Monday 16 Apr 2012

Dear Family, 16 Apr 2012

This week Doris was baptized. She’s an older woman but she really understands the gospel and she has such a beautiful testimony. She almost wasn’t baptized because the water stopped running in the chapel and we couldn’t fill the font. We had to resort to hauling heavy buckets of water from a water tank outside. The water was kind of green and nasty but she didn’t complain. It was really great because the man who baptized her is a recent convert of Hermana Claveria. His name is German. He and his wife Lilian were baptized in February and they are absolutely amazing!!! They have really strong testimonies of the restored gospel and since their baptism they have been really active in the church. On Sundays, if German isn’t in a church meeting, he calls the missionaries to go on visits with them and Liliana is always looking for opportunities to serve in the church. I really admire the two of them. So Doris was Germans first baptism and he was super excited. He’s the one on the left in the last photo. Also we should be having a baptism next month on 5 de Mayo. His name is Jose Santos. He is 11 years old and his mom is less active but we’re hoping that the whole process of taking the lessons will help her come back to church. Both he and his mom are really excited. This week we taught him how to pray and ask if Joseph Smith was a prophet. His prayer was really cute “Dear Dios, was Joseph Smith a prophet? Yes or No? in the name of jesus Christ amen” He is a hoot.

Love you all

Hermana Jackson