Our miracle boy!

Transfers where super different this week but I really enjoyed it. I got to see some of my missionary friends I haven't seen in a REALLY LONG time! Some I probably won't see for a while since they are going home soon. It was a really neat how they went this time around. We all sat in the chapel according to our zone. Then President Hall read the changes one zone at a time and after he finished reading the changes in the zone everyone would quickly switch. This was done until the very last zone had been read. There were some big surprises...well I don't know if I would call them surprises but one companionship was announced and lots of missionaries in my zone started laughing. I can't really describe it but two missionaries got put together and it will be an interesting experience. I bet it will be super fun though. My new companion is Hermana Prince. I don't know if you remember but we were on exchanges a few transfers ago for a day. She is great. She is a really hard worker. I am a little scared I won't be able to keep up with her but we will see! haha!

 

We had the baptism yesterday for my miracle boy. Do you remember I told you about him a few weeks ago? He is the one that called us and wanted to be baptized. Well he got baptized yesterday! It was my first time being in charge of a baptism. I was a little stressed. It was a learning process for me. I was fine until one of the people we thought would be there with keys ended up not coming. It all worked out. I learned a lot and hopefully the next time around things will be more smooth.

Oh! hahaha! Guess what?! Okay well, this 17 year old who got baptized yesterday found the church from his English speaking girlfriend. They have been dating for 2 years. When he planned the program he decided he wanted her to speak on baptism..... IN ENGLISH and this was fine except for the fact that Hermana Zepeda my previous SPANISH speaking companion was giving the talk on the Holy Ghost. And that was fine except my current companion who has been out for a little over a year has had a sore throat.... WHICH MEANT.... I was left to translate this talk from English to Spanish. haha I wish you could have been there. Oh geez! First I was super nervous so I didn't want to look at anyone so I decided to look at her paper that she was reading her talk from. I probably shouldn't have tried to translate from the paper but rather listen to what she said and translate that way. Second, I was doing fine until she said the words "In Titus....." She used a scripture in her talk and I had no clue how to translate it. I didn't even know how to say "Titus" in Spanish so instead I said the words "en las escrituras" meaning in the scriptures. haha! It was really funny. I wonder if maybe it would have been better to go without the translation and just let those Spanish speakers feel her spirit. It was funny because afterwards I talked to this super awesome couple who is here living until December. They said that when I got to the scriptures I pulled it off really well....or something along those lines. Oh man this makes me laugh everytime I tell it. I have been laughing the whole time I was writing! haha I wish you could have been there or I caught it on video. I think it would be America's Funniest Home Video's material!

 

Our miracle this week was something the 17 year has hoped for since day 1. When we first met him a few weeks ago he told us that he wanted to be baptized. I think we talk for 10 minutes about how he hoped that as he made the decision to go to church and get baptized. He hoped his family would follow in his footsteps. His family had taken the missionary lesson once before but weren't progressing at all so the missionaries stopped teaching them. When he told his mom he wanted to get baptized she started being more curious about what he was doing. We taught a few times one time we tried committ her to a baptismal date but she didn't want to set something without talking to her husband. One of the lessons we had with her this last week her son with us. He was talking to his girlfriend about something while we were committing her to a specific date. She orignally wanted to get baptized in February but we moved it up to November 25th. The day after her sons birthday. We set the date and then turned to him and said "Hey your mom has a date for baptism!" (since he wasn't really paying attention). I will never forget the look on his face! He stopped mid sentence to whatever he had been talking about. His mouth dropped and he was completely frozen. We all kind of just sat there waiting for him to say something but then the tears started to roll down his cheeks. He had to hide his face cause he was a little embarrassed. We told him when it was and that he will probably be able to baptism them. What a miracle eh? All that he wanted since day 1 was to have his family hopefully join him and it is happening just in time for a sweet birthday present. It is a miracle that we have been blessed to be a part of.

I think that is all I have this week. I have a lot more time this week to write letters. I have a lot to catch up on. Sorry I have been slacking. I hope you all forgive me!

 

Love you! Hermana Fish