so sat we had temple tour and then cat cat got baptized with two other young men. she is 16 yata and super excited. her family all investigated the church a couple years ago, she wanted to be baptized then, but her parents thought she wasn't old enough or something. now she has permission so she's stoked. her family is supportive and it sounds like her dad is interested, he just works all the time so we'll see if we can find to teach them all.
We just found out you have to live the word of wisdom a full 4 weeks before you can get baptized. which is good. but also lame. we have a ten year old that was like born ready to be baptized but we just taught him the WOW today and his bap was supposed to be on march 9th but we'll probs have to move it cuz apparently he drinks some drink that has tea in it. lame.
That's our biggest problem of late. but james is doing great, no alcohol or cigarettes for the last two weeks so he's getting baptized the 16th! and Maricon we just set a bap date for the 16th buuuut she like lives off coffee when she has her night shift job every other week. rough. i have no idea what the average baptism number is in my mission, i only know that my lola (trainer's trainer) had 12 when she went home and before i came sister garcia had one yata and she had been here 8 months when i got here. this area is definitely on fire and it has nothing to do with me. all of our baptisms are just people that were really prepared and really excited to live the gospel! most of them are referrals from members too!
Malou (Mariz's mom) is getting baptized on Sat and she's way ready buuuut she still wears pants to church every week. idk what that's about.
people are starting to talk about transfers which is crazy. we really have no idea what will happen this transfer. it should be exciting though.
I swear you're secretly in communication with my mission president. at our zone conference our mission president's wife printed us all off two pages from that book and talked about it a bunch. seems like a good un. [Greg had just emailed her about the book "The Power of Everyday Missionaries" by Clayton Christensen]
This weekend was naked weekend. we saw way too many naked people. mostly kids....
We also had a really disturbing experience yesterday on the way home from church. we were walking home and a man that we see everyday just fell straight back off the sidewalk into the street. he cracked his head open on the street and was lying there with blood coming out of the back of his head. by the time we got there he was moving again but still bleeding a lot. we had no idea what to do. we don't know the emergency number here to call an ambulance. there were a ton of people around but no one was really taking any action. we told a tricycle driver that the man needed to be taken to the hospital (implying that he should take him on his tryc) and he was like did someone kill him? is he drunk? ooooohhh. that's all! then just went back to what he was doing. by the time we came back that way it was all cleared up and the man was gone, i have no idea if he lived or died. everyone was just like he's a drunk, whatevs. the whole thing kinda made me sick. just glad i have a companion with me all the time that would do something if i was bleeding out of the back of my head like that.
On a happier note, yesterday we went on splits for the first time. so i was with a rm sister in the ward the whole afternoon! it was super weird to have to teach without sister garcia cuz we totally have a system down pat. but it was good to see what i can do on my own. pretty much the member just testified of what i said or shared an experience. so i taught a lot. it went pretty well. and we got so much done! we might be going on splits every sunday from now on.
This morning we got roped into helping the elders make some mormon message.... we'll see how that goes lolz
That's pretty much all that's happening over here! we're having a ward missionary fireside on sunday and President Sperry is coming to speak. im kinda nervous about how it's gonna turn out, imma be honest with you. but we're not in charge of it sooo i can't control that. tell you how it goes next week!
peace out,
sister jones
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