It sounds like you all are alive and kickin´. It´s always fun hearing from you guys. I´ve been one lucky missionary. Even after 100 weeks in the mission I still receive lots of emails and letters. I must admit, I feel a little spoiled when I hear other missionaries talking about the 2 or 3 emails that they got. Keep the emails coming!
So I´ll just put your mind to rest... Yes, Coco got baptized on Saturday! Cornelio Martin Gomez is the newest member of the Güiraldes Ward. After his baptism I asked him if he was nervous. He responded with a, ¨No, I had already decided that it was what I needed to do.¨ Well there you have it. A man with a testimony. His future is truly looking bright, in the Church.
Javier, his nephew, is on fire. We conveniently have 12-14 members between the ages of 18 and 25. Seeing as he is 19, he´s fitting in quite nicely. He´s getting excited for his baptism on the 11th of May. Keep him in your prayers.
Other random note... Do you remember Raul, that got baptized like two months ago? Well, he passed the sacrament for the first time Sunday. I think I almost cried. I love seeing progression.
Last night, as we got back to the apartment at 9:30pm, we realized that we were missing something. As companions, my duty is the cellphone. For my companion, it´s the keys. You probably know where this is going... I´ll paint the picture.. There we were, tired after a long week that involved lots of walking. By Sunday night, the brain is already thinking about its Preparation Day on Monday. How nice it´s going to be, taking a breather and maybe even taking a nap. And just as you are about to walk into your apartment (with air conditioning waiting for you), you hear a question, ¨Do you have the keys?¨ Your heart sinks. As was the case with my heart. The keys were nowhere to be found. After a few failed attempts at locating the keys, we called a taxi to go stay at some other elders´ apartment. Only one problem... Three beds, four missionaries. You can do the math. I was the lucky one. How many of you can claim that you slept on the floor last night? :)
No worries, we were blessed to find the keys at a house that we had visited yesterday. Home Sweet Home!
My spiritual thought is going to be on prayer. Yesterday, I heard one of the most beautiful, heartfelt prayers that I´ve ever heard in my life. It came from a woman that we had barely met, just 20 minutes before. She told us about how she doesn´t have contact with her family and that she´s worried for her son. She feels alone, at times. It´s been years since she had given a prayer. But by her sincerity it was as if she was speaking face to face with our Heavenly Father. When the prayer ended, there were tears rolling down her face. It strengthened my testimony to know that we have the blessing of speaking with a Father that wants to know everything that happens in our life. We are never alone. The experience has pushed me to be even more sincere in my prayers. Feel free to do the same.
Hasta la proxima,
Elder McMurray
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