March 21, 2018
Too many things happened this week! Like, a lot of things! It's gonna be hard to write 'em all!
Ok, so my new ward is pretty cool! We have some nice members but it's a bit small with 50 attending members. Saturday, we had Fransisca's baptism which went super well; there were no problems or anything and the baptism only took one try. It was great!
We also had John, our Haitian, get baptized on Sunday. It was stake conference so we had to go early to our church building to start filling the font and then leave to grab John and go to stake conference. Then we ran back to see how things were at our church building and the font had started flooding!!! And what was kinda super funny was that this was the second time this has happened to my comp in this ward! So, we got into action mode.
I was on splits because my comp went to get another Haitian member who was going to be speaking at the baptism, so I took it upon myself to go change into the baptismal clothing. We had to unclog the font and since I didn't have an extra shirt and we were alone, I went shirtless.
Well, since we were only filling the font with hot water, it was not a pool of salvation but rather a lake of fire and brimstone which I could not enter into without getting burned! So there I was, waiting for the water to cool down and adding cold water, when some members started showing up and I'm hiding by the steps of the font while everyone's sweeping out water. Then, to my dismay, one of the sister missionaries of the ward opens the door to the font to see, or something, and I'm there shirtless 
Finally, a little later, I was able to drain the font and we were able to start the service.
I gave one of the talks and, since it was a Haitian who spoke little Spanish, I prepared the talk in Creole! It wasn't 5-star Creole or anything but since I've been learning by necessity, I was able to give a short message.
The baptism went well and John actually got a bit emotional after the ordinance. And, to our delight, he finally found a job, after 2 and a half months in Chile, the very next day after getting baptized! #neat
Anyway, that's about all, I think. We have a good pool of investigators. Most of them are Haitian and a lot are really cool.
That's been my week. Really cool and super busy! Have a good one!
Elder Sierra
I got to go back to my old area and baptize Francisca.
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