We Had an Excellent Week
We had an excellent week to say the least. It started off pretty good, preparing everything for the Lopez family baptism. On Tuesday, we had an appointment with them. But first, we went to dinner with the Kimbrell family. We ate sufficiently there, but as we arrived at the Lopez’ house with Brother Kimbrell, we realized that they were also cooking us dinner. Well, there is no way to say no to hispanics, so we stuffed ourself with another meal. It was great fun!!
On Friday, we had the baptismal interview, so the ZL’s had exchanges with us. And I went all the way down to Durham to work for a day. That was actually a lot of fun being in a big city again, but it made me miss the small town atmosphere a little bit. Or maybe, it is just that I have been in this type of atmosphere for a while know…who knows. But Luis, Ofelia and Alberto passed the interview!! So, everything was set and ready for the next day.
So, Saturday was a super cool day. We taught Billy and some Mexicans in the morning and then we went to the Bentleys for lunch. They are so much fun…a pretty young couple. Brother Bentley told me all about the Boise State-Oklahama game and some other football summaries. It was fun. Then we did a few more things in the afternoon, and then went to the church to fill up the font. And before we knew it, the Lopez family had arrived and everyone else. It was one sweet baptismal service…tons of people were there…probably more than half of them were americans who didn’t speak spanish. But everyone was way excited that it was a family. Elder Ferons baptized Luis, the father. I followed with Ofelia, the mom and then President Culler baptized Alberto. The spirit was super strong and everyone really enjoyed it. We sang “families can be together forever” for the closing song…and I really felt good…I would like to be there when they go to the temple…that would be awesome. So, the next day was the confirmations. And we all were together (hispanics and english), and I confirmed Luis a member of the church, Brother Jester confirmed Ofelia and Elder Ferons confirmed Alberto. We had a ton of fun and then we chilled with Bob in the afternoon.
Well, that is about it…we should have a baptism for the next two weeks.
Elder Hardy