THIS WEEK WAS AWESOME! Cristal is an awesome area and Sister Coon is an awesome companion and I am just loving it here. A few highlights from this week:
We had 3 baptisms! First, Kauã, 11 yrs old, whose mom never wanted to let him get baptized but we planned a special lesson for her this week and prayed a whole lot and she finally let him. He was so excited, every day during the week when he saw us he goes, "Sisterrrrrsssss, Saturday is my baptism!!!" Then on Sunday morning when we went to walk with him for church, he goes, "When do I get the gift?" We were like, uhh, what gift? "The Holy Ghost! Duhh!!" That kid cracks me up. The other two baptisms were Junior and Vitória, siblings, 15 and 13 yrs old. They're kind of crazy and hilarious, and were gonna get baptized in a few weeks but they already love the church and wanted to get baptized, so yeah, basically a great start to a new transfer.
Also, funny thing this week. Most of our investigators live in two different neighborhoods here, so Sunday morning it would make since to go to one, pick everyone up there, then go with them to the other neighborhood that's closer to the chapel and pick those people up and then we all go to church together, right? Ok, but there's kind of a big drug war going on between these two neighborhoods, so people living in one can't enter in the "territory" of the other or they run a high risk of getting shot. But a lot of the investigators from both are teens or kids, so they can't walk alone to church. So, we literally spent like 30 mins Saturday night trying to strategize how to get everyone to church. We finally came up with what we call our War Plan, because we felt like Captain Moroni or Helaman coming up with all their clever little battle plans. Let's just say the plan involved a lot of walking, getting up super early, and our ward mission leader basically acting as a babysitter for a little while, but it all worked out and we were able to bring a sizeable group of people to church. Totally worth it. The Lord makes things work when we do our part.
Well, that's about it. I LOVE CRISTAL! I LOVE MY MISSION! I love you all too.
Sister Coleman
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