Pictures from the baptism and "whomping willow" (Harry Potter). Pictures from baptism of the whole group, Martina and Iveta her friend, Marcos (I'm thinking that's her husband) and Kolomon his friend along with Martina and Elder Armstrong and Elder Pace.
This week was full of holidays and baptisms. Really just one baptism, but it was one of the coolest experiences of my life. The holidays are great, but trying to meet with people and talk to them about the gospel is not what they are on about. No one had time for us, but we had a good week over all. We celebrated the new year with tacos and cookies. It was a good time.
As I said, we had a baptism. It was for Martina who has really become a great friend of ours. So many miracles had to happen for her baptism to go through. As of the day before, we were not going to be able to do it, but our Zone Leaders (Elder Klingler and Elder Boswell) helped us out. They did everything they could to make sure Martina could have her special day. A zone leader is kind of a weird mission word if you aren't familiar with mission terminology. Each mission is divided into zones which is then divided into districts and then into areas. The mission president is in charge with two assistants and then they are over the zone leaders who are responsible for their respective zones. Each district has a leader who reports to he leaders of the zone they are in and each companionship
is part of a district. My district leader is Elder Poggeman . Now that we have gone over that, back to the baptism. The day of we got there early and were in time to watch the baptism for another ward. They had the font filled already but suggested we put some more water in so someone turned on the water. Everyone started showing up, and they forgot to turn it off again. When we came out later, we saw water all over the hallway. The ward was right upset with us. As well, the police showed up to bring some guy back to the mental health ward. So that happened. The actual service was good, but we had pulled the plug on the font to let the overflowing settle. When we put it back, it wasn't fully in and so we had less water than normal for the baptism. I performed it and it only came up a little above my knees. I had to lower her down so far so that she could go fully under the water. As
well, Dezider just didn't show up for the talk that he was going to give at the service so I gave an impromptu talk. Martina, despite all this, loved the night. She was so grateful for the chance to be
cleansed from sin. She felt the Spirit and so did we so strongly. She has changed her life around like crazy. We are so excited for her to keep moving forward as she follows Christ.
Love you all,
Elder Pace
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