Hello
Family and Loved Ones!
Well
this was quite the week! We ended up having 2 baptisms this Saturday and
it was incredible! I got the opportunity to baptize the Brother, Jimrex
and then my companion got to baptize the other 2 Sisters. They all had
great amazing testimonies afterwards and my companion and I were very grateful
for the opportunity to be a part of their first step towards coming unto Christ
and working on their progression towards eternal salvation! :)
So this week,
our town had a fiesta, so when it was night we had trouble find appointments
because EVERYONE, and I mean everyone was at the Carnival haha, but at least
they were having fun! So I don't know if I told you guys or not, but
every morning I go jogging at the church, well I do liners. And so one
morning I just finished doing my liners and we were walking back to our apartment.
As we were doing so, there was a parade going on. Haha, honestly all of
the people who were participating in the parade got distracted by me.
Haha there were actually marching bands who stopped playing their instruments
to look at me hahahaha. It made me feel like I was the parade!
Overall, there was a lot of parties and fun activities going on in our town,
and I wasn't complaining because there were a lot of food stands!!!
Anyways, work continues to progress over here in Angadanan. Right now we
are focusing on getting these other investigators to church, because they
really do have strong testimonies, but we just haven't quite gotten them to
come to church yet! But Elder Panton and I will continue searching for
ways to get them to want to come to church.
One thing I have started to
do while I am out working, is I look for anyone who isn't smiling and I make it
my goal to make them smile. Everytime I get someone to smile at me, I
just feel that more satisfied with my purpose and the service that I can give
as a missionary. Literally, all I look for now when I work is smiles from
everyone I pass. And let me tell you, this is no easy task for me.
I have never been that good of a smiler, mom can testify to that! When I
first started smiling at people, it was seriously awkward for me. Like I
just feel like a look goofy when I just smile, and the worst is when the people
don't smile back, but I just keep pushing myself to smile at strangers because
I want those smiles! In a way, I feel like this will be really valuable
to me in the future, so I just keep on pushing myself to smile at someone, even
knowing that most likely my face has turned red from embarrassment, more so
when they don't smile back! But I feel like the more I smile, the easier
it becomes so I will continue to do it until I no longer feel
uncomfortable!
On Sunday, we went to one of our areas that requires
crossing a broken bridge to get to it. Well yesterday, there was a lot of debris along the side of the bridge floating in the water, and I didn't want
to pay to be pulled across the broken bridge on a boat, so I walked on the
floaties! It was so awesome, and soo many people thought that I was going
to just fall in and the floating debris would sink, but because there was so much
and my faith was sufficient I did it, twice!!! I got a lot of smiles and
laughs for that! Haha I figured I need to make my last 3 months as
exciting as possible so why not?
Anyways, I continue to do really well
here and the work is going great! I couldn't ask for anything more in my
mission! :) I love you all and here are some pictures!
Love,
Elder
Zach Warren
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