Hey howdy hey,
Seems like you guys had a super legit week!!!! Baptisms, temple, DANCE RECITALL .... very sweet. Mom i am so proud of your example that you set for all the people that know you.You really make a big difference in a lot of peoples lives.
So this week we also had some baptisms!!!! Sweet right. We baptized two 9 year old girls navile gonzalez and brenda lopez. We have really helped there families reacivate and they are progressing really well. The girls are really cool haha. They are just two little giggly girls. I got to confirm Brenda a member on sunday! it went really well. I feel like i followed the spirit really well when i continued the blessing. It was a really funny. SO sat. morning we show up to the church to finish our cake cuz we ran out of gas at the house, right. We go into the kitchen which is actually where you watch the baptisms. Well the oven part didnt work and the cake looked almost done so we put it on the stove to heat it up a bit and finish it off. After we started filling the font up more and actually had to do that bucket at a time, right, which took forever bye the way. Well while this was going on we kindof forgot about the cake and well..... WHOOPS. I walk into the hall way and smoke is coming out of the doorway of the kitchen.We go in and the cake was a volcano hjaha. fat crack down the middle with smoke blowing out the top. Then the alarm went off haha the cake was done. It smelt so bad. The baptism was going to start in 30 min and we were freaking out trying to figure everything out. We finally got the smell out but forgot about the buckets and the bathrooms were a little flooded haha nothing too big. It was loco as heck but it all worked out fine and nobody noticed. ... Except for the whole bishopric who showed up earlier cuz they thought someone broke into the church haha.
Anyways kennedy is a blast. We have been working so hard. Days just pass bye way too fast. I am enjoying it alot. I have been trying to contact 75 people everyweek like president asked us to and i have actually been able to do it. I am already seeing a bunch of stuff happen so i am getting really stoked. I am expecting that my area will explode any day now i just hope it happens soon. So we found a less active family this week with three kids who need to be baptized. We wouldnt have found them if we werent trying to contact during the day so it was sweet. We are gunna try really hard to help them out. We also found another guy who hasnt been to church forever ever since he moved to kennedy. We taught hima lesson and he loved it and wants to get back to church. His wife isnt a member so hopefully we have something there! So when we contact we have the mentality that our 75th contact will be an investigator of gold. If we do this president promised us that we will find that investigator before 75. Well i believe i had a lot of contacts of gold but 74 really stuck out to me. She really likes the church and has family who are members. Her husband and her 7 year old son and her go to church every once and a while with her aunt and she told us her kid loves being there and they do too. It was so sweet they have so much potential. The hard thing is, is that they are only home late at night. We have usually been in that area only during the day but ended up there at night this last sat. I figured we werent going to clap her house cuz they are never home but i really felt like we should do it. I am very excited to work with this family i really believe they are going to get baptized. It is just a matter of getting them to church and to keep all their commitments. Cant wait.
We also found brian (braiyan ) he is the boy friend (novio) of a member and said he would listen to us! He doesnt really have a religious background though and that is really weird for paraguay cuz almost everybody believes in God. Like he knows a little about Jesus Christ but not much. So the book of mormon will really help him out as he reads it. It will be really fun though. We got to teach him what baptism is. I really think he will be baptized too. We have a bunch of other people who we are trying to visit so i hope it all works out. If so ... BOOM!!!! yup .
I love you guys alot. I am happy you are all happy. I am super stoked for josh he is going to love it. Oh today i met Elder wing, a buddy of jordans from byu. It was so fun to talk about jordan and stuff. We had some good laughs. Everybody loves jordan who knows him haha so it was really sweet especially being able to brag about him cuz he hasnt really heard about jordans mission yet.
Anyways. The work is starting to take off. We are all happy. The church is true and will always be true. I want to bear a brief testimony on the bible. That i know the Bible is true. By reading the bible we come to know our savior more and get to experience His life and minisrty from behing the sceens you could say haha. I also know that by reading the Book of Mormon, one can better understand the Bible and all of its teachings. I love sharing from the bible and helping people understand what it teaches us.
Mom things i really really need.
Ruffles cheesy kind, laffy taffies, starbursts, honey combs if it is possible or coco pebbles or both.peanut butter mnms!!!! and maybe a dog whistle hahaha. that would be interesting. Oh and a new shaver would be nice. Does that old electric shaver still work? if so send it my way if not just a nice normal one haha.
I love you a bunch untill next week. PEACE,
Elder Carpintero
