So on tuesday we went to meet with the Correa family that we met on saturday and went to church last sunday. We taught them the Gospel of Christ and invited them to be baptized. All that were present in the lesson accepted (Mom, german, valentina, jeremias). They already had attendances from when they were listening to the elders before and so we invited them to be baptized on saturday. German (12) said yes before anybody and then the mom, mariela, said that before she didn´t feel like it was the time but that now she needs more guidance and to be closer to God and that she will be baptized as well. And the twins, Valentina and Jeremias committed as well. That evening we spent letting all of the members know and getting ready for the baptism. On wednesday we had set a lesson with them but then they cancelled. On Thursday we taught them the plan of salvation and like half of the commandments. They all have gone to lots of catholic sunday school so they understand things pretty well. Then on friday they cancelled again! And so we were freaking out! but we went by saturday morning and the dad was there with german and jeremias. He was totally supportive of them being baptized and sat in the lesson on the plan of salvation. They were really excited for their baptism that afternoon. So we went to lunch with the stake president, helped them wash their cars and then went to a lesson with reference from the sisters who we contacted and then came to church on sunday, and then we went back to correa to go together with them to the chapel to have their interviews and then the baptism. They were all their ready with clothes and all. The oldest brother Enso is 15 and we met him that day and mariela wanted him to get baptized and he was on the fence but we hadn´t taught him yet, so he decided to come to the baptism to see and would plan on getting baptized next saturday.
So we went to the church and they all had their interviews from a district leader here. And then everybody started to arrive! Marielas mom, sister, neice and nephew came. The sisters had a baptism as well of a 9 yr old kid, lots of his family came and several investigators. It was a really really good baptism! Elder Garcia baptized the mom, I baptized valentina, a recent convert of elder blackman baptized jeremias and a korean man in our ward baptized german. The messages were great as well. On sunday they came and were confirmed. All of the kids loved church and have made some great friends. Enso asked us for his own book of mormon and one of the talks was about the temple and he talked about the trip to chile in october and so all of the kids were telling mariela that they want to go! She said we´ll see. We´ll be teaching them more about the temple and watching between heaven and earth this week. After mariela was confirmed, she was giving everybody kisses and I put my hand out for the handshake but she went in for the customary little kiss and i didn´t want to embarrass her so it happened. I kissed a woman in front of the whole congregation. Then after the confirmations, bishop had them all stand up as a family and said that they are now part of our family and invited everybody to get to know them, visit them and have family nights with them. It was AWESOME!
So it´s been an absolutely amazing week. And what was amazing was that it wasn´t even anything we did, it was just a reference of old investigators that weren´t ready 2 years ago but now they have been really prepared. It was a miracle. Mariela gave a really sweet prayer in gospel principles. Probably the best prayer i´ve ever heard.
I love the mission!!!
Love,
Elder Fullmer
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