Well this week has been a crazy great week! I am loving and working and serving as much as I can and the blessings are coming in! We have been blessed to start off the month with 3 baptisms and we still have a lot to come. the first baptism we had was our own personal miracle. if you guys remember about 3 weeks ago I told you about a miracle that we had but I didn't want to share it just yet..? Well his name is Jose he is the single man that we baptised. His story is pretty amazing. He was the member of a part member family that had received the missionaries for 9 years. He never decided to be baptised because he never felt it was the right time or missionaries. Well he liked to drink and honestly if you ask him he will tell that he was a drunk. Well three weeks ago we got a call from his sister telling us that he wanted to hear the missionaries that kept coming to the house to visit the family. (his wife, daughters, mom, brother, and sisters are all members) so we recieved the call and went to visit him and while we were teaching him he told us that he felt that we were the missionaries that should baptise him and that now was the time. so after 1 week of teaching and preparation he was finally baptised after 9 years of hearing the messages. so he was our blessing!!
The other two baptisms were a contact in front of the church one day and we finally were able to marry and baptise them this week! The only problem was we didn't have water or electricity in the church because someone forgot to pay the bill... so when we got to the church to fill the baptismal font and found out there was no water we went to the member that lives next to the chapel and asked if we could fill buckets for the baptism. well after 4 hours of filling buckets and running them into the church the font was finally full of water (or sweat not really sure which one it was...) but ya the miracles continue to come to my area each and every day!!
As well we were taught a new principle by our counselor in the area 70. he taught us to be more direct in our way of talking to people and inviting them. he told us of when he was a misison president how he would go up to people to contact on door steps and in the street and tell them " hi we are here to prepare you to be baptised into the only true church on the face of the earth!" well we all thought he was crazy but he promised us that if we would try it that it would work for us. And so.... well, my comp. and I went to contact a house saturday night and i well i felt that i should say that so when we walked up to the house and the lady came to the door she asked us how can I help you guys, so I said " well actually we have come here to prepare you to be baptised in the only true church on the face of the earth" well first off my companion just looks at me like I have gone crazy and the lady responded "that would be great!" so we taught her and now she is preparing to be baptised in a month. ya we are kind of crazy but the promise is true. :) but I hope you all have a great week!!!! I love you all and I hope things are going great in school and work! take care and I will write you all next week!
Elder Austin Ferrin
This is my convert from october. We were passing his house and offered to help him unload his truck. he sells pipas which is just a coconut cut open that has been chilled in a cooler. They are super super delicious and super cheap, but of course I always have them for free. :) But we helped him unload over 1000 from the truck and you can see a few in the pictures and this was a day that we went on divisions so that is why I am with elder kirk.
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