6/23/14

So long my beloved sun.

Hola hola hola!!

Well today marks the end of the training of my first begotten elder

Solá.  It is amazing how fast the time is going.  We got here to this

area with out anything in the area book, but we were able to hit the

ground running and get some serious work done.  The Lord has blessed

us so much with people who wanted to listen.  And due to our diligence

in studying and working hard, and our obedience we were able to find a

whole lot of them.  Tonight they will call us for changes, and we will

see what the future holds.  We got back on track this week with two

baptisms, and one confirmation, which means we are running 4 weeks

straight confirming..wooo!!!

This week the first baptism was Jesus.  He is an older man he has 65

years and a great sense of humor...a little crude haha, but he always

has us laughing.  His wife has been a member for 20 years, but he

never wanted to accept the missionaries.  He was a big time alcoholic

(started at age 8...only in mexico) and never took things seriously.

That is until Solá and Jacobsen showed up.  We were able to have a

great lesson with him about a month ago and he accepted to start

coming to church.  He also started reading the book of mormon, and

with that he stopped drinking! His baptism was funny because he has

really bad knees so we had to sit him in a chair to be able to baptize

him, and the whole time he was making comments about how we finally

"trapped him haha".  The best part was when his wife bore her

testimony at the end and bawled the whole time.  She is the happiest

out of all of us.  Now on to the Temple!

We also baptized Daniel.  He contacted us on the street and thats how

we started teaching him.  He was also able to overcome lots of

challenges, including a deaf dueña ha.  But he showed up to his

baptism with a white shirt and tie and a smile that was from ear to

ear.  The brother that we had baptize him was not going to have

another repeat of the 5 attempts it took amauri, so he basically threw

him into the water and created a pretty good size wave that entered

the bathroom haha...one of these days we will get the baptism thing

right.

The family Alonzo Torres is doing amazing.  They are getting baptized

this week.  The bad part is that one of us wont be here...and we won't

know till tonight ha.  But this family has a spirit in their home now.

They have been reading and praying and it shows.  We had a lesson last

night where I thought that my chest was going to burst with the

spirit.  WE asked Valeria how she felt and she said that it was

something differen t but good.  That she didn't want it to leave.

They are going to have this spirit with them forever now.  I am so

glad the Lord led us to their door!

Well its been a heck of a ride here in Elizondo.  We'll see what the

lord has next for me...but I am ready to go and do!

Elder Jacobsen