Bautismo

Hey Mom and Dad,

I´m glad it sounds like you had a nice, safe trip to the east and everything went well. Sounds like classic Oregon weather with the rain and everything. But sounds like it´s turning to fall like weather little by little. That was always a thing I enjoyed in Oregon, having four seasons, lol. Here there aren´t really any seasons. When people ask us how the weather is at home they ask if it´s hot or cold it´s always fun to tell them how sometimes it´s hot but then sometimes it´s cold then they remember and say “oh yeah, where you live there are four seasons, right?” I imagine football season is up and going, right? How´s West looking this year?

Well this week was pretty crazy. It´s funny because we already had 3 kids who were going to be baptized this Saturday. 2 were the grandkids of a family that’s a little less active and the other is the cousin of a family of members who has moved here and is living here now named Jamileth. It was funny because I think it was Tuesday we went to teach Jamileth and her aunt and uncle and cousin when her aunt mentioned that her sister who lived just in front of them was also a member less active but has a son who´s 9 that has come to church and also is interested in baptism. We took advantage of the opportunity and invited him over. His name is Irwin so we talked to him and asked if he wanted to be baptized. He said yes and we asked if he wanted to be baptized with Jamileth or wanted to wait another week. He decided he´d rather be baptized with Jamileth so we thought, “eh, sounds good!” So each night this week we went to their house to teach him everything he needs to know to be baptized, lol. So it was fun to prepare an investigator for baptism all in one week. He was a smart kid so it wasn´t too hard. Though he was a little rambunctious but it was all right. Plus it was good for Jamileth to remember everything to help him learn as well.
Then Saturday was awesome. We had the baptism with the elders from Guayacan. They had one baptism so we had 5 in total for the service. It was way neat. After the ordinance we invited a guy to come who was a friend of the family of Jamileth who knew how to play the Guitar. So he played a solo and played “secret prayer” that sounded amazing which brought the spirit.

So yeah, all in all a great service. Afterwards with Elder Godinez we bought a couple of Magnum ice cream bars to celebrate :) lol

Alright well I´d better get going. Thanks for everything! Oh and by the way we just received a call from the office this morning telling us that we are now approved to move in to the new apartment. We´ve had to wait so long for the contract to be written, read, approved and signed before moving in but now finally we can! This afternoon we talked with a family who has a truck to help us. Finally we´ll be out of the house of cockroaches! :)

Love you!

Elder David Frome