It´s November! Next month I will have been in the mission for a year. I am starting to freak out a little bit because after my one year mark comes Christmas, then New Years, and then there will only be six more months until I come home. That´s too soon! Ok, I am getting a little ahead of myself, November just started.
So
I am still loving being Sister Blair´s companion. It is such a small
world, too, because we discovered today that one of my friends from
college is the daughter-in-law of one of her super good family friends. I
hope you understood that haha. How funny, huh?
Last
week was really busy and passed by so quickly. On Halloween, Sister
Blair and I dressed in orange and black in honor of the holiday we
weren´t celebrating. That same day we also had the lock on our apartment
door break and had to call a locksmith to change out the lock. Friday
we helped the bishop and his wife do some food storage stuff for their
house. We were putting beans into cleaned out Coca-Cola 2 liter bottles.
Saturday night the ward had a talent show that was a success! So many
people came out to watch and perform. Of course I had to miss the last
act because we had to be home at 9:30pm and the show was running late. I
was bummed but that´s ok.
Yesterday,
Gilmar was baptized! Like always, the ward was very supportive. A lot
of people came out and brought refreshments and whatnot. To give a quick
background on Gilmar, he has been an investigator since July. My first
month in this area he stopped going to church even though he had been
attending pretty regularly. Then, he called us one night to tell us he
didn´t want to meet with us anymore because he was going to go back to
his old church. Since Gilmar had met with the missionaries in July he
had stopped smoking, drinking and had made a lot of changes in his life.
That night we went to his house and met with him. We told him he needed
to do his part, namely go to church and read the scriptures, to know
what he really wanted to do.
From that night
on we started calling him every night to see if he had read that day.
Sometimes we would call at 10pm and he would say he hadn´t read so we
would tell him he had 25 minutes to read before we called back haha.
Tough love (or just plain annoying), but it totally worked. Once he
started reading daily he started coming to church and decided he wanted
to be baptized. He was so happy yesterday after the baptism :) The best
part was he had been a little unsure about getting baptized, but during
church yesterday so many people as part of their testimony commented to
him from the pulpit that getting baptized is the best thing he could do
and he would never regret it. We hadn´t told anybody about his doubts
but clearly the Spirit was working in them. It was awesome for him to
get so many reassurances the day of his baptism. He even brought a
friend to church and to his baptism!
Fernanda
is still doing great. We wanted to pass by her house to bring her to
the baptism but we were running late so didn´t have time. When we got to
the chapel she was already here practicing with the choir! She went to
Institute on Saturday and is totally taking charge of her own
fellowshipping. We don´t even sit by her in the classes or sacrament
anymore because she already has a group of friends. Iolita, too, doesn´t
sit with us anymore because she sits with another family.
Ok,
I have more to write but this email turned out to be really long so I
will leave it at this for now. Hope you are all happy and healthy! Oh
yeah, you guys got to "fall back" an hour but two weeks ago we had to
"spring ahead" here. Lame. So now I am 6 hours ahead of west coast time
just as an FYI. Anyway, love you all very much!!
Love,
Sister Kerr
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| Gilmar´s baptism :) (obviously) |
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