Baptism of Mayse, Maycom and Maxwell
Sister Missionaries and Irma Nayara
Hi family!
So this week was a
fast one because we were running running so that some of our investigators
could get baptized this week. After lots of bumps in the road, people who got
scared or wanted to wait more time, or moms who were mad at their kids for
being obnoxious, we got 3 of our amazing investigators baptized, Maycom, Maysa
and Maxwell! The others will shortly follow. But it was a great week! I felt
like I could finally catch my breath a little bit finally, that our work was
finally showing its fruits. The baptisms were great; I have never seen people
SO Excited to be baptized!! They were all nervous and antsy saying ´´is there
gonna be a lot of people there? Do they all know our names and who were are
already? Am I gonna have to give my testimony in the front on Sunday? Are we already
members of our church?´´ They are really great. It was also a great opportunity
to finally get their parents to step foot inside the church, and now we are
working on getting them married and at the church on Sunday!
The high of this
week was that we went to fill up the baptismal font Saturday morning. We had
heard it might be filled since the last baptism which was a few weeks ago but
we went just to try and drain it ourselves. Turns out ´´draining´´ this font doesn’t
mean just pressing the little button, it means you get to take out all of the
dirty smelly stinky water full of bugs and new species of bacteria unknown to
science, bucket by bucket. haha. It’s funny now that I write it out but it was
not so funny in the moment! lol. We spent about 3 hours throwing buckets of
sick water out the window or down the toilet just to be able to fill it back up
again. Adventure is out there! Am I right?!
This week I also
noticed that the bishop here, when the people are going over their time limit
as dad would say during their talks, the bishop raises the pulpit up and down a
little as a secret signal haha. Classic Bishop Henrique.
Let me also just
make it publically known how much I enjoy Jared’s weekly life updates now,
seriously he puts in a recap of pretty much every day of his week which makes
me feel like I’m right in the moment with him haha. #jerryshoutout
But other than that
things are pretty laid back here in São Miguel. The city elections here started
so it’s a whirlwind of campaigning and shallow promises and sad music jingles
that will never come close to ´´vote me maybe´´. I don’t know how another week already
passed by. I feel like the world works in weeks now and not days, the time
passes so quickly. All I know is that I love this work! I love feeling so close
to the spirit and knowing more about my Savior every day. I feel closer to Him
than I ever have, and that’s not despite the hard moments but exactly because
of them. I know He has a real and living church here on the earth! And when
others find out about that they will understand why we are the way we are! A
nice and peculiar people.... work hard to share something about the gospel with
someone this week! We don’t understand how much others are searching for the
missing puzzle pieces we have. I am glad to have gained my real testimony here
on my mission, a place and time that I will never get back after December 27! I
love you guys so much! Have a wonderful week! se cuidam!
Sister Walker
Ps.
here are pics of the baptisms this week, one picture of all of us with Irma Nayara
who’s our friend in the ward, and us with the nice brother in the ward who
helped us clear out the sick nasty water in the font with buckets!
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