Week 97

Hola Everyone!

This week has been a little crazy, but super awesome! We sure have seen many miracles and blessings that the Lord has given us the chance to be a part of! So to start off the week, my old companion, Elder Johnson, went home. Then on Tuesday, I traveled to the city of Oaxaca and we had a conference with our Mission President and all the leaders in the mission. That was awesome! The best thing about the trip was I didn't even puke!!!! Anyways, from there I met my companion, Elder Wright, from good ol Sandy, Utah. We headed back to Juchitan - about a 6 and a half hour drive (when they're not blocking the freeway, ha).

So we got back her to Juchitan on Thursday and we got to work. We went with an investigator that's name is Eduardo, but we call him Lalito. He has now gone to church five times with us. He's super awesome, but he's really unsure on if he wants to get baptized or not. So we watched a super awesome video on the Book of Mormon and afterwards we asked him to be baptized. He told us he was still undecided. So we asked him if he would say the prayer and ask our Heavenly Father if he should be baptized on the 6th of July. So he said the prayer and he asked his Heavenly Father if he should be baptized on the 6th of July. We told him after the prayer we were going to keep our eyes closed and pay real close attention to the feelings that came to us. So he finished the prayer and we stayed with our eyes closed and our heads bowed for like a minute. I looked up and he still had his eyes closed and his head bowed. Like 45 seconds later, he opened his eyes and we asked him how he felt. He said, "I want to be baptized!!!!" That was such an amazing moment for me and such a miracle! He told us he realized what we taught him that, "I know I need to be baptized to enter into God's Kingdom." So he will be getting baptized this Saturday!!!!!!!!!!

Also, Saul - a super awesome little kid that's just 10 years old - will be getting baptized on the 13th of July!! Goodness, I know that the Lord loves us and blesses us as we keep His commandments. I love you all so dang much and I hope you all have an amazing week!!

Elder Blake