This week has been pretty nuts.
We planned on having one baptism for sure. Monday night we had the interview with Arleanys, the Venezuelan girl, and she passed. Then on Tuesday, right before the district meeting, we get a call from Manuel a guy who was gonna get baptized the 2nd of march, and he tells us he wants to get baptized so we scramble and set the interview for Thursday.
At the District Meeting Elder Dominguez made "Arroz Chaufa" [Chinese/Peruvian Fried Rice] and the Hermanas [Sister Missionaries] bought a cake for my late birthday so that was pretty fun.
Thursday, we had the interview with Manuel and he passed so we scheduled to have 2 baptisms Saturday at 7. Anyways, we go to the baptism and it was total chaos. First of all, the person that was going to conduct the meeting didn't show up, so I had to conduct, and then the person who was gonna give one of the talks didn't show up, so I had to give a talk. Then the person that was gonna baptize Arleanys didn't show up so Elder Santos now had to baptize her, luckily he had brought white pants just in case. We didn't fill the font up enough, so there wasn't a ton of water in the font, because there are a bunch of places in the city without water right now and the water pressure was super low.
I conduct the meeting and give the talk, then we go to the baptism of Manuel, and he's kind of a bigger dude right, so it only takes 6 tries to get him under and everyone was like freaking out at me, and right when I opened the door to the font, I cut my finger open and was bleeding a lot. So the last try, Elder Santos gets in the water too and holds his legs down, and we finally do it. Then Elder Santos had to baptize Arleanys, but I realized that I wast sure if he even know the baptismal prayer in Spanish, but luckily he did it really well and it only took one try.
...The funny thing that probably wasn't even my most disorganized baptism, I have had. This morning we went and saw the "Pink House" which is like the White House, and some other cool sight-seeing stuff, then went into the Villa 31 and ate some super-good Peruvian food. A pretty solid week.
Elder Christensen
We planned on having one baptism for sure. Monday night we had the interview with Arleanys, the Venezuelan girl, and she passed. Then on Tuesday, right before the district meeting, we get a call from Manuel a guy who was gonna get baptized the 2nd of march, and he tells us he wants to get baptized so we scramble and set the interview for Thursday.
At the District Meeting Elder Dominguez made "Arroz Chaufa" [Chinese/Peruvian Fried Rice] and the Hermanas [Sister Missionaries] bought a cake for my late birthday so that was pretty fun.
Thursday, we had the interview with Manuel and he passed so we scheduled to have 2 baptisms Saturday at 7. Anyways, we go to the baptism and it was total chaos. First of all, the person that was going to conduct the meeting didn't show up, so I had to conduct, and then the person who was gonna give one of the talks didn't show up, so I had to give a talk. Then the person that was gonna baptize Arleanys didn't show up so Elder Santos now had to baptize her, luckily he had brought white pants just in case. We didn't fill the font up enough, so there wasn't a ton of water in the font, because there are a bunch of places in the city without water right now and the water pressure was super low.
I conduct the meeting and give the talk, then we go to the baptism of Manuel, and he's kind of a bigger dude right, so it only takes 6 tries to get him under and everyone was like freaking out at me, and right when I opened the door to the font, I cut my finger open and was bleeding a lot. So the last try, Elder Santos gets in the water too and holds his legs down, and we finally do it. Then Elder Santos had to baptize Arleanys, but I realized that I wast sure if he even know the baptismal prayer in Spanish, but luckily he did it really well and it only took one try.
...The funny thing that probably wasn't even my most disorganized baptism, I have had. This morning we went and saw the "Pink House" which is like the White House, and some other cool sight-seeing stuff, then went into the Villa 31 and ate some super-good Peruvian food. A pretty solid week.
Elder Christensen
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| Downtown BA, next to the Obelisk, with Elder Santos |
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| Baptism of Manuel and Arleanys |
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| Baptism of Manuel and Arleanys |
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| Downtown BA w/ the Elders from the Apartment |
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| Downtown BA w/ the Elders from the Apartment |
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| Downtown BA with Elder Santos |
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