Isidro didn't get baptized this week, but he's scheduled for next week. Our awesome ward mission leader, Hermano Acosta, stopped by Isidro's house unannounced one day and sat down and talked to him about things. First I heard he was caught drinking coffee, but then during ward council yesterday Hno Acosta said Isidro told him he had been sober for a few weeks now. Not sure....he's been coming to church every Sunday, though. He walks to the chapel. His leg is soooo much better now.
I'm so pumped for women's conference/general conference. April 1st is transfers, so we'll see if I stay for a 6th transfer or finish my mission in another area. I only have 3 transfers left....that's only 18 weeks. yikes. Tell me what you think about that please! Ha. Anyway, to be honest, I would like to get transferred. As much as I love Desert Bloom, I feel like there comes a time when you need a change to keep you motivated 100% of the time. Plus, I'm starting to get that feeling... the same one I got when I left Ensign.
Juliana is getting baptized on Saturday afternoon before the women's conference at 5. We reserved the font for 2pm. She's so ready! We're crossing our fingers that Noe (her son) will get baptized, too. It's an interesting situation with him because he will be turning 8 on Thursday...so he's not technically an investigator yet, but we talked to our district leader, and he says as long as Noe's heard all the lessons, he'll be able to get baptized with his mom 2 days after his b-day. So he'll be an investigator for 2 days. Haha. He hasn't told us yet if he's getting baptized with his mom, but we commited him to pray about it with his mom and he's been sitting in for every lesson and FINALLY likes us now. It's so funny teaching kids... because the ultimate goal is for them to think you're cool. Normally that wouldn't matter, but for little kids, it's the key to their conversion sometimes. Ha.
Speaking of kids, we started teaching 2 kids of a family who's been coming back into activity. Their names are Pablo and Kelvia Jr. (the mother's name is Kelvia as well.) They also have a younger son named Sebastian. They are SO cute and want to get baptized ASAP. We were thinking about combining their baptisms with Juliana and Noe, but their mom wants to wait 1 or 2 more weeks to make sure their putting everything into practice, which is understandable, and we need some time to teach everything anyway. Hah. These kids are smart as a whip and raise their hands before answering a quesion... they're always asking questions as well. Usually pretty good ones, too. The other day Pablo asked, 'are the constellations about Jesus Christ's God or like the Hercules gods?' Haha. Their sweet. Pablo is 9 and Keliva just turned 8. Kelvia will not be a convert baptism because her parents are members and she'll be 8 when she's baptized.
Yesterday was an adventurous Sunday... we rode our bikes after church. We had dinner with Aracely and Jorge, which was BOSS. We took all those pictures and they gave us all kinds of cool trinkets from Bolivia nad Ecuador. Jorge thought of dad and thinks he'll appreciate the pictures because he served his mission in Ecuador. They make the most delicious food.... and we ate outside with the Bolivian band named Kjarkas playing. Basically it's the same music that dad has... it's instrumental with those cool wooden flutes... I don't even know how to describe it. Hopefully you know what I mean. Haha. Anyway, after that we rode our bikes back towards our car and had to drive to our next appointment, which was pretty far away. Sister Abernathy totally biffered it on the way back. She fell off her bike and face planted onto the rocks...don't worry, she's fine. We were actually laughing about it. She lost her balance and grabbed onto the light pole to catch herself and fell. It looked like she pulled herself off the bike, though. It was quite a sight to behold.
Also, have you all heard of the 21 day promise??? *******************************************************************************************
ps...
speaking of our ward mission leader, Hno. Acosta, he's actually a recent convert of less than a year. When I first came to desert bloom they weren't even baptized yet. They got baptized like one of my first weeks there, back in September. The elders taught them, of course. He recently just got called as a WML and he's awesome. You can tell he really thinks about the people we're teaching and goes out of his way to get to know them...for example, showing up at Isidro's house randomly. He lives like 25 minutes away from him, too. The other day he even called us just to ask about how Isidro was when we taught him and how far through the lessons we got. Just trying to understand the situation more and get to know him. Being such a recent convert, too, he's very aware of how our investigators must feel coming to church for the first time and what type of things are probably going through their heads. He's very sensitive about that. On Sunday he personally went up to Juliana to congratulate her and get to know her better and told us to call him with all the program information so he can stay in the loop and make the programs for us. He's so awesome and since this is his first calling, he's really pumped to do as much as he can. He even told us to feel comfortable correcting him and giving him suggestions because it's all new for him. His wife is also a ward missionary and totally boss. Hna Acosta's been to lessons with us to see Juliana before and when she heard she wass getting baptized, she gave her the biggest, warmest hug. on top of all that, they're by far the most attractive couple in the branch... well, right up there with Kelvia and Daniel (parents of Pablo and Kelvia jr) the only sad thing is that Keliva and Daniel have marital problems. Such a pitty. they're both just so so pretty. :(
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