BROUGHT ME BACK

"If we have faith in Jesus Christ, the hardest, as well as the easiest times in life, can be a blessing."       President. Henry B. Eyring 

 I was really excited for this week and it was super good, but we had some really rough things happen that were very unexpected..  started with Carlos, he was on Date for the 29th and we went over to do the commandments, and before we started he started telling us that he's starting to have doubts and that he needs more time until baptism... but he said that he still wants us to keep coming over and continuing the lessons, but it was pretty tough to take him off date, he will get there soon. The other disappointing thing that happened was Diego's daughter got really sick the day of the temple. So Diego couldn't go, and I was a little frustrated but it was alright because he said he really wants to go,  Hector told me that he will get him there the day the temple re-opens! (because they're closing it for 2 months or more...) but even with Diego not going, the temple was amazing and w got to do baptisms for the dead.  It was amazing to do them again, and in spanish... that was a little hard but I got it down after the 15th time hahaha. It was so awesome because I got to do baptisms with 2 kids from the branch that have never done it before. They don't speak any English so explaining it to them was very difficult, but it was awesome!! One of them is named Logan and the other is Ethan! They both loved it so much, and it brought me back to when I did baptisms for the dead for the first time. I got to see one of our new converts Victor in the temple. Victor is taught by the sisters, but him& I are super tight because I've been there for forever, and I'm the only missionary left that saw him get baptized.  The last thing I want to talk about is Soccer night of course, if any of you are wondering if soccer night works it does.  We had 30 people show up this week! We posted so many flyers and adds on Facebook, and it was the craziest and coolest thing ever.  It's going to be very sad leaving this area after starting all these fun activities.  All the latinos call me Haaland from the Norway soccer team.  Kinda a crazy eventful week with lots of ups and downs.