This week was so AWESOME!
First off! SOFIA FINALLY GOT BAPTIZED! Friday! It wasn´t
easy...Last weekend the other ward had a baptism and they didn´t drain the
font...so they just shut all the doors and called it good...nope. It turned
into like a NASTY fish tank. It smelled SOOO bad and it was FULL of nasty
water. So Thursday night we drain it all and come to find out, the drains here
aren´t just drains they are like suction things so if it stops sucking out
water it stops working so we had like 2 inches of water left in the font and we
had to drain it by hand...with towels...so we would put towels in the water
then wring them out in buckets.
Friday, we needed to CLEAN the font! Yayy...and so we got to
drain it by hand again after cleaning it like 4 times...and then! WE LOST WATER
in the font...a sink in the kitchen and 2 faucets outside still worked but
nothing else...so we spent 5 hours filling the font. With huge pots of boiling
water and lots of buckets...haha, it was quite the adventure. Another one of
those #onlyinArgentina moments. The elders helped us a ton. They came over and
brought us lunch and helped us all afternoon fill the font.
Her baptism was amazing! Everything went perfectly. I was so
happy to see her whole family at church even her dad came! Hermana Greene and I
sang Cuando me bautize (When I am Baptized). We sang one verse in English
because Sofia asked us too and then after her grandpa told us we have to be
angles to sing that pretty and then another lady told us we can´t speak Spanish
very well because she couldn´t understand one of the verses...i.e. the verse in
English...Great.
I hope that EVERYONE had the opportunity to watch conference. I
think I have to admit this is the first time I ever got ready conference
weekend (other than the few times I actually WENT to the Conference Center...)
haha. Another struggle...We still don´t have power in the chapel, so we didn´t
have internet...so we couldn´t watch it in the church. So none of our
investigators got to watch it with us. I think one watched it alone but we´ll
see! Haha. Anyway we went to a recent converts house and watched it with her
and the Elders because no one was in town. It was super fun, but sitting for
that long killed my back and my DL wouldn´t let me go out and work after (keep
in mind that conference ends here at like 7:00 because of the time change and
we had to wait for the translation so we didn´t really finish until 7:30...So
we had to go home and rest. Anyway we got a little bored and had some fun with
tape!
They talked a ton about families and getting married and at
first I was just thinking...how in the world is this supposed to help me I´m on
a freaking mission. Then today I was studying and I realized, it wasn´t for me.
It was to remind me what I can do FOR my investigators. Elder L Tom Perry
talked about how many world and religious leaders are coming to realize the
importance of the family and that is so great (A Muslim quoted 2 paragraphs of
our Family Proclamation to The World in a huge meeting in the Vatican). But the
gospel of Jesus Christ is the one and only place where we can have our families
for eternity.
Anyway I hope that everyone that had the chance to watch
conference did and loved it and for those of you who were too busy, IT´S ALL
ONLINE NOW! I highly suggest EVERYONE watch it.
I love all of you! Each and every one. I thank you for your love
support and prayers.
Always,
Hermana Barker
xoxo
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