Hello fam.
SORRY for the short email last week, didn't think it was such a big deal, but this week I will write a little bit more.
SO, we had a baptism this week!!! but I need to explain to you everything that happened leading up to this baptism.
Over a year ago, Javier had a coworker that started talking to him about his religion (the Mormons) and he was interested, so he looked it up online and asked to talk to the missionaries. He got in contact with some sister missionaries in the Temple in Mexico City who taught him a little and helped him get in contact with the missionaries where he lives. so the missionaries here visited him and his family and his wife Claudia. And one of his daughters, Nayely, got baptized last year! Then his coworker moved to the U.S. and he lost contact with the visitor's center missionaries, and the missionaries here also kind of stopped visiting, and he lost the excitement he had before.
Then recently he decided that now was his time and he wanted to learn more and be able to be baptized. So he got in contact with some other temple visitor center missionaries (in Washington D.C this time) and so we started visiting him more often. He was able to be baptized this last Wednesday and it was an incredible baptismal service!! But the best part was when a visitor got up to talk and share her part in the story. She was one of the missionaries in the temple in Mexico City that was teaching him an his family a year ago! And HER SISTER is one of the missionaries that was teaching him from Washington D.C. more recently! The spirit was so strong at his baptism that his other 2 daughters now want to learn more and be able to be baptized as well! And they have a goal of going to the temple next year to be sealed!
I feel so blessed to have been able to be a tinnny part of bringing this family into the gospel. I got to have the blessing of getting to be with them physically, teaching and seeing them change, but there have been so many people helping this be able to happen. And that's how it is with everyone! Its just really neat to be able to be a little part of the process.
Heres a pic of the family and the brother that baptized him. They're friends, even though the brother is from Hungary and doesn't really speak Spanish. So I translate for him (because I speak Hungarian...jk, he speaks English).
And some Christmasy pics... 'Tis the season, just missin' the snow...
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