Wow has anyone ever told you guys that being a missionary is MAD stressful and I testify of that
This week was all about La Familia Laòs!!! So we were planning their baptisms for this Sunday and the Mom ending up smoking so we had to push their date back for the 19th which was really sad and all the kids were sad we pushed their date back. But that being said Friday night for whatever reason President told our ZLs to tell us to baptize the kids without the mom and we were like "YUHHHH", hey I don't question president, so basically on Saturday we were getting all their interviews and everything for the baptism set up. Now that leads us to the most stressful day of the week.....Sunday
Sunday morning we pull up to the church at 7 am to fill the font, and we didn't have Hot water, we were like dude were screwed. But we figured it out real fast and then we figured out we didn't have any water. So then we figured out its because the water tank was empty so we started filling up the water tank and while that was happening we ran over to go check if the family was up and getting ready. So we pull up at 8:30, and the oldest son who's 17, Aaron, was up and going and he's like im ready to be baptized, straight capo, and we're like and ur fam, and hes like nah they had to go to the hospital yesterday and just got back and and hadn't gone to bed , and we're super tired and didn't want to go to church, so he tried waking them up like 4 times and they weren't budging, so we were like welp, I guess only Aaron is getting baptized today, so we told him we would come back in 30 minutes and bring him to church and meanwhile to do what he could to get them up....
So during these 30 minutes me and my comp were just questioning life and what happened, and by the time we come back the ENTIRE family was up and getting ready. Aaron like did something or God straight woke them up but it was a crazy miracle. But by the time we left their house it was like 15 minutes before church and we were a good 35 minutes walking, so we got their like 30 minutes late, but right before they blessed the water we pulled up and our nutty bishop was like "go give em the bread" so were able to take the bread and water for the sacrament. Miracle after miracle am I right...
Welp so turns out during these 2 hours the water tank wasn't filling up and we had ZERO water in the font, and we managed to get a little water in the font but it was FREEZING, the font literally went up to my shin it was bad, so idk how but Aaron being the stud he is was like baptized laying down it was nuts, and then the 2 little Girls tried and just couldn't do it. The water was too cold and there was basically none to work with. So after trying for like 20 minutes we ended up having to postpone the baptisms to next sunday so only Aaron was baptized and confirmed. But our bishop being the stud he is brought the family into his office after and idk what happened in that office but it lasted like almost an hour and they left SO HAPPY. Aaron was able to get his temple recommend and is going to recieve the priesthood next sunday (I think) So now we are trying to have Aaron baptize his family next Sunday!!!
That was my stressful week, pray we have water in our church Next sunday and that the mom can stop smoking!!!!!
1. Capo Aaron
2. Elder Soto
3. Jumbo
4. El districto
5. La flia
6. An almost successful baptism
7. Service missionaries
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