8-9-10

The baptisms! They're going well, but unfortunately this week I don't have pictures because we forgot the camera. Mendes is Brazilian, I think I told you that, so that was a fun baptism. This week we also had 2 confirmations (mendes and Veronica).

I got the talks, thanks very much -- I just need to translate them for her haha. She doesn't read or speak a lick of English, but I think these talks will help Elsi quite a bit.
This week has been pretty crazy, I can't really remember all of it to be completely honest. We were all over the place getting things ready for the baptism and confirmations, it was insane! Alejandro Cruz baptized Mendes, really neat since it was his first time using his priesthood! Alejandro and his wife were just baptized last Feb and are still goin head first! He receives the Melk Priesthood in 2 months and will be entering the temple to be sealed in Feb! They had to baptize Mendes 3 times because he didn't go all the way under, but overall it went well and it all worked out! I think the main thing is to get in the water and just relax. You don't need to rush! Get set up, say the prayer, slowly put your hand on their back and put their hand to their nose and then tip them back and pull them up. I think everyone sees these videos from the church where it's this gorgeous flowing motion and gets a little too excited! haha. But it was a really spiritual day!

We got some people from Cape Verde reactivated. One of them, Nissy, just moved here a month ago -- was a primary teacher years back. She is 26 and she hasn't been to church in a little while so I sat next to her during sacrament. As the sacrament was being passed, she busted out into tears. She told me she felt embarrassed because she didn't even know why she was crying! But I told her I'm sure it's the spirit working his sanctification. She only speaks Portuguese so that's really fun! I get to practice that with her. She is great, we have really high hopes for her to continue. The relief society ladies said she seems VERY knowledgeable in the gospel.

Not much else has been going on that I can remember. We're going to do some serious finding this week and try to find some new people! I hope everything is going well at home. Love you!

I will keep annabeth and sarah in my prayers... This news is ridiculous!

-Elder Conner Allred