It was such a good week! Luis Carlos got baptized and received the priesthood. And even though he was baptized at 8 in the morning about 30 people came! It was so good! He came to church last week and went to a special family history class that they were giving and now is excited to go to the temple to do baptisms for his family! It's always really neat to see how excited people get about the restored gospel!
Also... I'll try to
tell the quick version of the crazy stuff that happened last week... It
won't be as good or detailed as the first time around, but whatever.
After the baptism a member called us and said that she was really worried about her daughter
that lived way out in the rainforest with her mom. She said that lately her
daughter had been complaining of hearing voices and seeing dark shadows
in her room. One night she woke up at 3 in the morning because she felt
like somebody was choking her. Weird stuff, right? When she told us
that, I said to her (jokingly) "well it looks like you're in luck,
because I've been practicing my latin and I just restocked on my holy
water... so let's do an exorcism!!" When the member heard that she said,
"That sounds like a perfect idea!!" So.... off we went. We left the
members house at about 2 on a Sunday and started walking under the
midday sun for TWO AND A HALF HOURS through dense rainforest We finally
got to the little house in the middle of nowhere and we were met by a
really nice family of 6. They were all baptized a long time ago, but
stopped going to church because the people stopped visiting them because
they lived so dang far away. After a little bit of talking we got down
to business and started to ask the daughter what was going on... after
she shared a little bit we decided that we needed to give her a blessing. When we were giving her the blessing she started
falling over... and started breathing kind of funny. When the blessing
was finished she ran over to her mom and said that she couldn't breathe
and burst into tears. The mom got all freaked out because she said that
she had never seen her daughter cry like this before. Then the daughter said that
she wanted to throw up and yeah... It was quite the experience. After
that we headed back up the mountain and through
the rainforest, barely arriving at our house before 9.
Well
I guess that's a quick review of last week. This week not much has
happened... I've been pretty sick with a virus thats been going around,
but finally after 5 days I'm starting to feel a little better. I can't
wait to feel 100% again so that I can work hard. Being sick on the
mission is no fun... pray for me!
Since I've been sick I don't
really have much to share... I took advantage of my downtime and now
I've almost finished Jesus the Christ... so I guess that's good? haha
Our
cook also moved farther away and so now we have to walk a little longer
to get to her house On the way I found a goat... so I'll attach a
picture of my new friend to make up for the lame week!
Also, there are some crazy grasshoppers that are all over the place over here! They are so scary looking!
Hopefully this email will get to you.
Love you all!
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| Beautiful and scary grass hoppers! |
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| Some members heard Chase wasn't feeling well so that brought him a huge hamburger. |
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| Wow!!! |
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