Courtney's Week #60

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Gustavo Garces (10) 

Se bautizó 27 Mayo, 2012

 

So I have lots of things to say this week. First of all, yesterday we had a baptism!! It was pretty cool how we got to that point though. Gustavo is the son of an inactive member. His mom, Alicia, was baptized when she was 16, but kind of fell away from the church for about 20 years, but she still has nice memories of the church but also had a lot of Catholic ideas about the purpose of baptism. On Thursday we had our weekly planning, and as we were planning we decided that Gustavo needed to have more time before he was baptized so that his mom could understand a little bit better the importance of staying in the church after baptism. So we were going to change the date for July 1. So we decided to go talk to Alicia y Gustavo to change the date. But as we were teaching we asked a lot of questions, and the more we listened to her answers the more we felt like Gustavo needed to get baptized THIS WEEK! So on Friday we decided that we were going to have the baptism Sunday. It was super cool and I know that Gustavo was ready. It was also really cool because Gustavo´s older brother came to his baptism, we had never even met him before, but maybe in a few weeks we can baptize him too. 

 

 

So funny story, it rained for three days straight this week so I have had lots of opportunities to use my super awesome trench coat. So anyways yesterday we left the house to start working for the day. Well when we got to the house of an investigator I bent down to get something that was on the ground and I realized that my skirt was tucked into the 3 pairs of tights that I had on. It was just a good thing that I had my trench coat on so it wasn´t as noticeable, but it was pretty embarrassing. 

Hey, so I got the package that you guys sent, thank you so much! You guys are awesome. 

So now I have a really sad story. Last week we found a super super awesome family. I thought for sure that they were golden and that we would be baptizing them in just a few weeks, but they weren´t home for their appointment the next day and then just a few days afterwards we saw the Jehovah´s Witnesses leaving their house. And then again just yesterday. We passed by to visit them and they were full of excuses as to how busy they were. It was really heartbreaking because they were so awesome. But everyone has the chance to choose for themself. 

Well, I am out of time for today. I hope you guys enjoy the pictures!

 

A saint bernard that we found eating his owner´s water bill.

 

We went to a restaurant and on the menu there was an option that said 2 hamburgers, and it was a really cheap price, my companion decided to get it, but when they said two hamburgers they really meant two hamburger pattys without the actual burger. 

This rice dish is what we lived on for a little while when we didn´t have any money and we our lunch appointment fell through

 

 

Love you all!

Hermana Evans