Aug 11 2014

Hey Guys!

Well it was a really good week, like better than usual! For starters Orlando got baptized and man was it an adventure! We finally got in with the parents after forever (I dont know if I mentioned this when it happened but they got separated a while ago) but we went over like an hour before Orlandos baptism to teach those 3 (Kenneth is in Guayaquil until later in the week). We showed them together forever which is a cheesy 80s church video that I always made fun of but it worked magic. We had a really spiritual lesson and Orlandos dad got pretty emotional and accepted baptism for the first time ever, they were both so happy for Orlando and so blown away by how ironic it is that he was the first in the family to get baptized, the gospel really can change people. So they came to the baptism and loved it, and they have decided to stay together and save their marriage.

The only problem was that the font didnt work, so we were frantically filling it up with buckets right before the baptism and it was freezing! My legs were hurting afterword but Orlando didnt even care. While we were getting dried off in the bathroom he told me he didnt even feel cold, he said that when he came out of the water he felt as if he had left his old life behind and was a different person, then he asked me ''Is that what the spirit feels like?'', such an easy question but it made me think a lot. Then after the baptism he bore his testimony and got pretty emotional too, it was a pretty powerful day. Tons of people came to church yesterday including Orlandos parents for the first time and I couldnt have been happier.

Life has been incredible lately, and it really is going by so fast. My companion is starting to make me realize just how fast it does go by, he was one of my zone leaders at the beginning of my mission which feels like it was practically yesterday, and now it looks like I am going to kill him. The mission is like a time machine or inception or something like that. It is just awesome. 

Ya that letter is gonna be a little late, I never have any time to right letters anymore but it is slowly getting done. A year ago today I was giving my farewell talk and saying goodbye to a billion people. It is wierd how fast the time has gone. And they say the next year goes even faster. Sounds like you had an awesome time in seattle and everyone else had fun partying while you werent there. Elder Grow speaks perfect spanish, I really hope I can speak like that when I am an old person. I bought a BoM in Kichwa a while back but it is nothing like spanish, my comp. actually knows quite a bit because he got to serve in the Otavalo for a while, I only know how to say ''gimme some skin!''. Hope you all have a good week!