Familia Turrubiates

 Hola a todos!

 This week was super long and stressful. We just wanted Saturday to come sooo fast! So we had the Turrubiates family that we were visiting almost everyday this week, as well as Alexis who was going to get baptized the 26th. We had to prepare the Turrubiates family for their interview and on Friday is when we had it. They came super late and we were supposed to have a lesson with Alexis but she also came late. And so then we were there till 8pm and way late for dinner with our Branch President. Earlier that day we called like 20 members to have them help us with our baptism and so that was stressful too. All that happened on Friday lol. 

 Other than preparing them we have been trying to contact a lot of people but not too many are progressing super fast which is sad but we have a whole bunch of people to be able to visit this week now. We ran into a couple and almost set a baptismal date with them, but they need to get married first so we will hopefully be helping them do that. Anyways the rest of the week felt like a drag. Like I said we just wanted Saturday to come so I'm gonna get right to it!

 Saturday, we got to the church at 8:30am to set everything up for the baptism. The Turrubiates family was early for once! Jaja and we were able to take pictures and then had the baptism. I baptized the mom and her daughter and Elder Cookson baptized the dad and the son. He did a super good job. We had been practicing the prayer all week! They were all super excited and happy afterwards!

 Then on Sunday I was able to confirm them all. They are the first full family I have baptized on my mission, and I am so excited for them! Carlos, the dad is going to be able to receive the priesthood soon too and baptize one of his other daughters who turns 8 in 2 weeks! Alexis unfortunately didn’t come to church. We were at her house for like 10 minutes waiting for her as her mom was trying to break down her door to wake her up. We had a lesson with her Sunday night and moved her date to October 3.

 A few pictures -The one of us in the rain was one of the two days it started pouring super hard for about an hour and then stopped.

 Elder Tolman