January 30, 2017

I have so many mixed feelings this week, it is kind of unreal. I can almost feel that time is running out. I have a feeling that these next two weeks are going to be some of the fastest weeks of my life and they might be full of tears of gratitude and stress and who knows what else. 

This week I learned a lesson that we need to trust in God and that everything turns out the way that they need to. on Saturday we had a baptism, and we also had a zone conference. The zone conference started at 9 and ended at around 2. Then we went and ate and leaving there we had to go to the church to clean and fill up the baptismal font. First I will tell the story of what went wrong. We started the day without the baptismal clothing for the young woman who was going to be baptized, without keys to the church, without keys to the baptismal font, without knowing how to fill up the baptismal font, without the programs made, without things to clean the font, and without people. The elders dropped clothes off at the church while we were eating, and we ate with the sister who is in charge of cleaning the chapel, so we had keys. We figured out how to clean the font, we opened the doors that show the font and the son of Sister Talamantes climbed in from there to open the door from the inside. We figured out how to fill the fon with the water and we ended up being able to clean it, also. The bishop arrived and we used the church computer to print and make the programs. Everyone came and we started only 10 minutes late. That baptism was a real miracle. 

We don't have much planned for this week. It has been cold, but not how it was last year. The elder from Canada speaks English and a little bit of French, about the same that I talked before the mission. I like going to church because it is the only time that I have to truly reflect on my personal goals and enjoy other people teaching. Although sometimes we have to teach a few classes because the teachers do not come. Casas Grandes was formed by the Mormons who came here because they were practicing Polygamy. It is kind of old. There is one museum, but it is closed on Monday so we can't go and visit it.