Elder Jackson Call: The Miracles Continue!

BAPTISM. I´ll talk about that a little later but yes, we had our first baptism this week!

Alright, so on Thursday we did another division with the zone leaders. This time I went to San Francisco and Elder Telford, just an amazing missionary, went to Choqui to help push things along with our investigators. San Franscico is insane! They have a gigantic market in all the streets selling literally everything you could want, just tons of people, tons of clothes. It was a lot different than Choqui but I really had a great time. My companion tought me how to be a more effective teacher and how to really love people. I loved the division, learned so much and had a lot of good food with the members. I finally had Morcaf, a drink kind of like coffee but that´s alright to drink and it tasted pretty good.

Another reason why Elder Telford was in Choqui was to do a baptismal interview with Yoselin. She passed with flying colors and was totally ready to be baptized. Yoselin knows a lot for her age and her parents are members, just not totally active. Saturday we held the baptism for her in Patalup and I have to say, it went absolutely perfectly. She wanted me to baptize her and wow, what an experience. I´ve never baptized anyone before in my life. As I changed in the bathroom, with ¨How Firm a Foundation¨ being sung in the backround I looked at myslef in the mirror and just thought, ¨Wow, this is real, this is literally an act of God.¨ It was really humbling and inspiring. We entered the water, performed the baptism, then changed and had a little snack with the members there. It was such an amazing spiritual experience, I can´t really descibe how I felt. What a blessing.

The other day Sixtos came to church with us again. He´s starting to make friends and likes coming to church. Elder Telford actually set a babtism date with him for this next Saturday! He can´t read and it´s hard for him to understand a lot of things but he is as ready as he´ll ever be. He can feel the Spirit and knows the Church is true. We´ll work a ton with him to retain him in the church but wow, we´re really starting to have success. Where is this coming from? Why is our zone, which hasn´t had a baptism in 4 months, which has only 8 missionaries, with 3 of them being new, on track to having 6 babtisms this month? I know it´s because Heavenly Father is blessing us and opening the hearts of the people. I love being here, I love the hard times and I love the good times. Serving a mission has been the best decission I´ve ever made and it´s changed who I am. I love you guys and wish you all the best! Adios!