Elder Justyn Pollock

This week we had the baptism of Ginger! She is the sister of Juliana who was baptized about a month ago (see the past photo I sent which has a picture with Ginger and her sister in Juliana´s baptism). She was very hesitant at first of being baptized or no but from the week before her baptism she became very decisive about being baptized. It was in good timing that she became so decided, as she actually moved to a new house inside of the ward boundries. The challenge came in that the owners of her new house are die-hard members of another religion. That created problems with being able to teach and visit that family efficiently to say the least. It didn´t prove to be a discouragment to her though! The moment of her baptism she was very happy. She bore a great testimony. Many members came in support of her (or maybe just to eat cake haha just kidding). It was awesome!

   Another awesome occurance was with one of the family of inactives we are ¨rescuing¨ (One of our duties our Mission President has giving to the missionaries here, according to President Monson´s talk a while back on ¨going to the rescue¨). We actually found this family a week and a half ago when we felt inspired to knock on a door (not something we casually do, only when the spirit indicates). When we knocked on the door, the Mom of the family happily began talking to us, and after conversing for a while we found out she has been inactive for years. Last sunday she came to church with her daughter. During this past week as we´ve been visitng them. One day the Mom introduced us to Jesus, a 10 year old kid who just recently moved in with her. She is his aunt and she had raised him since he was little, and now recently he moved in with her! She told us she wants him to be baptized, and we instantly set a date for the first week in December with him. Jesus came to church with his sister-cousin this week, as the Mom was sick on Sunday. We went to visit them after church on Sunday and found the Dad there as well with the older brother, Sam, who are also inactives and are hard to find in their home. We were able to talk to them and they commited to coming to church next week as well.

   The other invesitgator we have mostly been teaching is a 14 year old investigator Paul. He came to church again with his neighbor who is a counsler to the bishop, and loves it. He´s preparing to be baptized soon and is excited to do so. He came with a nonmember freind this week as well!

  Another random occurance, yesterday we contacted an old guy sitting on the street. He told us he´s from Piñas, which is my first sector, and I asked his last name he said Robles. I asked him if he knows Cesibel and he said he does, and we found that she is his great grandaughter. Small world! Cesibel was the first person I baptized here, and I met her great grandfather in another city!

   I´ve pretty much come to write mostly about the people we teach and the food we eat for P-days haha.

   As for food, so that I don´t break the tradition, we bought a roasted chicken and ate bbq chicken sandwiches which was delicious. I continue eating the great cereal here everyday as well, chocopic by Nestle. (product sponsor unintended)

Hope you all have a great week!

Love

Elder Justyn Pollock