March 23 2015

We had quite the adventure this weekend.  I am very pleased to tell you that we did have a baptism on Saturday. A man named Joaquin. I have been working with him since November and he is awesome. He is married to a member but she has been inactive for 10 years or so. She got baptized when she was 11 with her older sister. Her sister then stopped going and Karin didn´t want to be alone so she stopped going too. She has returned  and has found a couple of good friends. The whole ward has accepted them with open arms and we are so happy. It was quite a day on Saturday. Friday, Elder Caballero came to do an interview with Joaquin. We didn´t find him all day. Saturday, we went to his house at about 3 and he said he wanted to be baptized and that everything was a whole mess of communication. We went inside his house to pray and see what the Lord wanted. We received the response to go for it. We called the Zone Leaders, taught the last 7 principles, ran home for his papers, drove to La Pampa, waited and the Zone Leaders didn´t show up at 5 like they said. We were worried. We prayed and at 5:30 or so they came.  We had the interview but the pila overflowed!!!!!  The Zone Leaders had a baptism too and the water had run a little low. We flipped it on and forgot. It overflowed so much!!!!!!  We were running around. Oh and there was an activity in la estaca Sabado too. We were running around, panicking. Finally we got everything under control, the interview finished, we drove back to the area and told him to get ready. We hadn’t planned on a baptism so we hadn´t filled the pila. We had asked a member to do it. We said so many prayers this weekend.  We ran to our house and got white clothes. Came to the church and waited again. Finally they showed up and it was 8pm.  We had him change, I changed too. We started the baptism with a few members and his family. We were so happy to just be there in that moment but we were worried about the time. Me and Joaquin entered the water. In that moment I felt so much peace enter my heart. I said the words and baptized him. He came up smiling. He then hugged me and said thank you Hermano Jones. I felt a Spirit like never before in my mission enter my heart. We went to the bathroom and he was just so giddy. He was literally hoping around giggling. I was so happy. He said that he felt so much peace inside. We finished the baptism, dropped him off with his wife and 5 kids. Then we literally ran home and made it just in time. I was sweating, tired and happy. I know that the Lord wanted Joaquin to get baptized now rather than in 3 weeks.