Our district is full of troopers!!! I´ve never seen a group of missionaries so afflicted yet so determined and successful! Our district leader has a really painful ingrown toenail, his companion is suffering from an inflamed knee, Elder Dos Santos still suffers from shoulder pains, my companion, Elder Barroso´s back problems continue to worsen (the two keep me busy as I give massages that I learned from Julie each night before we sleep), and although my ankle is perfectly fine, I had a fun night on Friday fighting some pretty intense jaw pain that could be caused by an ear infection. I slept a total of about 3 hours trading hot rags to help with the pain. No pain killer we had in the house was doing the job. We called Sister Young the next morning, and waited for three hours at a ``ready help´´ center (which was on strike) becasue no other hospital in the city accepts our health plan. In the end, we just went to the pharmacy and asked for help there, because nobody was going to help us. After receiving some medicine at about noon the next day, I finally managed to get some sleep. Elder Barroso said that he had to make quite a bit of a rukus to wake me up to eat lunch, hahaha. Even shaking me like a crazy person wasn´t pulling me out of my trance. He thought I had died. :)
All that being said, I have an announcement:
WE HAD A BAPTISM!!!!
Our investigator, Juneia, has been reading and praying every day since our first visit, and said that she was excited to go to church again, that she traded her coffee for juice in the morning, and that she received an answer and knows the church is true. The only thing holding her back was the Law of Chastity, which we thought she broke with her boyfriend during the weekends. We discovered on Thursday that they don´t do any of that at all!!! SURPRISE! That same visit, we invited her to be baptized on Sunday, and she accepted. In the following visits, she told us that she wasn´t going to let anything stop her from getting baptized!!! It was incredible to see her so confident, because in the first visit, she seemed pretty squishy about everything. The Gospel changes people!
We also had a great work week and found several people with much potential! The district has baptized at least one person each week this transfer, even thought we´re all dying! he he. We´re looking forward to this last week of the transfer. It´s been really spiritual to see everyone helping each other in some way. Even though we´re suffering, we´re not suffering alone. :) But really, this is getting good! I love you all, and see you soon!
Elder Crapo
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