December 6, 2017
Dear Family and Friends,
This week was pretty great, mostly because Marjorie got baptized!!! Everything went according to plan except there were a few hiccups on the actual day of the baptism. The mission had no baptismal clothing so we had to ask a sister in the ward for her temple clothing and then, when she got to church on Sunday, we realized that there was nothing for her to wear underneath. So there we were with the font filled while some members went running to grab clothing for her. We just put on a 10-minute Mormon Message and by the time it was over, we had everything figured out.
The baptismal service was fantastic! We involved some members and I gave the talk on the Holy Ghost. The baptism itself went well, too; there was no mistake or anything. After the welcome to the ward, Marjorie decided to bear her testimony and it was awesome! She talked about her conversion story and how she felt that the Lord had prepared her even before the missionaries met her and that she felt like, before fully accepting the Gospel, she was partially blind and didn't know why she didn't accept the Gospel sooner! It was really beautiful. Her mom was there, too, (she's not a member) and she cried. It was sweet.
Marjorie will be getting confirmed this next Sunday. We visited her yesterday and she said her friend had given her some random book about prophets and how there was a woman prophet today, and what-not, and she was like, "Nah, this book contradicts the Book of Mormon so it's stupid" We were pretty proud of her! 
Today, I was with Elder Tanner, an elder I've known since the MTC, because my companion is doing farewells in another ward with an old comp of his. It turns out, we've been in the same ward on two different occasions so we're going to take advantage and visit a couple of families. We already had lunch with one family.
In the morning we had nothing to do so we went on a bike ride to explore the very edges of the mission, which really wasn't that hard. Then we ended up almost getting lost, but in the end we just got a bit sunburned. (Actually, I got tan and Elder Tanner got sunburned.)
That's about the week. We're going to keep going at it with our investigators, however, a LOT of them are just super busy right now because many have end of year exams, so it's hard. I think Imma get some stuff to make sugar cookies and go deliver it to all our investigators to keep in contact with them. We'll see how things go!
Love you all. Have a great week!
-Elder Sierra
HOMBRES TRABAJANDO (MEN WORKING)
HOMBRES TRABAJANDO (MEN WORKING)
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