Well, this past week I hit 16 months being a missionary, it is pretty crazy to think a year ago I was still in my training and now I am 2/3s done with my mission. Time goes by pretty fast...
Anyways this week was a pretty solid week, we had back to back baptisms. One on Saturday and then we had one on Sunday. The first one we had on Saturday went pretty much smoothly, nothing really bad happened and everyone showed up on time. On Saturday Scarlett got baptized, we had found her last transfer and hadn't missed a single week going to church and pretty much wanted to be baptized since the 2nd week when we knew her. Sadly her mom, Shirley, can't be baptized because she isn't married, but is very determined to follow her Savior and be baptized. We will see if she ends up ditching the guy she is living with or if they end up getting married haha.
Then on Sunday our referred amigo Byron got baptized. We had his baptism on Sunday since he works Monday through Saturday 6 to 10 every single night without fail. And not this past Sunday but last Sunday we found out he needed another interview with President or one of his counselors. P day night I was pretty frustrated because I was almost certain that he wasn't going to be able to have the interview, but Wednesday night they ended up having the interview and he passed it. After being baptized and confirmed, he gave a very powerful testimony on the Prophet Joseph Smith and how the Lord guided him to His church. He said he was reading in 1 Corinthians and read Chapter 12 verse 28, which says "And God hath set some in the church, first apostles, secondarily prophets, thirdly teachers, after that miracles, then gifts of healings, helps, governments, diversities of tongues."
After reading that scripture he felt he needed to find a church that was guided by a prophet and apostles and he was about to find it through a Facebook announcement. Fun fact is that his dad was a member before he passed away and it came to Byron´s mind to find the church his dad went to. In his testimony he mentioned that he felt his dad and the Lord guiding him to discover His church. It was a very powerful testimony and a very spiritual moment.
Other than that nothing too crazy happened this week, we had intercambios with a sector where we had to take buses to get to different little towns and it was a little weird. Actually the Elder had a reassignment in the Iquitos Peru mission which was kind of funny to hear how that mission is.
Anyways pretty crazy to think que solo me falta 8 meses más. It will go by super quick.
Love you all
Elder Roper
