Super Diligent & Total Craziness!

Anyways so yeah here went my week

So we were super diligent this week and we did a TON of work, hopefully it starts paying dividends. On wednesday we went on splits, I went to Characato with Elder Ruggiero (Side note, his dad was or is the pro at thanksgiving point in UT idk if Dad knows him but yeah just thought Id throw that in there) and we had 2 service projects moving rocks and bricks so that was tiring haha. In Characato they are just starting with the church there since Jan. so they dont have very many members or anything yet. But they did baptize a girl who wants to be a missionary and now her mom is getting baptized this week and is there pensionist. Way cool. So we were there about to eat dinner and we found the pensionist´s son who always tries to avoid the missionaries when they are there but this time we didnt let him escape, sat him down and just read the intro to the BOM with him, really really neat experience and now the elders made a return visit and he has a baptismal date for the 30th. so cool

That same day my comp found a family that is already married (a first!) and they want to get baptized, came to church and everything this week (we kinda had to drag the husband away from a soccer game and we got there a little late but hey they loved it!).

On friday we did splits with the missionaries with whom we share the chapel and the day before they had a baptism all set to go but the investigator never showed up. She was supposed to get baptized over a month ago but every week something has come up. So we headed over there at about 1030 or so and found her there. Turns out that her son wouldnt let her leave that day so she didnt go. So I asked her if her son was there, and when we found out that he wasnt there, I told to get ready because we were gonna baptize her in an hour. So she was like ok lets do it. So we go running to the bishop to get the keys to fill the font, and he isnt there so we call the counselor, he says he doesnt have keys but he will be able to go to the baptism. Then we decide to go up to my bishop and grab the keys. Fortunately he was there so we grabbed the keys ran back down to the chapel and started filling the font. The lady shows up to be baptized right then and we realize that there we dont have the baptismal clothes. so we run back up to my room, grab the clothes (still damp from the last baptism) and head over to where my comp and his comp were teaching a lesson. They had just finished so we grab them and head down to the baptism. Finally we got everything all good, dunked the lady and she got confirmed on sunday. whew total craziness.

Sunday we had a tight activity that was stake wide. As Zone Leaders we always talk to the Stake President and we planned a stake wide activity that on sunday all the bishops and ward mission leaders would go out and contact and look for new people, like do splits with the missionaries in their ward. So we headed out with them, in total we had about 130 contacts, 2 lessons, a few new investigators, a bunch of potential new investigators and we got 5 references from them. Great activity that we did from about 3 until about 545. So yeah it was pretty exciting

Anyways thats all for this week,

Love you all

Elder Patrik Connole