2 Baptisms and a Call Home

Well, this past week was a really good week! First of all we were able to have 2 baptisms! 1 for an hermana that I have been teaching since January. We baptized her daughter in February and this week she finally felt ready to take the step of baptism! On Friday she told us that she wasn't going to do it, but after a good spiritual lesson with her, she felt ready and her doubts were resolved. Her name is Eneyda.

The other baptism was a man that was pretty much a member. He has gone to church every week since I've been in Jalapa. We thought that he was baptized over 20 years ago, so we wanted to ordain him to the Aaronic Priesthood. But when we looked for his records, they didn't appear. So we had to baptize him so he has  record and can receive the priesthood. He is pretty awesome. His name is Orlando.

On Sunday at church we had 27 people which is really good with a lot of recent converts there as well. Then after church we went to the river to baptize Eneyda and Orlando.

After the baptisms we went to lunch and then to call the family for mothers day! It was pretty awesome.

After the call home, we went to visit a recent convert named Daysi. While talking with her, it started to rain really hard with thunder and lightning, when all of the sudden all of the lights go out in all of Jalapa. So we finished there, and when there is a blackout here it is kind of dangerous, so Elder Ruiz and I ran home which was a 20 minute walk or like 5 mins running in the pouring rain in a blackout. It was actually pretty fun, and a good story for later in life!

Well, that's all for this week,

-Elder Taylor

Me, Eneyda, Orlando, Elder Ruiz at the baptism

A little puppy named Pantera (Panther)

Jalapa at 4:45am

A plantain more than double the size of my hand!


A couple of videos First of a parrot and the second of a puppy