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| Jose's baptism |
Dear home,
So this past weekend we had a
baptism, the guys name is Jose Mendez. I don't think I shared the
story of how we found him so I'm going to share it.
I told you how I
met him at a a taco stand, but at that time I just got his
information. One evening, we didn't have any idea where to go and we were with a
member, so we decided to pray.
After we prayed, an address came to
mind and we went to it, I didn't remember the guys name or anything,
I just remember that there was someone I met there. So we went to
the address and it was Jose (which
I later remembered his name). We
had a lesson with him and he accepted a baptismal date on the first
visit!
This past week was probably the most stressful week ever. I told
you last week how we were helping him
find a house, but it got more
stressful this week, he had to leave by 2 days ago and we talked to just
about everyone and called any for rent sign we saw. After all the
house hunting we found one place that
was a small house in the back of
someone's property. Jose was SUPER close to moving outside of the
mission until we found this house. So we went to the house (a lady from
El Salvador who's niece is an inactive member, who gave us the
referral) and after some negotiating with her and a member that we
brought, she let us have it! BUT it doesn't end there. The day after, I
went on exchanges with the APs in
Boyle Heights and Elder Fellows
called me with some bad news. The lady backed out on the house... That
whole day I felt horrible and was praying that it would somehow work
out. I went back home from
exchanges and Elder Fellows had
just gotten home from talking with the house lady... And somehow, after
talking to her after a while with a member, they got it back and now
everything's ok.
I think I caught a glimpse of how it is to house hunt
for my dad. But I think if I could find a house in this man's budget in
Los Angeles, I can find one almost anywhere hahah. So long story
short, everything ended up working out and he got baptized. It was pretty
cool to hear him bear his testimony after he got baptized. He was
saying how when I was talking to him at the taco stand, he felt the spirit
and that he should have us over.
Another cool thing that happened
was when we taught Jose S.yesterday. We shared with him Alma
36, and the whole time he was smiling. It seemed to have answered
a lot of his questions and helped him realize how he can repent and
be clean. If you don't know what
that chapter consists of, read it!
It was cool to see Jose put himself in the shoes of Alma. They had both
done some pretty dumb stuff in the past. Only difference is that Alma
finished his repentance process,and Jose is now starting it.
Not a ton of eventful things
happened this week, still a good week Alma 36nonetheless, it was an awesome
week. Love you all!
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