Monday, August 21, 2017

Elder Tyler Jones week 58

We had a great week. Javier got baptized. Here's the little blurb that we sent to president for the baptismal report:

Javier was found by the sister missionaries while contacting.they
referred him to us and we began to teach. From the beginning he was
interested and enthusiastic about the gospel, but he took particular
interest in the Book of Mormon. We gave him a copy and he started to
read right away. He felt the spirit telling him that it was true and
he gained a powerful testimony of the restoration and committed to be
baptized right away. The ward members did a lot to fellowship Javier
and made him feel right at home. Despite his struggles with his broken
foot, he put in the effort to come to church every week and even go to
the temple with us. He had a great experience at his baptism with a
lot of support from the ward. He's now excited to keep progressing and
to go to the temple again to be baptized for his parents. This Sunday
we asked him how he feels now after being baptized. He told us that he
feels great and that he just wants to do whatever he can to serve god.

So yeah we had an awesome experience with Javier. The ward did an awesome job of showing up for his baptism and it was really awesome. The relief society is goi to bring him food while he's on unemployment and a member is getting him a white shirt and tie. So that's really awesome. During the service I had to get in the water with them since Hno. Clemente has a bad arm and Javier has the broken foot. The first time Hno. Clemente tried to do it on his own but he couldn't get him under all the way. So I helped him the second time and his hair was still above the water. So we ended up doing it three times. But Javier was laughing by the third time so it was good.

I'm getting transferred to a small town called hollister. It's a small Spanish branch in a little farming community. So I'm pretty excited for that. I'll be leaving tommorow.

Anyway, im having a great time!

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