"she's not one of those baptisms just because she thinks we're cute." January 13, 2014

 

So yesterday we baptized Guadalupe!! She's super great. She's 16, but she's not one of those baptisms just because she thinks we're cute. She changed her baptism to before church so she could be confirmed that day and get her temple recommend to go to the temple on Wednesday. Then after church she went with us to work, also with some other members and she was just explaining how beautiful her baptism was and how she felt, and how she became to be converted. We knew her for three weeks. Super fast. I had the opportunity to baptize her.

 

Also I called all the people we've baptized and two of the families haven't missed a Sunday, and are preparing to get sealed in September and me and elder Ayala will get to go with them. Also, Wilfredo will get sealed to his wife in December and I'll get to go to that also!! So awesome. A bummer we cant baptize Leonitus cause his wife won't let him. He can't work so she makes all the money, so he doesn't want to like go against her will and if she leaves him and he has nothing.

To help us get more prepared to meet an Apostle, we watched a movie called, "On the Lords Errand"! It's so great, it's about President Monson's life. You guys should watch it! It's the best movie I've seen. He's such a great man!!

Also, this week we had a 5/5 hitchhike percentage!! 100%!! But this morning we got turned down once.... but we don't count that. One of the people that picked us up was a cop truck with its lights on! They stopped and picked us up even though they had someone in the back seat like really sick. But we flew back to our area in the back of that!

Anyways we had a good week! love you all.
Elder Tanner

 

[mother's note: Jordan assured us in our Skype conversation at Christmas, that hitchhiking was a "safe" and preferred mode of transportation.  The roads are so bad that most people have trucks and just have them pile in the back.  I don't know if that makes us feel better or not!]