My First Baptism. Juan Cerda - 13 years old.
My new friend - Nacho
and....round #2 for smooth legs! All 4 elders in our pension decided to go for the smooth legs.Hello Everyone!
Things are going good for me here down in Ovalle, Chile. It is really getting hot down here! This has been a pretty event-filled week. The highlight of it was definatly Friday night. I had my first baptism. His name is Juan Cerda. He is a 13 yr. Old boy. The other youth in the branch were a big part of him coming into the church. They are such a support for him. Well kind of a funny thing happened that evening during the service. I was conducting the music and the closing hymn was True To The Faith...anyways, on the part where it switches from the verse to the chorus by saying no! (or yes!) I didnt see the rest there and infront of everyone sung out NO! Haha... everyone started laughing and the young women were rolling laughing... Pretty embarassing if you ask me but its all good. So Juan was confirmed yesterday in Sacrament Meeting. Elder Schneider baptized and confirmed him. I was a witness for the baptism and then stood in with the Branch President for the confirmation. We were also asked yesterday to stand in with the Branch President for a baby blessing. That was cool. So our chapel that is in our sector is being remodeled as of earlier this week so we have to go to the chapel in the sector right next to us. At first, it was going to be at 5 in the afternoon until 8 . It was changed Saturday night to only 12 noon which is better I guess but we wont be eating lunch until like 4 now. It was kinda of funny telling people when doing contacting that our church would be at five in the afternoon and seeing their faces...haha.
I am out of time now but i will have a good story for next week. Talk to you all later! Love you all! Thanks for everything!
Things are going good for me here down in Ovalle, Chile. It is really getting hot down here! This has been a pretty event-filled week. The highlight of it was definatly Friday night. I had my first baptism. His name is Juan Cerda. He is a 13 yr. Old boy. The other youth in the branch were a big part of him coming into the church. They are such a support for him. Well kind of a funny thing happened that evening during the service. I was conducting the music and the closing hymn was True To The Faith...anyways, on the part where it switches from the verse to the chorus by saying no! (or yes!) I didnt see the rest there and infront of everyone sung out NO! Haha... everyone started laughing and the young women were rolling laughing... Pretty embarassing if you ask me but its all good. So Juan was confirmed yesterday in Sacrament Meeting. Elder Schneider baptized and confirmed him. I was a witness for the baptism and then stood in with the Branch President for the confirmation. We were also asked yesterday to stand in with the Branch President for a baby blessing. That was cool. So our chapel that is in our sector is being remodeled as of earlier this week so we have to go to the chapel in the sector right next to us. At first, it was going to be at 5 in the afternoon until 8 . It was changed Saturday night to only 12 noon which is better I guess but we wont be eating lunch until like 4 now. It was kinda of funny telling people when doing contacting that our church would be at five in the afternoon and seeing their faces...haha.
I am out of time now but i will have a good story for next week. Talk to you all later! Love you all! Thanks for everything!
