July 31, 2013 "The Water is Back Baby"

 July 31, 2013

Dear Family,

On thursday they got to the point where they could connect the water to our house again so we spent the morning deep cleaning the house and it was great! We now have water and I can now bathe myself out of a bucket in peace.

On Thursday or Friday Elder De La Cruz called me to tell me that Victor´s baptism might get called off because as Elder De La Cruz reviewed the baptismal interview questions with him he discovered that he had participated in an abortion some time ago. In cases such as these the investigator usually needs an interview with the mission president but Elder De La Cruz called Pres. Douglas and told him the situation and Pres. Douglas simply asked him what he thought. Considering all the factors and especially the fact that Pres. Douglas had had an interview with Victor on Sunday Elder De La Cruz told him that he felt good baptizing him. so Pres. Douglas gave the green light.

So on Saturday july 27, 2013 Victor diaz loreno was baptized by the first counselor in the branch presidency-Franqueli Quiterio. Victor had originally asked me to baptize him but Elder De La Cruz helped him choose Franqueli instead. Which I´m happy about because it´s always better to have a member baptize investigators so they can have that support. I would have done the same thing. Although I´ve helped a few people get baptized I personally have only baptized one person-enmanuel luna july 7, 2012- and I´m okay with that. if I can help every investigator choose a member over me that´s a win win for me because the member has the spiritual experience and connection of baptizing that investigator and the investigator will always have that member by their side.

it was really cool to see the folks of Conani again.

we played basketball this morning and I played 3 hours straight. feels good to run! i was an idiot and didn´t put on sunscreen that I had brought with me so now I´m reder than a tomato and some dominican guy actaully yelled at me ¨hey americano don´t go out in the sun as much!¨ I guess I never learn... I´m always pink but now I´m bright bright bright red......it hurts...... you never notice while you´re playing and it´s only afterwards that you regret or rather I regret my foolishness...

crispy