Hey Everyone February 25, 2019
Today was intercambios. (transfers) I got a new companion Elder Connover from Denver, Colorado. This is my first gringo since Elder Baker. I will miss Elder Bolanos. He is a great guy and we got along great. So far I really like Elder Connover. He seems super awesome.
Today for my birthday we went out for ice cream and taco’s since it is P-Day. I can’t believe I am 19. It is super awesome.
On Wednesday Fabiola told us she couldn’t be baptized. Just on the Sunday before, she told us she would be baptized. We went to pick out the spot because there is no font in the area. I wasn’t feeling very certain about it but my companion was. We picked out a spot under a waterfall. Then we went to meet with her on Wednesday to reconfirm that she wanted to be baptized and she told us NO. I was like are you kidding me. I thought how sad. She was progressing and everything. We kind of just let them be. So the mom said she wanted to be baptized still. And we were like okay good, let's do it this Saturday. The reason is that she had been like, “Yes, No…” You know that song, “You’re, hot then your cold, your yes then you’re no…” The mom is that person. She is so wishy, washy. So we asked Fabis why she didn’t want to be baptized and she explained to us she is basically the equivalent to the young women’s president in her church. She is in charge of 28 girls. They told her that morning that if she joined the church, they would all stop going to their church. They would become inactive. She felt like if she joined the church, they would all die spiritually. We told her that isn’t fair. She said she didn’t care, she is in charge of them and she didn’t want to let that happen. We left them for two days. On Friday we went over to give her mom the baptismal interview because I was the district leader. She was so excited that she was going to be baptized the following day. We asked her if she had coffee or anything and it just went quiet. She drank a ¼ a cup of coffee, she kept saying it was hardly any. I said, you know the truth, and if you wanted to be baptized you wouldn’t be drinking coffee, you would obey ALL the commandments of God. I bore my testimony, this is where the truth is. This is where you find salvation. Baptism is the entrance to covenant path of God. I was talking to her about that. Fabis was in the room as well. I didn’t direct my conversation to Fabis at all. And at the very end I said’‘Fabis, you are the only one here in this room that can be baptized tomorrow. Why won’t you be baptized?” And she was like “I want to be baptized.” I went into the back room with her to interview her. We started with a prayer. I then asked her why she changed her mind. On Wednesday she said she wasn’t going to be baptized and why is she going to now? She said on Wednesday night after she said she wasn’t going to be baptized this anger and sadness came over her. She knew she didn’t feel right. She was fighting with her mom and sisters. The anger and sadness wasn’t going away. She said when she said she wanted to be baptized just barely she felt something special, I felt this joy and this peace come over her. She knew it was what she needed to do and what God wants her to do. It was a really awesome experience. It was so awesome to hear her testimony because normally district leaders don’t interview their own investigators. But because we live so far away from everyone else we got sent here. So she did get baptized and it really was an awesome experience. We are going to have her go to the temple on the 23rd of March.
We found some English speakers while we were tracking today and she is American. They have been here for 23 years. They teach English here. They are Jewish. We worry they will be antagonistic against us. The husband is Mexican and the wife is from Oregon. Hopefully, it will be okay.
I hope you all enjoy some cake today, especially since all I can get is stupid tres leche.
Love
Elder Snow
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