week 105 There and back again

The mission flies by really fast, but they really are the best two years. It wasn´t the easiest thing I´ve done. I feel like I´ve completely changed these past two years, and I just want you all to know that I really appreciate the support and the love you´ve given me. I´ll see you all soon. 

So like this compu has a virus pretty sure and won´t let me put up pics and I don´t want to get all my stuff witha virus so I just won´t send anything today. 

LOVE YOU GUYS SEE YOU THURSDAY.

week 104: THE PENULTIMATE LETTER

Stop getting all baggy, jeez. THERE'S STILL TIME.

SO this Saturday was Olga's baptism and it went super well and there was a good turn out! She was super duper nervous for her interview and for the baptisms and everything. Even I was nervous, it was contagious, but everything went out well. I had a really special and baggy moment right after I exitted the baptismal font and enterred the men's bathroom. I walked into the bathroom and realized that that might be my last baptism in the mission, and I felt a really special feeling that God had really accepted my mission and was happy with me. I kind of just smiled, and then slipped on wet bathroom floor. Woops.

As most missionaries know, baptisms are a blessing, and always a hard thing. Because once you have your baptism, you have that problem of "uhh.. no one else is progressing." and you have to work harder. ALTHOUGH WE HAVE BEEN CONTACTING A BAGILLION PEOPLE. There aren't too many positive investigators right now. We have a young girl about 16, but we want to baptize her parents too so she doesn't inactivate.

That's actually one of the harder things in the mission. There is no rule saying that there has to be active family members or anything, but it's INCREDIBLY IMPORTANT TO THEIR CONVERSION. I share an area with sisters, who are kind of giving the ward a lot of work, because they have baptized several little kids without activating or baptizing the people around them or the ones who would take them to church. IT IS SO IMPORTANT TO NOT DO THAT.

But they're great, like all sister missionaries. Anyway. Here's to my last full week in the mish. Pic time.

Me with The Inestrozas, (whose baptism was a while ago, missing Alejandro, Javier, and William.) at the baptism of Olga, Olga and family and the ward, and then today in Ping Pong I didn't lose a single game and won both Tournaments we had and won around the world with the best record of only one strike.