Tuesday, December 28, 2010

A Very Short Letter, 11/29/10

Here is what I wrote to my mission president this week:
On Saturday we had a baptism! An 8 year old sister of a recent convert was baptized. Her name is Carmina and she has a lot of personality. Teaching her and bringing her to church sometimes required a lot of patience because she is still learning how to listen and be reverent, but I´ve really learned to love her. I´ve seen a change in her too since we began teaching her-- she is more ready to listen and try to be polite and kind to those around her. She was so excited all week long to be baptized and wanted to invite lots of people! I´m so happy that she was baptized. Her baptism was really neat because her mother, who isn´t a member, and one of her nonmember friends from the neighborhood, came too. And one of our investigators showed up! I hope Carmina´s mother will see the example of her two baptized children and want to be baptized too. Also, Carmina´s older sister Lumila loved the baptism and says she wants to be baptized too! Hermana Scott and I have been kind of stressed out about our investigators Mario and Celeste and their family. We´ve seen loads of miracles with them and everything seemed near perfect until Celeste told Hermana Scott while I was on divisions that sometimes things aren't very good in their and that's why she has been dragging her feet about getting married. We want them to be able to get baptized, but we want Celeste and here kids to be safe. When Mario is with us he seems to treat his family well and have sincere desires to repent, be baptized, be a good church member and a better husband/father, etc. I think he needs help to understand how his family is suffering because of his actions and to accept more responsibility for things that he´s done, but I think he is sincere and really feels the Spirit when he comes to church and listens to us. When we visited on Sunday Mario and Celeste were acting like everything was fine between them and talking about going to start the paperwork for their marriage. I obviously want them to be able to be baptized and receive those blessings, but I don´t know how to help Celeste if she is sometimes unhappy and unsafe. What would you do if you were us in this situation?

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