This week Cristino was able to baptize Pablo! Cristino was the first person I invited to baptism and I was lucky enough to baptize him myself and also witness him baptize someone else! Samuel Chapter 16 Verse 7 comes to mind
For the Lord seeth not as man
He wasn´t even nervous and he did a great job. Elder Rojas and I teach the Gospel Principles class in our branch and we always start with introductions because we have new investigators come every week. This week the introductions were to say your name and something you liked to do in December. When it was Cristino´s turn he said that his favorite thing to do in December was to meet with us, the missionaries. He said we changed his life and started to cry. Certainly a tender moment.
Yesterday I also received the news that for the next three months I will stay here in Gualan and have the opportunity to train a new missionary! I don´t know who it is or his name, where he´s from, or anything but I´ll let you guys know next week.
Love you all! I´m doing great here and I hope you guys are doing equally as well!
Elder Dawson
(Answers to Mom's Questions:)
Did you get Grandma's package?
Yes I did, I´ll send her an email right after this. That was really nice of her.
What kind of traditions do they have for New Years?
Get drunk and use fireworks haha. Everything here was closed on New Years Day which I thought was weird. It was like a ghost town. In America a bunch of stuff is still open on New Years Day.
Do you want more beef jerky or any specific sour candy or treat?
If you want you can, people here always like that stuff! What I would really like is if you could send me the little black player thing that I have. You can put a flash drive in the front and play videos on a TV. To work it needs AV cords, not HDMI because nobody has that here, the charger, and the remote is also super important. I have no idea where it is but if you could try to find it and ship it to me that would be great. Ask Jayden, he should know what it is and what it needs to work. I asked my leaders if I could have it and they said it was cool. I just want to use it because we like to watch videos with members or investigators but a lot of times they don't have a dvd player or their dvd player is really old and won't work with a DVD that you can make on the computer. Also if you can send me my purple flash drive with 32 gigabyte that would be sweet. Then we can share conference messages and stuff with our investigators super easily. And it would be even better if you could get Jayden to download a bunch of church videos in Spanish and put it on the drive because the internet here is so slow. If you have time to do that it would be amazing!
Was Cristino able to do the baptism this week?
Yes! We were so happy. I call myself a baptism grandpa now! He memorized all the words and everything, it was so sweet.
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| Elder Rojas, Cristino, Pablo, Elder Dawson |
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