As the title says, we almost had a baptism. We had a date for Saturday to baptize a young man (14) named Rolando. But when the time came he said that he wanted to wait till Sunday to do it. So i the morning we went to his house to bring him to the baptism. But then his grandma and mom (who also almost got baptized 2 weeks ago) started saying that he shouldn't do it and so he didn't. But hopefully sometime in the future they will get baptized.
But this week we had a really awesome experience. On Tuesday, the Zone Leaders came to Somoto from Ocotal to do divisions. And the way it worked out was that me and my comp stayed here and Elder Alofipo (see pics) and Elder Ward stayed here as well. And May 30th in Nicaragua is Mother's Day. And it is more celebrated here than in the United States. So we had a Mother's Day party at the church building. We had lots of people there and lots of cake and soda (Nicaraguan Fancy food). It went really well. And afterwards we got pizza.
After eating pizza, we had nothing really going on, when we passed the local basketball court in the park. Elder Ward saw 4 dudes playin' around and went over to them to play against them. They agreed so we played. With the agreement that if we won, they had to go to church on Sunday and if they won we buy them soda. Well we lost the first game 11-9. (We were just getting warmed up, and we were playing with ties on) Then we won 11-9 and 11-8 to finish the games. We won the last game on a fade-away 3 pointer by yours truly! It was really fun but we got really sweaty and finished at like 9:20pm. And the sad part is that they didn't go to church. But maybe in the future when they remember the time they got beat by 4 white dudes in ties and white shirts.
That was just about it, always workin' hard,
Stay cool,
-Elder Taylor
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| Me & Elder Alofipo. He is from Salt Lake |
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| A view in Somoto |
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