Week 6

May 25, 2009

Hellooooo!
How are you all doing? Things have been pretty good here.....this week has been such a blur to me! haha, I'll try to rack my brain and remember what happened. Well, of course the biggest thing that happened is my first baptism!!! Joan Rios got baptized on Saturday (5/23) Yay!! It turned out really well and it was such a happy time. :) It was funny though, she is a 77 year old woman and the man that baptized her is just about her age. They have been friends for 20 years plus and he is in our ward, so she wanted him to baptize her. Well when the actual "baptism" part happened, I was praying and praying so hard that they wouldn't fall over! hahaha! I was so worried that she wouldn't be able to bend back very well and worried that he wouldn't be able to lift her back up!! Well, it's good to say that they didn't fall over at all :) Although it was very, very slow getting her back up. But it all worked out wonderfully and she's now a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints! It was also pretty cool because the week before the baptism she kept telling us that she didn't think any of her family would come. But half way during the program (unfortunately after the actual baptism) one of her sons and grandsons showed up! Atleast they came in support. It was good to see them there!
Last Tuesday, we had a New Missionary Luncheon at the mission home. They do that with all the new missionaries 3-4 weeks into the transfer, so I got to see all the elders that I came out with again and their trainers. It was great to see them again and hear about how their first few weeks. They are all awesome missionaries! I really wish I could remember more about what happened this week! I feel like the majority of it was planning the baptism. Usually the ward mission leader does that I guess, but he was out of town and the bishop is out of town. So we had to do a lot of it ourselves. So maybe thats why I can't remember a whole lot of anything else! Anyway, I'll probably have more exciting things to tell you next week! But I sure do love you all! Thanks for your support!!!
Love, Sister LaMont