April 25, 2011

Hola familia. I hope that everything is going good in the states. Things are going great for me right now. I am in Bajio for one more cambio for sure with my companion. It's good and I'm very glad it turned out this way because we are having great success. We asked another guy who is 20 years old if he would be baptized. We have been working with him for a few weeks and his parents don't really want him to be baptized. But he wants to be and knows that all of this is true. He is a great guy, and has gone to church off and on for the entire 3 months that I've been here. As of now, he attends every week. It's great. But what is truly special, is that my comp asked if he felt responsible to make this decision to be baptized. He said yes. We then asked "when do you think we can schedule the date for you to be baptized? He then asked me when I would probably be leaving Bajio? I said that probably the first days of June. He then said "well I want you to baptize me before you leave, and I want a photo with you at my baptism. This was way special and hit me way hard. I felt way blessed to be able to have this privilege. This mostly happened through being a good friend. Then we also had to ask this other guy's parents, who is 17 years old for their permission for him to be baptized. So when we were teaching him, his mom was there and we asked him to bring her over so that we could ask her for her permission. So she came over and we told her about his decision to be baptized because he had prayed and knew that he should do this because he will belong to the true Church. She didn't answer us for like a minute while she was thinking. Then she said that we had her permission and that he could be baptized. She also said that after we teach him, we can teach her and her husband. This was an awesome experience. Then after this, she invited us to eat. It was very cool. But a funny story now is that my comp and I were invited to go and eat at our conversos house, and she had this plate of food that didn't look very good. So my comp started to take out his camera and then I asked him why are you taking a pic. He said in Spanish so I can say, and then in English he said "I eat this crap!" ha ha. It was way funny, and the green food was pretty nasty. But things are good. We have 2 baptisms for the 7th of May and 1 baptism for the 28th of May. We will work hard to obtain more. But I love you guys so much and miss you a ton! Love, Elder Christoffersen