Well you will be happy to know that we pulled off a miracle and baptized 4 people this week! Thank you so much for your prayers and everything because I know without them these people wouldn´t have gotten baptized. Starting off the week Estella did not want to get baptized at all. She was saying that she had a lot of doubts and she still couldn´t believe in the Book of Mormon or Joseph Smith. We were super frustrated because she had already told us that she felt it was true and now she seemed to just be pulling out excuses. What´s worse is that the kids couldn´t get baptized either because the new rule of the area is that we can´t baptize kids without their parents. Her Daughter Darcy was about in tears when we told her that she couldn´t get baptized unless her mom got baptized too. We were super frustrated on Monday, but all we could do was say some prayers and try to get her excited again. Luckily we got some answers to our prayers. The Relief Society sisters called us Tuesday morning and asked if they could visit some investigators with us (which never happens) so we said yes and told them that we needed a lot of help with Estella. They went and visited her while we went to another appointment and we were just crossing our fingers that they could get her excited again. We called them later and to our surprise they said the visit went super well and that she was excited to get baptized again. We called her and sure enough it was true! The Relief Society gave us our miracle this week and from there we fellowshipped her even more and she got baptized with her family on Saturday! The other miracle is that her son Mario kept on telling us that he didn´t want to get baptized yet but we just kinda assumed the baptized and acted like he was joking around (even though he didn´t want to get baptized yet). We took him to get his baptismal interview and luckily that got him excited about the baptism. We definitely can´t take all the credit for these baptisms because we got a lot of help from a bunch of different people this week :)
We are also going to have another baptism this week. One of the other families that is super special for us is the Quiñones family. We baptized their son a month ago and now the mom and the dad are going to get married and the dad baptized! The wife, Amanda, was an inactive member and we are super excited that the family was reactived and now her husband Mauricio has accepted the gospel. They are going to get married this Friday and Saturday will be the baptism. To raise the money we sold some lunches 2 weeks ago so hopefully we can collect all the money from the missionaries tomorrow in our zone meeting.
Other than that not too much is going on. We have been playing soccer every monday and Wednesday and I am starting to get a little better. I usually get in 2 or 3 goals each time we play so I am pretty excited about that. We need to start finding some new people to teach but right now we are hoping we can baptize Daniel (the other son of Estella), Oscar (another investigator that has been to church 1 time) and Sebastian (A kid that has been to church 2 times but says he has trouble believing in God) So if you can keep them in your prayers that would be great!
Thanks so much for the updates. Looks like summer is about over so enjoy the last days of summer. Sounds like Addison is coming home soon right? You´ll have to tell her I said hi! Thanks for all the prayers and letters and have a great week. I will send some pictures of the baptism her in a second.
Love,
Elder Armstrong
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