ENTER THE WATER OF BAPTISM

"May we see the light of Christ in others constantly and help them to see it in themselves."   -Elder Bragg

 What a fun week.  It's freezing cold so there's an inch of frost on everything. To start off we went to the giving machines on Wednesday, and had so much fun chilling there for 3 hours. It was in downtown KC that was fun to go and see everything. The giving machines are so cool and we had quite a bit of people come and drop like 5 donations which was awesome. The weirdest thing happens at the giving machines, the missionaries can't wear their tags and we have to go by our first name.  The most exciting thing happened on Saturday, we had a baptism Esteban was baptized this last Saturday and I got the opportunity to baptize him.  It was such an amazing experience and I could see the light inside of him the exact moment he came out of the water. He was so ready and excited. It took almost 8 months to actually get him baptized and keep commitments so it was so amazing to see him finally enter the water of baptism. The baptism was in spanish so that was really fun haha it went well and I didn't have to say it twice which was nice. Spanish is still kicking my butt... but I know I'll get there one of these days or years. We had transfer texts this week on Saturday and my companion and I are staying together for another transfer which is awesome.  Only sad thing that happened on transfers was Marble leaving.  He's one of the missionaries in my house and we were super close so that's going to be sad. Yesterday was crazy we had 4 hours of church and it was the primary program in the spanish ward. Then we found 2 people right before going home after knocking doors 2 lessons fell through so we started walking around and this spanish family was just walking outside taking videos of their Christmas lights and they invited us in and they want to be taught all 5 lessons!! So that's really really exciting as well. 

pictures: Esteban's baptism, light the world, Hector & his family