We had a great week! It went by so quickly because I spent two days in La Punta. One day was with Elder Mann and another day was with Elder Jordan. We got a lot of work done. I learned a ton from both of them. We had the district of excellence this week.
When I was with Elder Mann on Tuesday, our main focus was to try to baptize Fergie, a nine year old girl that has been ready to be baptized since May, but is afraid of getting into water. Every time she has a baptismal date, she isn´t able to get baptized. So we filled up the font and invited her to the church and showed her the full font and asked her if she wanted to get baptized. She said yes, but as soon as she touched the water she decided that she didn´t want to do it. So we didn't pressure her. I wanted to try and use what I had learned as a swim teacher to try and get her to feel more comfortable in the water, but I can´t do that as a missionary.
So they tried every day this week to baptized her, and on Wednesday they were able to preform the baptism, but her hand didn´t go into the water and they had to do it again, and she didn´t want to try again. So she still hasn´t gotten baptized. But other than that, we had a great day on Tuesday.
On Wednesday, with Elder Jordan, we visited an 11 year old recent convert named Dominic, and his 12 year old friend Claudio was over at his house, and we taught him a little and invited him to baptism and he said yes, and he came to church yesterday. And he knows a few of the young men in La Punta.
We baptized Josael and Marco! I´m sending pictures. It was really funny in the baptism because Marco is really old, and the water was ice cold, and I was afraid that he wasn´t going to be able to handle the cold. But I baptized him and when he came out of the water, he dove back in, then dove back in again, and then wiped the water out of his eyes and shouted "the water feels great!". Josael got baptized and it was a great baptismal service.
Magdalena is also getting baptized on the 25th. Yesterday when we went to pick her up for church she was really sick and she didn´t feel like she was going to be able to go. But I told her that if she wants to get baptized she still needs to go. And she came! She exercised a lot of faith yesterday. Brillit, Colin, Jerico, and Melani are all progressing really well towards their baptism also.
Only Colin and Jerico were able to attend church this week because Brillit and Melani had to leave with their parents. But they are all reading the Book of Mormon every day and asking in prayer if it is true, so I´m happy about that. This week we found a 12 year old boy that has been attending church since March and isn´t baptized and somehow we didn´t notice him. His parents are inactive members and we still haven´t been able to talk to them about his baptism. He wants to get baptized. His name is Elder.
I´m really enjoying my time here in Callao. It´s crazy here but the people are so great. There are a lot of prepared people. I hope you guys have a great week!
Elder Jones
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