Tuesday: We decided to surprise Ballesteros district by going to their district meeting. Sister Libre (a new missionary still being trained) was very surprised and nervous because she was the one training, and didn't realize the zone leaders were actually going to come. It was a good district meeting and Sister Libre did awesome.
Wednesday: We had exchanges with the Ballesteros district, and this time I went with Elder Reamon. The exchange went well, Elder Reamon is really good at just talking with people and is very motivated to do all aspects of the work, including finding, which can be grueling sometimes. So I appreciate that about him.
Thursday we had another exchange, back to back, with the Abulog elders. I went with Elder Pu'efua, a Samoan elder who is from Samoa but moved to Utah when he was young. We actually had a fun finding activity where we set up a juice stand in front of the school and gave out juice to the students.
At first everyone passed by us and it was kinda awkward, but a lot of the members came and helped us out, so we gave all of our juice out and now have some potential investigators for the future! The rest of the day was successful too.
On Saturday we are happy to report that we had a successful baptism! Sister Donnafe and Sister Grace were happily baptized around 2pm. A couple of hours earlier we were doing our best to prepare due to a flood in the girls' bathroom. The water was barely a little higher than my knees. They had a good experience and the Spirit was very strong.
When Sunday rolled around they were confirmed as full time members of the church and we couldn't be happier. What makes things better, is we have another baptism coming up this Saturday, for our investigator Angela Ancheta! We're super excited for her, and this last Sunday we were even more excited due to a lot of our new investigators coming to church!
There were a few that we taught this week that already wanted to come to church, and sure enough that Sunday there they were. One has already told us she wants to become a member of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints, and several others have very high potential.
It's a lot of work to take care of the 10 investigators we had at church, but we're happy with how many opportunities we have to help people come unto Christ.
So in conclusion: Life is going great! Although very busy, it's very enjoyable. Every week we go to a different area for interviews for people wanting to be baptized, lots of meetings, going on splits several times a week with the members and teaching awesome people. I love it all and I know I'm very blessed to be here in Allacapan.
We got another exciting week coming up with Zone conference, traveling for more interviews, more awesome work and the baptism this Saturday.
The work really is hastening here and I'm blessed to be apart of it! I know that this work is true and I know I am here because of a 14 year old boy who wanted to know the truth. Now I'm here helping several other people his age discover the truth too.
That's all I got for this week! Like always, Love you all!
Elder Espiritu
**you can email Elder Espiritu at joseph.espiritu@myldsmail.net
Exchanges with the Ballesteros Elders
(Elder Madsen and Elder Reamon)
Exchanges with the Abulog Elders
(Elder Nungay and Elder Pu'efua)
Working with Denz and CjoyImage
Donnafe
Nanay Grace
Allacapan branch baptism
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