I suppose an apology is due first, I forgot that yesterday was Zone Conference, so Pday got moved to today. It's actually kind of a bummer. We have a Zone barbeque planned and yesterday was the perfect weather, today is dark and rainy. But that's ok. So, I guess to start off, Zone Conference was awesome. Monday morning instead of my usual district meeting the zone leaders called a special meeting to chastise the district for lacking in the numbers department. For the most part it was not directed towards me and Bao. But everyone learned something, and I think we'll all be better missionaries for it.
That night me and Bao went and stayed in the ZL's apartment to save having to drive to Pasco in the morning. Due to a lack of beds I slept back to back with Elder Huff who is my mission brother (we had the same trainer or "papi") about half way through the night I ended up on the floor because I just did not have enough room. Pretty lousy night's sleep, but that's ok. The next morning was Zone Conference which was focused all on the importance of using the Book of Mormon with our investigators. We all took a lot away from it.
Yes all of our baptisms went through. Maria Elena's baptism went great, there was no one there at the start of it, but by the end of it there was a good crowd from the branch. The branch president baptized her and Elder Bao confirmed her on sunday. Also we are now teaching two of her sons who will be baptized a week from Saturday which is exciting. Because it was her birthday we bought her a cake for the baptism. We asked the guy to write felicitaciones (or congrats) on the cake. About half way through the writing he asks us if it's ok if he puts a hyphen and continues below. Well, at that point it was a little late to ask us if it was ok, but yeah sure go for it, we didn't want to be rude. When he gave us the cake we saw that the skill level was just about as good as I could have done. We had a good laugh about it in the car ride home. He was a nice guy, and it was free, so we can't complain.
The other baptism for Eli and Kaily also went as planned. Kaily's uncle baptized her and Eli's friend baptized him. It was really cool, there was such a huge turn out from the ward that we had to have the service in the chapel to fit everyone. On Sunday I confirmed Eli, and one of the bishopric confirmed Kaily. Both of them have said how they have friends who want to talk to us, so the work will continue to go because of them.
On Friday we had Juan a recent convert come out with us. It was a lot of fun, and it ended up being a super productive day so he got to be a part of several lessons which was cool. It really got him excited for serving a mission which was good. We had a really funny experience at one door in particular. I won't get into the details but I was laughing pretty hard at the lady while trying to give my door approach while Bao and Juan did their best to stifle their laughing. But don't worry, we didn't offend her, we even got let in and taught a lesson. It was a fun day.
So that was the week. With all the baptisms we still had a super productive week with all our lessons. Yay exito! Happy bday to cody., Congrats on getting home soon to Eric. And mike and Jess, hope all is well with yall. Whit, I enjoy your blog each week.
Remember, the church is true. God loves you, and thank you for love and support. Enjoy the pictures!
Love,
Elder Richards
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