Tuesday, June 30, 2009

Zaida's baptism & the rain in Chile


On friday, the rains came and came hard. They were expecting them to come on Thursday, but on Friday morning around 8:00, they started coming. By 10:15, we had received a call from our Zone Leaders saying that we were permitted to stay in the pension that day unless we had set appointments. The rains came down so hard and the streets started flooding. there were parts of town that had the streets as lakes. In all, it rained a little over 3 inches in a period of 14 hours.

Well, we had Zaida's baptism that evening and with us living half an hour from our sector we had to leave the pension anyway. We filled up the font and then went over the the bishop´s house until the baptism. We did end up having the baptism even though there were poor weather conditions. It was my first opportunity to get in the water to baptize. The font took a little longer to fill so the baptism got started late but all went smoothly after that. On Sunday, Zaida was confirmed a memer of the Church.
What a great week to end off the change. Wow...6 down already! (10 more) haha. Take care! Chao Elder Nelson
The bishops family...the Muñoz family. cool people. Juan, Marcela, Valeria (13), Mizti(10), Monzerat(5) (Monzi)