This was a good week in Colombia. The highlight of this week was our baptism. His name is Cristian and he was baptized this last Saturday. We had barely taught him before this week, but he already had a ton of friends in the church and even went to a church youth convention here with them. When we taught him on Saturday he wasn`t so sure if he would be ready to get baptized, but we asked him if he was willing to work hard to meet his goal of baptism this Saturday, and he said yes. We taught him all of the lessons and luckily he didn`t have problems with the word of wisdom or anything! The thing that was most special for him though, was the baptism interview. Something I have learned in the mission is that people can change their minds and really feel the spirit in the baptismal interview. It is an opportunity for the missionary that is interviewing them to just resolve all of their doubts and ask direct questions. Cristian was a little shaky all week, but after his interview it really solidified the baptism for him and he could recognize that he had received an answer from God that he should get baptized. We had the baptism on Saturday and everything went pretty great. I don`t know if I mentioned that my companion Elder Lopez plays the violin but he does and we played together the piano (electric keyboard) and the violin in the baptism. He taught himself to play the violin. He holds the bow about at the midpoint and says it is to play faster and more accurate! I think the people liked that we could play together.
The other thing that was cool is that we helped out for the primary program here, which they had this past sunday. We rehearsed with the kids a couple of times this week (me on piano and my companion on violin) and had the program on sunday. It turned out good. Luckily, no one knows music here so they were able to overlook some mistakes. The coolest part was this little girl that recited all 13 articles of faith in Spanish! Also there were some cool talks by all the little kids. I was really impressed by their testimonies. Of course, I was super jealous the whole time of how good they good speak spanish.. ha.
Today we had our soccer tounament with the mission. Going into the tournament I thought we had one of the worst teams (with 4 americans that don`t know how to play soccer!) but, we actually went into the tournament and surprised everyone! Only about half of the mission actually came to the tournament (there are some places pretty far so only the missionaries within 4 hours of Cali came) but it was nice to meet up with some of my buddies of the mission! We played all morning and won every game. We made it to the championship game and everyone was super excited. We played way hard but it turned out that no one scored a goal in the whole 20 minute game. If there is no goal scored you take turns kicking goal kicks just one person at a time. We were so so even and I kicked a goal in to save us from losing one time (I was super nervous and surpised everyone!). Unfortunately, we ended up losing in the end :( . It was so cool to have a tournament with the whole mission though, and we were so close to winning the best soccer team in the whole mission!
Well there is the highlight of this week. Things are going good here as you can see! Oh I got bit by a dog this week too haha but it is because I like to bug the animals until they get mad. It was just a little bite on the hand though and I am fine! I will talk to everyone next week. Mom happy birthday this week too!
Love,
Elder Armstrong
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