Hey Mom and Dad,
Thanks for your emails! Wow sounds like a pretty crazy day in church. Good thing you were there to help. Were the missionaries able to talk with her afterwards? It´s always exciting as missionaries to see people come to church who aren´t members just out of their own free will. We always jump on the opportunity to talk with them because that really shows a lot about their desires and their faith to know the true gospel.
And wow that´s crazy to think I already have my homecoming talk scheduled, lol. But that´ll be sweet to have President Corbett there. He was our “Pa” in the pioneer trek. So do you think I´ll be the concluding speaker or in the middle? For some reason I like be the concluding speaker probably just because it´s easier to watch the time because I know exactly when the meeting ends but when your in the middle it´s harder to keep your talk within the time limits. But either way is good :)
But anyways, well this week I think we´ve been greatly blessed by the Lord. On Saturday night we had the baptismal service for seven of our investigators. It was an amazing night. The only problem was yet again the size our the room with the baptismal font. I don´t understand why they make those rooms so small. We really didn´t put much effort into announcing and inviting people to come because I figured with seven we would easily have a lot of people come. Before we started the room was filled and we had so put about 4 or 5 chairs directly outside of the door for people to sit and listen, lol. At first with Elder Marroquin we were sitting in the back but then we got up to do the baptisms and then after the ordinance a few people took our seats so at the end we just stood by the door, lol. That and it would be nice to have air conditioning. It was probably about 80 degrees even in the night so you can imagine what it would be like inside the small room packed with people, lol. But ah well for all those who were baptized it was definitely an edifying experience. It was funny because a couple of the young women who were going to be baptized were way nervous and I think were a little scared of the water. I baptized one named Gisella and she was nearly shaking as she entered the water. Her family was a reference from the first counselor of the bishopbric but as we visited them we realized that her parents already knew a good amount about the church and were very friendly. I was impressed because Gisella who just turned 15 has been coming to church alone and has been reading the Book of Mormon. Her family lives in a bamboo shack in pretty humble circumstances but I think she´s found a refuge in the church. She looked pretty happy on Sunday coming to church because she´s already made some friends even though she´s fairly shy.
On Sunday it was a neat sacrament meeting because the bishop always asks the new converts to sit on the stand to be confirmed so all seven were sitting up front. Then when it was time for the confirmations Elder Marroquín, two members and I took turns confirming. It took so long confirming everyone that we didn´t start the sacrament himn until halfway through the meeting, lol. Sunday night Elder Marroquín called sister gamboa about a rash he´s getting on his back and when she called us back I answered the phone and she congratulated me for our baptisms and said that President wanted to talk to me and then he congratulated us for the baptisms. So yeah, we were feeling pretty happy that night. We celebrated making rootbeer floats :)
Alright well I´d better get going. I attached some photos of the baptism so I hope you get them. Thanks for everything! Love you!
Love,
Elder David Frome
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