October 26, 2009 - Baptize David

Ok, so I totally just wrote alot and then some crap happened, and here I am starting over. This is going to be REALLY short I assume, I'm already two hours on the computer. I feel horrible and I feel bad for having sent you a few things, I used Gmail to send you something special. We´re not supposed to use other services. I spent alot of time on that thing two. The other mail you´re going to receive needs to be seen with my laptop. Your computer doesn´t have all the programs you need to check it out. If you have problems have Daniel come over, ok??
Well, I do know those two pollo places you were talking about, one´s grilled chicken the other is rostiserie. They´re pretty good, we walk by there every day. Lol. There´s a few other fun places, I have a hankering for more chinese food, but nobody here really likes it. They like it...but they don´t REALLY like it, it´s not something they WANT to go do very much. Oh well, Elder Danielson does, we´ll have to organize that one. Just him and I, the others can go get something. Tomorrow morning I just remembered we´re going to go meet a friend of ours in a litle garden place. We met him last Tuesday contacting and he came running back at us. He passed us we just said hi, and then all of a sudden ¨HEY!¨ I turn around and he comes running at us. ¨Hey are you the mormons?¨ ... I reply ¨Why, yes we are!¨ = D
He wanted to come to church, but we usually don´t trust people who say they´re going to go to church in the street. It´s never EVER happened til now. He came! We can´t even get our own investigators to go! This guy ... we were walking Sunday morning to the church and we passed him, I said good morning, and then I recognized his hat. I turned around, HEY! Lol We started talking and he said he was on his way to the church. The funniest part about all of that is that it hit daylight savings time this last week...We got up an hour early. And got to church an hour early...
David was baptized! That went down well. He was just... too easy it seemed. It was just... yeah I believe, yeah I read the Book of Mormon, the law of chastity is this this this, word of wisdom is this this this. Just ... just like that. Nothing else to it. At the same time though he never expressed that he was supurbly grateful for the gospel or that he really had a testimony, nothing like that. We baptized him on Saturday. He rolled his little chair up to the font, no problem, not a single compliant or sign of discomfort, struggled down the stairs with me and we got into the font, he stumbled while we were down there and I had to support him, but I held him up, performed the ordinance and pulled him out of the water. I had told him before. ´Just sit in the water, don´t worry about anything, just sit back and I´ll pull you out´.
A little later, my same words came back to me as I thought about the arms of angels who pull me out. The arms of the Savior who, with outstretched arms pulls me up out of the water. So I don´t drown. You have to kick and kick and kick ... sometimes more kicks to keep your head above the water. The Lord lets your legs get strong your lungs get better, your arms larger, holding yourself out of the water. If we don´t do our part and kick, we´ll drown. But if we give it the best we can his arms are there. We can´t get out of the water by ourselves. There is nothing to grab on to or step up on except the word of god and the arms of our Savior. Just do our part and grab on. He´ll pull us out. After the baptism a few people congratulated him, then i went up and said Felicidades amigo, and stooped down for a little hug. He started to choke up. Elder Nichols went down for another hug, he started to tear. Elder Danielson congratulated him and said a few welcoming words. He went for it, he cried a little.
Sunday morning though we went over there. Elder Nichols had planned to pick him up in the morning as if by divine revelation. We went over there with Elder Danielson and found David sick sick sick. He couldn´t (supuestamente, (supposedly) because he got up and went to the bathroom fine) got out of bed. I´m not saying it wasn´t bad, it was. It was really bad. He was writhing in pain. Writhing would be the desriptive word. We called in for his medicine for him, they brought it by and after church, actually at like 7 we came back and a sister in the ward (Hermana Karmen) had studied a little nursing and injected him. After that it was all good. We confirmed him then and there also, in his house.
Sunday night we went with Jorge and his 3 younger kids. We taught them the plan of salvation and asked Jorge if he was still interested in baptism. He replied ¨I´m more sure about it now.¨ His three kids also are going to get baptized with him on the 7th of November. He´s a single man, divorced awhile back. The youngest daughter (8 years old) lives with the mom, the other 2 boys (11 and 13) Israel and Manuel, live with him and the oldest boy Axel, (like 20 something) lives in Manzanillo but comes up for the weekends and came to church about 8 days ago. it worked out well, he may have a friend in the church and we´re working with him that he can get his answer to. I want to baptize people with testimony. Only. Not cause the family does too. It´s been a rough week. I´m really over saturated it seems. I haven´t read The Book of Mormon in over a week. I KNOW that´s part of the problem. I´m trying to clean the whole house but the other elders are helping now. That´s the good part. I have district class to plan and area to worry about. We need to find new people, not just new people but I want to find by the Spirit. Family´s that are prepared by the Lord. Well that´s the gist of it for now. To answer your questions, I have used a little bit of the money that dad gave me. I´ve been stocked up for a little while though. I FINALLY bought a watch on Saturday. A little plastic weiner watch. This guy wanted 40 bucks for it. I got him down to 30. 300 pesos. It´s nice though watch alarm water proof and light. It gets the job done, it´s plastic though, the ONLY disadvantage. Other than that I´m satisfied! Lol. For now...(Christmas?? ´,= 0 ... )
I hope I get my garments now too! Lol, I need to lay to rest a few pairs with exceptional holes and deteriorations. Lol. I hate to list more stuff I need, lol. But I´ve run into a few snags. 1. They don´t sell CD players any more here, I CAN NOT find any. Could you just send that little grey one I have? It doesn´t take any cords....don´t worry about cords. Remember that little black thing you bought me for my ZUNE? in the MTC to play music with?? Send that and all the CD´s that are from the church, KK? Also, remember that studly jacket I bought from Marshall´s once? I need that, lol. I need a rain jacket and something to keep me a little warm here in winter, lol That´d be awesome. And as long as you´re going to send something I´m out of socks again. Those old shoes I had put holes in them all. I bought some here, but they´re really REALLY tiny, lol. That and they want about $4, literally, for one pair of crappy socks. So I thought I´d just ask you, lol.
I love you mom, I´m working on letters and stuff, sorry!
Just to let you know I sent like 5 emails from Gmail to make sure you got that project ... so... good luck! Lol
I love you love you love you. Both, thank you dad, I kind of want to help you out also, but I am thoroughly convinced that my time here in Mexico is 2 years, not less... ( or more) And that afterwards I will help out. Alot! Well I´m outa here! Lol
-Jake
P.S. David is reading the Book of Mormon!!!! GOD HAS ANSWERED MY PRAYERS!!! Invite him for a family home evening or something...
take him to lunch, please and thank you! I¨M SO HAPPY!