Hermana White

This week was pretty great! Saturday we had the baptism of Jose, and it was so cool. An 18-year-old in our ward baptized him, which was pretty cool to see him be baptized by his friend. Jose was an investigator of Hermana Montalvo and Hermana Mamani before I got here, but my first day I taught the Restoration with him. It has been so cool to see him make the changes in his life necessary to be baptized and really see his conversion take place.

He bore his testimony during the baptism and expressed how grateful he is to have the truth and the opportunity to make this covenant with God, and that he knows that it's only the beginning to his path to live with God again. For those of us who are baptized members of this church, we take our covenants for granted sometimes. We take for granted that we have the truth, that there is a plan for each of us to live with our families for eternity! That we have a loving Heavenly Father who gave His Son to live and die for us to make this all possible. It's an incredible gift to know that because of Jesus Christ, we all have the choice to make these promises and to return to the presence of God free from the burden of sin and regret. It's quite beautiful.

Also, today for Pday we went to Amapala, an island about an hour in bus and half-hour in boat from our area. There are 2 elders from our zone there. It's so beautiful! We played on the beach for a little while and then explored a little cave nearby. It's always fun to get outside of our area and see new places.

That's pretty much it for this week, not a lot of variety going on here. We are praying for rain, since we haven't had any for a good 2 weeks. Last night there was a lightning storm but no moisture. We heard that when Elder Nelson was here he left a blessing for rain and we have faith that it'll come true.

Have a wonderful week!

Love, Hermana White-But actually more Red