Elder Flaco Blanco: Jerry's Baptism and Other Stuff

First things first, a lot of y'all have been asking about Jerry. And I have good news! We were able to hold a double baptism on Saturday for "Josegerardo 'Jerry' Ramirez Plascencia" (age 10) and "Yahir Guzman Martinez" (age 14). And it was a total success! Jerry has been our investigator for about a month now, and he is incredible. His baptism went smoothly and his whole family attended! Including his Non-member father who has just invited us to start teaching him as well! So we are super excited to continue to work with Jerry and his dad, Pedro.

This last Sunday was pretty exciting. They asked me to give a talk again. And I decided to speak about the Gospel of Jesus Christ, I spoke about Faith, Repentance, Baptism, The Gift of the Holy Ghost, and Enduring to the End. I chose to speak about these basic topics because we had quite a lot of investigators come to church this week, including Pedro, who, although a very supportive father, has never been taught the things his Recent-Convert-Son has been taught about baptism. And seeing as his son was receiving the gift of the Holy Ghost that day, I thought he would benefit from a little bit of an explanation.

After Sacrament meeting, like 4 minutes before the next class started, a teacher asked us to teach a 15 minute lesson about the Priesthood with no prep time. (I like how everybody assumes that missionaries are always prepared to speak about any topic for any amount of time on command.) It was a little choppy, but we tried to speak more by the spirit than anything else, and I think it ended up alright. There's a scripture I love that talks about treasuring up the words in your heart continually... that way when people ask you to give talks the night before, or ask you to teach a lesson 4 minutes before, or you introduce gospel principles to strangers that seem interested, "the words will be given to you in the very moment what you should say."

Sunday was a testimony of that!

Our area is finally turning around for the better! We've seen so many miracles this week and we've officially resurrected a dead area. We're working with a few strong investigators and ironing out details of a few pending baptismal dates, but be sure to keep Pedro, Mirbel, and Marisol in your prayers! :)

Elder Wride and I click like a mouse. He's so fun, and we've seen a lot of cool miracles this transfer. We're starting week 5 of our 1st transfer together today.

Also, I get a new mission President this week! I'll meet him on my Year mark!!! :) (Thursday)

Super exciting, but I'll give you more update on him next week!

Love you all!