We had a good week and finished with baptisms! Our whole zone met our goals of baptisms and we met with the commitment to be able to do the activity with the mission! The bad news is that there were about 4 zones in the mission that didn´t meet the goal, so we didn´t get to go to Cali. :( :( our whole zone was looking forward to it, but I guess it is good in a way because now we will have more time to work this week. If we would have went to Cali we would be traveling all day today and get back probably on Wednesday.
The big news of today is that this week is Pres. Prince´s last week in the mission. We got his last letter to us today and it was a little sad, but he gave us a lot of encouragement and told us that we have to work really hard with the new mission President. The new president is named Pres. Prícoli from Uruguay and he gets here on Friday. He is going in full swing and is going to visit the whole mission the next week. He is coming to Pasto the 4th of July I think so that will be fun to get to know him a little bit.
The baptisms we had last week were a mom and her son. Their names are Eztiven (steven in spanish haha) and María Edilma. They had a lot of problems before the baptism, but we were glad that they pushed through and committed to get baptized. They were baptized on Saturday night. We had some problems in the baptism too (we got there and the font wasn´t even filled) because some of the members that committed to do the favors for us didn´t do the favors, but the baptism turned out alright after starting about an hour late! I will send some pictures here in a sec. Eztiven has 9 years old and I baptized him and it was cool to baptize a boy and see how excited he was. He loves the church and talks constantly about how he wants to be a missionary like us one day! Such a cute kid!
We also have had a hard time getting people to come to church. We only had 3 investigators there on Sunday so we have to make some pretty big changes if we want to have baptisms in July. Pray for us to get things going again! Oh other interesting thing about the area: The stake pres. lives in our area. The other day we were at his house and he was telling us about his companions in the mission. He said he had a Elder Clarkson from Kanab, Utah! haha i thought it was funny that it is such a small world! He served in the mission North Bogota so maybe you will have to figure out who that is. Our stake Presidents name is Elder Marquinez.
Anyways though, thanks for all the pictures and updates you sent me. Looks like everyone had a great time at the Manti pageant and everything. Looks like Annie had a great birthday party too. In Colombia, yesterday was Father´s Day so I was thinking about dad a lot yesterday! Hope you guys have a great week and cheer hard for the USA in the world Cup!
Love,
Elder Armstrong
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