the ones that open up so you can see the baptism) and none of our keys worked for it. So we were freaking out about that too. Then after 10 mintues we figured out that the keys where in the closet and so it worked out alright... SO finally the baptism happened at 7:30 pm with a ton of work but ni modo it was super good!
But i remember just thinking holy smokes man it was so hard just to do it. and then afterwards everything was just way calm. Aurora was ready and she picked the date for this past Saturday after she prayed and then the day of the Baptism she just felt super super nervous, a total change. Then after she finally went through with it, she was way glad she did it and she was happy and smiling. It just goes to show, i think, that satan is really working hard, he doesn't want people to get baptized or follow the Gospel because he knows that it's a good thing and that they are on the right path. So he'll do everything to try to stop it. That's how we felt that one night for real.. but too bad anyways satan kus you cant beat God! No matter what it's still gonna happen. So yup, Aurora was baptized! i have to send pictures of that to you guys too, with my SWEET looking suit, haha. So needless to say this week was really good and we felt good about it. It's just good to see like, well not results, but just know that if you keep trying hard enough...we will see people accept the Gospel.
Let's see what else.. Well pretty much everything is going good, we have a lot of stuff to do and we have been really busy which is nice and tough at the same time, haha - no complaints though!
Oh so funny story, we were going to go shopping last week at wal-mart and this lady walks up to us and gives us this card to get a free smoothie and stuff!! TENDER MERCY. So when we went.. come to find out its a health place, so i thought, oh man great..... its gonna be nasty, but it was actually pretty good, haha and we got our body composition, and the paper told me i was fat! haha it gave us our body fat percentage, which i shall not reveal at this time haha and then classified us. so because of that I'm trying to eat better haha, dang it oh well SPAM lite is still good right?... haha. So now we are all trying to be nutritious, which is lame! But its not too bad though i guess. haha Dad you remember BUFF MAMA? hahahaha. ah man i still can't believe i did that with you and Cait. Oh and you know the funny part too? A couple of the missionaries did the master cleanse workout. it was wierd kus i remember when you did it. but well anyways. We got an appointment to head out too, so I will talk to you guys more next week. love you guys! ADIOS muchachitos!
Your nutrious pious islandous mexican missionary,
Elder Thomas
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