Failures on Frida

 I am not going to lie, that was one stressful baptism! But hey, at least Yadira was baptized! She is such an awesome lady that really desires to follow God. She was baptized even though her immediate family wasn't the most supportive- luckily the ward showed a lot of support and so did her extended family that are members.

Now for some details! Our Bishop made it very clear that in this ward we do not have any kind of food or refreshments after our baptismal services. We told that to Yadira, but made the mistake of not mentioning anything to her extended family because they brought sandwiches and pan dulce and that didn't float super well for Bishop, but he didn't mind because he understood it wasn't our fault. The other big mistake concerns who baptized her. She wanted her uncle, who has been a big support to her in this whole process, to drive from Calexico (bless the Imperial Valley) and baptize her, and so we called him and he said he would. We double checked a few days before and he said he was still good to do it. He showed up about four minutes before the baptism started and said, "So who's going to baptize her?" AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!!!!!!!!!!

We almost died! We explained how we had asked him and he kept on saying that nobody asked him and things were almost a little dramatic, but in the end we just ended up apologizing and saying that it was our fault and then everything was ok. Yadira was totally chill the entire time, but wow I felt like I was in a supernovela or something. But she was baptized, loved it, and bore a beautiful testimony at the end which made it all worth it.

I also got to go on exchanges this last week into my old area in Logan Heights! That was so cool! One cool miracle was that some prayers of mine that I offered a year ago were finally answered! While I was there we found this young man named Hugo that said he was a member, but just less active, but he didn't know his address and didn't have a phone. I prayed so hard that somehow we would be able to find Hugo again and that we would be able to help him come back to church. Well when I went back this past week my companion for the day told me we were visiting a less active family whose name I didn't realize. When we showed up, none other than good ol' Hugo answered the door! My jaw hit the ground! We were able to teach him the Restoration and he said he would come to church! Prayers are ALWAYS answered.

Things are still going great here in City Heights! Elder Gunther and I are having a blast! My dad just sent me an email saying I only have 105 days left of my mission! These two years have flown by, and I'm grateful for every single day the Lord has given me here in San Diego to teach repentance to these wonderful people. I love you all!

Elder Dahl