Raul's Baptism

Woo! Very very cool baptism for Raul Turpo, and everything went really smoothly, Vilcanota is an awesome ward, they helped us out a ton in the baptism and basically just in general with Raul. In this part of Peru the church is very new so a lot of ward and branches struggle with what to do and how to do it but dang it's getting better;) We love seeing the progress of the wards and the church here. But anyways, Raul's baptism went super smooth and you could tell Raul was ready and that he could feel the spirit during the ordinance. All the missionaries (10 of us) in Sicuani came to see the baptism which I was really grateful for haha. Honestly just feel really blessed lately for the opportunity to help people come unto Christ and make covenants with God. This week I was thinking a lot about how terribly imperfect I am but how God could still use my hands to help so many people. Really cool. 

Cool experience while we were preparing Raul this week, his cousin just all of a sudden walked in while we were planning Raul's baptism and sat down and started listening. I was like oh hi what's your name, his name is Jhon- yes, spelled like that- he's 13 and he used to listen to the missionaries before and has gone to church a couple of times, he told us he really wants to get baptized in this church and wants to listen to us. In that moment I couldn't believe what was coming out of his mouth that's like a missionaries dream to hear those words lol. We asked him to say the closing prayer and he said he was super grateful for Raul's example, Jhon came to his baptism as well and honestly still can't believe it at this moment haha. It's weird that we haven't met Jhon until now and no one told us about him but thank goodness he walked in that one day, God has a time for everything. 

So yah, just very grateful for all these experiences, the time is going by faster and faster which is scary but I'm just gonna take advantage of what I have to serve the Lord. Love you all and hope you all have a good week!! Let me know how things are going!