Dear Family,
This week Jorgelina Morales, our 70 year-old investigator
got baptized!! This was my first where I was taught from start to finish.
Here´s a entry from my journal,
´´Today, was the day that Jorgelina Morales of 69 years of
age was baptized and brought under covenant by Sebastian Pardo (member). It
took 3 times, but she finally went all the way under the water before her toe
came up afterwards...¨Nueva Criatura¨ (New
Creature), as she said. She was happy, even if she took in a little
water the first time. She is already making friends in the Relief Society and
today Hna. DeLaCanal even gave her a book of Gospel pictures and she really
likes the pictures-- a whole lot more than us talking. She kind of stops
listening and just gets lost in the picture when you show it to her, but they
really help her understand, as she can´t read. After the baptism, we had an
asado (Argentine barbecue). Adriana, a friend of a member family, and our new
investigator came to the Baptismal Service!! She wants to get baptized--no like
I¨m serious she wants to get baptized! She basically--kind of
unofficially--put her own baptismal date. Anyways, we said that if she--and
Clara and Paula (other friends\investigators), who didn´t come--came that we
would go harvest pears with them at their work. They got the okay, and Adriana
came so we went and picked pears. Never have I seen so many or such ginormous
pears. We used collecting bins that you wear on the front, fill from the top and
empty out the bottom into really big crates. They were using 20 foot tripod
ladders, but we mostly were on the ground. Luckily, I´m above-average tall here
and I was able to reach\jump up and pluck ´em off without problem for the first
9 feet. The pictures we took explain well. While we were going back and forth ,
up and down, it became more taxing and I remember thinking, ¨I want an
education, because this hard.¨ I guess you can work hard and get good grades or
work hard, everyday, and pick lots of pears. Let´s just say that when it comes
to pear-picking I don´t plan on becoming a professional.´´
Hope you enjoy that and the attached photos.
Love,
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