Elder Tyler Jones week 65

We had a pretty good week!

Elder Dalley left on Tuesday. So I was with the English elders that were coming in for a couple of days. They were whitewashing the English ward in Hollister so It was interesting to see them trying to figure that out while also trying to accommodate some of our Spanish appointments. They're two great elders so they're doing really well. The English ward is super on top of things here. They're super missionary minded and within an hour of us getting back the ward mission leader had already called them and was getting them situated and appointments aligned. It made me a little jealous but our little Spanish branch is super awesome still. I love the people in the branch.

Anyway, Elder Stewart got here on Thursday. He's from Idaho Falls and he's awesome! 

There was a kid from a semi-active family that got baptized this week. We stopped by the night before to see if they were all ready to go for the baptism. They weren't really so we ended up getting everything together for the baptism the night before and the morning of. But it was still great. There was a lot of support from the branch and it was a great baptism. We hadn't practiced enough with the dad enough for how to do the baptism so when he went to do it he ended up grabbing him around the neck and sort of just smacked him into the water really quick. The mom was a bit frightened by that but he went completely under water so it was alright. 

Everyone in the branch got to meet Elder Stewart this week and they're all super awesome. They're so loving and great members.

We got some news about Mannuel. He's on his way back here with his family. Mannuel has assisted to church a couple of times and had a baptsimal date before. But he had left to go get his family. They should be arriving sometime this week. We're hoping all goes well with his travels. Mannuel is super awesome, a couple weeks ago in elders quorum he bore his testimony about everything that we had been teaching him and he's been reading out of the Liahona magazine. When he comes he'll have to get married to his girlfriend but he feels ready to do so and is willing to get married. So that'll be awesome if we can see him sometime soon.

Other than that We've been working with a lot of members and their friends. We've found a few new people to teach through working with members and they seem like they'll be pretty awesome.

There's a man that was baptized recently named Armando. He owns a little Herbalife shop that sells smoothies. We've been trying to get him to come back to church. The problem is that he forgets about things. He's been doing awesome with missionary work This week he introduced us to three of his friends at his shop and we started teaching them. Armando is always so happy. He loves to laugh and joke. He was one of the first people Elder Stewart and I saw together. It probably wasn't the best person for Elder Stewart to start practicing his Spanish on since Armando has maybe 3 teeth total and can be a bit hard to understand. But it's been going well.

I hope you have a great week!