Nov 5, 2012

Hi!!

Sounds like everyone had a good week, and Halloween! Here Halloween is nothing...I asked the day before...”do you guys celebrate Halloween” and every one said YES, but I literally saw one kid with a costume the whole day!! Sad...Halloween is like the best holiday ever, besides Christmas and your birthday! I

 heard that in 8 months they are expecting twice as many missionaries in the field, and half of them will be Hermanas. How awesome! It makes me think the second coming is extremely soon. 

Melissa was baptized Saturday and confirmed yesterday! She’s awesome. We planned to fill up the font at a certain hour, and as a missionary nothing ever goes as planned.  So when we were actually on schedule (actually early).  We were shocked. So instead of taking the bus to the church, to save money because were poor, here on the mission, and we decided to walk.... Well it was a little further then we expected and we ended up getting there late because we walked. Ha-ha so we were a little stressed already. Then we go to start filling the font up and …SURPRISE its already full. MIRACLE!!!?? For a second we thought so...but then realized it was COLD, DIRTY, and from the baptism of ALEXANDRA like 2 weeks ago.

So we tried to figure out how to drain it and couldn’t so we called the elders and they helped us. After 45 minutes of draining we started to fill it up, and it turned out fine. We luckily started the baptism late (because Argentina standard time is worse the Mormon standard time there in the states). But in the end it turned out awesome. When we went to congratulate Melissa right after in the bathroom she said “seriously, there is a party in heaven right now for me” it was cute. (The people from Spain say the letter S with a lisp, so it’s like a cute 22 year old with a lisp saying it! Ha-ha it was cute. )

My companion made a chocolate cake for the baptism and was sooo excited about this cake! So she cut it and put it nicely in a Tupperware and brought it with us all day so we wouldn’t have to go back to the house to get it before the baptism. Well, she is the same as me, and together we forget everything so of course we left it at the house of another investigator. By the time we realized it (about 3 hours after we left it there) we ran back (across town) to get it and....no one was there. So we went and did the whole baptismal font thing and while it was filling up we ran to get the cake. Luckily this time they were there but guess what.... with guilty looks on their faces they handed us the container.... HALF FULL. They ate HALF THE CAKE hahaha. What the?? My companion was a little mad for a minute or two until she realized that I couldn’t stop laughing and then she started too. We told the members and they were all cracking up and went and bought more cake from the store so there was enough!

It was one of my favorite baptisms of my mission. The spirit was super strong! Well that’s about all. I love you all xoxoxo

Love,

Hermana Marchant