All That Matters

To read a letter from Phillip to Gretchen, go here.

Here's his letter from the week...

The big news of the week is that Confesora was baptized.  It was a great baptism.  Elder Urry did it.  We weren´t exactly sure how to do it because she doesn´t have much control of her legs, and she´s a fairly hefty lady.  He tried a few times, but her legs kept coming up.  Finally, what we ended up doing is a priest from the branch rolled up his pants and came in to the font.  He held her legs down, while Elder Urry went in with her.  No need to worry, she was immersed and the next day became a member of the Church.  She gave a great testimony in Sacrament yesterday too.  She´s not all the way there in the head, but she knows the church is true and she comes every sunday.  That´s all that matters baby!

We had some great lessons with the gangster, Amaoris.  Actually, probably the best lessons I´ve had on the mission.  We went with a woman in the ward named Marsela.  She´s my favorite in the ward.  She got baptized about 4 years ago, and always bears an awesome testimony of the Book of Mormon.  He reads and prays.  The problem is, he left out of town for about a month yesterday.  So we gave him all the pamphlets, told him to keep reading, and hopefully, after he returns we´ll get him to Church.  And the papers of Bolivar showed up this week.  He´s getting married.  He has met with the missionaries just about every day for the past 5 months, so he knows everything just as well as all the members.  Honestly, probably better than most.  So this Saturday we´re going to baptize him and his son Carlito.  I´m super excited. We´re still working on Fledida and Luis.  I doubt that Luis will be baptized now, but hopefully they get married so that Fledida can become a member.  

I had a good week.  I love you all!  -Elder LeCheminant