Family and friends,
It was another good week. Kinda stressful working out all the
details of a baptism but it will work. Baby Ann's baptism will be on
Sunday. She is 17 and their whole family just doesn't talk! They are all
so shy. So when we were asking Baby Ann who she wanted to talk at her
baptism/who she wanted to baptize her/what songs we should sing/when it
should be, she gave little to zero input. So I volunteered myself to
baptize her and we set up the rest of it all by ourselves... I just hope
she shows up!! So we set it up for Saturday at 6. But then bishop said
that wouldn't work for him and he really wants to be there. So we
rescheduled for Friday at 8. But that didn't work for our WML or for
Sister Bedoya who is going to speak at the baptism. So we moved it to
Sunday after church. Which is fathers day... But it was the best we
could do!
We got a referral on Tuesday morning from Brother Hale, who is the
Ward Mission Leader of the YSA branch. He told us that there was a
brother who had showed up to church a couple times but he is 33 so he is
too old to go to the YSA. So he sent him to us. We went over there
Tuesday night and after 10 minutes of knowing him, I put him on date for
July 7th. As I was extending the invitation I didn't realize what I was
saying. So I asked "Will you follow the example of Jesus Christ by
being baptized by someone holding the priesthood authority of God?" He
said yes. And I was going to stop there. But then the Spirit opened my
mouth again and I said "We will be holding a baptismal service on July
7th, will you prepare yourself to be baptized on that date?" and he
thought about it for a couple seconds and shrugged his shoulders and
said "umm, yeah". It was awesome! His name is Isaac Verduzco. And he
came to church! He looked awesome. Hopefully we can keep that up.
We taught 28 lessons again. We always have something to do. We
received 4 referrals on Sunday. We are going to see Casandra and Gavin
again this week! Im super excited for that. That will be on Thursday.
She didn't come to church again this sunday but maybe next week... I
hope she is still interested.
Elder Barton is doing well back home. Apparently the issues with
his sinuses were worse than they thought so he probably wont be coming
back which is a real shame. Darn.
We got a text from Natalia telling us she moved to California and
she would be there for 6 weeks so she could be closer to her deported
husband... So we texted her back the next day and she told us she
actually hadn't left yet. So we went over and talked to her. At the end
of the meeting I think we left her with an understanding that she needs
to follow the law. Always. And we suggested that she should go through
the process of getting her husband legal so that she doesn't have to
worry about all the other things that are bothering them.
Linda is turning herself in to the police to get rid of a warrant
that was out for her arrest. She had a DUI that she never served time
for. She said that it should be about 30 days. Maybe less. So that's
kinda a good thing I guess. She is trying to turn her life around.
Connie Acosta came to church with her family!! (The ramirez
family). She is still planning on getting married on August 4th and
baptized on the 11th. They just need to keep coming to church!!
Love you all!!!
Thank you for your prayers
Elder Paxman
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