Okay so the baptism last Thursday went through without any problems. The Debora is the birthday/baptism girl in the photos. She turned 9 on Thursday and decided to get baptized. Her mom was baptized into the church about 6-7 months ago and is active. She is our librarian and puts all the books out for the classes. Before she was called as the librarian she would get to church about 30 minutes late every Sunday. Since having her calling she is there in church every Sunday 30 minutes early. When President Hinckley said that every new convert and member needed a friend, a calling, and to be nourished by the good word of God, he was right. He was probably right because God told him so. We are hoping that her other two children will follow the example of their younger sister and be baptized.
After the Baptism we had a little party for her. She is a shy little girl so she wanted to have only a few people at her baptism. She invited a total of 3 sisters from the branch and her family. When she invited one sister she said that only she could go and not her kids. The cake was delicious and the mate cocido was tempting. The rule in the mission for mate is, NONE! The missionaries used to be able to drink mate cocido in their apartments just not with anyone. Mate cocido is made like normal tea. Sometimes they put milk in it as if it were coffee. Debora's little brother really enjoyed the cake and cocido. You can tell from the mess on his face. He is a really cute kid. The younger sister of Debora says that in 2 years when she is 8 she will get baptized and that she wants a bigger cake for her baptism.
Yesterday Elder King and I made a 2.5 hour trip to Curuzú Cuatía. We had to take part in their district meeting. Elder King talked about faith vs. fear which is what Pres. Del Castillo talked about in our zone leaders meeting (consejo). I talked to the elders about statistics in the mission and what would happen if the elders did ONE more thing. The power of one was a presentation that president did in “consejo”. He showed the statistics in the mission from Sept. 08 to Jun. 09 on a power point. After talking about those statistics he showed us what the statistics would be if every elder did ONE more thing. For example, one more lesson with member, one more new investigator, one more in church, one more with a baptismal date, one more lesson, one more baptism. We would complete all of our goals if this happened. It was a really good presentation. The elders in the district meeting are definitely going to do better this week. After the meeting we went to Gridos to eat some ice cream and then we headed back to Libres. I took some pictures of stuff in Curuzú.
In the coming weeks we will be seeing miracles. We have a baptism set for the 8th of August. We will be setting dates with seven investigators this week. We are planning on having a baptism every week of August. President Del Castillo has us working on "White August". He calls it that because the mission is going to duplicate baptisms from last August by having 96 baptisms this August. Elder King and I are hoping to help out in that by having seven in August. President asked for two baptisms from each companionship. I think heaven will be happy with the efforts of the mission.
Things are going great here in Libres. I hope to hear from everyone next week. I enjoy the news updates that everyone sends me. I’ll be praying for Lalani and the baby. Love you all. Adios.
Elder Hunsaker
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