Bendiciones

This week was a good week and full of blessings. This week we were able to find 3 new people to teach and set 4 baptismal dates! About 2-3 weeks ago we found somebody named Grace. But we soon lost contact because she gave birth. Friday night as we were waiting for the other missionaries to pick us up a guy rolled by on a BMX bike. We talked to him and he is super cool. He didn't know his address because he just moved here from Houston but he said he lived in the green house with a wheelchair ramp next to the park with the water tower and the kickball fields. The next day in the morning we decided to try and find his house. We biked all over the streets by the park and could not find a green house with a wheelchair ramp. We decided to pick a street and bike along it to the place we met him. We eventually gave up and decided to try Facebook. We found him on Facebook so now we have a way to contact him. Then we decided to head home for lunch as we were headed home we passed by Grace's house. She was outside mowing the lawn! We stopped and talked to her and she asked if we had a message to share with her. We shared the plan of salvation with her and the spirit was super strong in the lesson. At the end when I was testifying I started talking about how we need to do things in this life like reading, praying, going to church, and baptism to be able to live with our heavenly father and again. And the next thing I knew I was inviting her to be baptized! She replied, "I would like that, I would love to join!" We also had the opportunity this week to work with two part member families and set baptismal dates with them! Also this week a member called us as we were right about to go to bed and said, "I am just leaving the grocery store and coming to your apartment to drop of groceries for y'all". She bought us cereal, milk, poptarts and a ton of fruit!

We were biking past a guy walking on the sidewalk this week and decided to talk to him. We have a goal as a companionship to talk to everyone we see. This is how the conversation went. 

Us- "Hey! How's it going?"

Him- "How much gas mileage do those things get." *pointing at the bikes*

Me- "Um,... As.. Much as our legs can handle..?"

Him- "Wait! Those things don't give you gas mileage they give you taco mileage!"

*walks away*

Us- *laughing and confused*

Semana Mojada

It seems like it has rained off and on all week, and when it's not raining it's 85 and so humid it feels like 100 which is difficult for the bikes but definitely worth the hard work and effort. José chose this week to enter into the waters of baptism! We have been working with him for a few weeks and he has been 110% elect!! This baptism was by far the least stressful baptism my whole mission. There is an unwritten rule that something will go wrong at a baptism. This time it was music. We were not able to get a piano or anything into the room so we used a Bluetooth speaker connected to my phone. For the opening hymn it went great! But for the closing him it started beeping and saying "low power". So we definitely cut the last hymn short. 😂

Pictures from the baptism. And I promise the water was clean in the font. We even mopped the day before and got all the bugs out (only two roaches). The tap water here in Alice is apparently green... 

We went to a house yesterday and found this! It is an organ from 1802! This organ is older then the restored gospel. When you play it you have to use the left pedal at the bottom to pump air into the organ as you play. If you don't pump air in, no sound.

5 de Mayo

Lucky my companion's leg is doing much better this week so we have been able to get out and work for the past couple days.  He still can't ride a bike yet so we have been using the other missionaries car.  We have been doing a lot of finding this week and trying to talk to people.  And this includes a lot of door knocking, which means crazy people.  It seems like everyone here in Alice is catholic.  There are definitely more people that claim to be catholic here than there have been in my other areas.  

This weekend the city had a big festival for 5 de Mayo.  There was live music and tons of food trucks at the city square.  We decided Saturday night that we were going to go and try to talk to people there.  We took a packet of cards with us which contains 100 cards.  Within one hour we had given away all of the cards.  It was fun to go and talk to the people and see more about what the community does.  Unfortunately it was dark so I wasn't able to get any pictures.