This week was a crazy roller coaster of emotions and stress but also excitement.
So to start off I’ll just explain that on Tuesday
afternoon we had 3 baptisms scheduled for this week. We were going to
have baptisms 3 days in a row. We had Enrique scheduled for 23rd, Carole the 24th and
Edwin the 25th. Then during exchanges on Friday
everything went terribly wrong. First of all Elder Cazier and I went
out to Denia to do Enrique’s baptismal interview and when we showed up
he was like super sad. He came out and talked to us and told us
basically his wife was being crazy and didn’t even want to let him go
outside to see us. He came out just for a minute to not be rude but had
to go back in and wouldn’t let us go try to talk to her.
Meanwhile,
Elder Coleman and Child were up in Callosa having a lesson with Edwin.
When he showed up he was also really sad and told them his wife said he
can’t be baptized. She studies with some people from a church that I
won't name but has their own special translation of the Bible. Anyways
they basically convinced her that if he was baptized into our church he
would go to hell. Edwin was really sad because he knows that it is true
and has been so excited for like the past month for his baptism.
So
yeah we get home and I’m like Elder Coleman we have bad news. He’s just
like no don’t tell me that, us too... we were so sad. So that night we
prayed really sincerely to know what we should do. The next morning when
we got up we both felt that they needed to go to Enrique’s to do the
interview right then. We called him up and asked if he was home but he
didn’t seem too keen on the idea of them going over. We all felt strongly
that they should though so they went. When they showed up his wife was
out in the yard right out back watching the grandson play. So Elder
Coleman was able to go over and talk to her/ entertain the grandson
while Cazier did the interview. During Coleman and Isabell’s
conversation she finally gave him permission to be baptized.
So
now we still have 2 baptisms planned for this week Carole and Enrique.
They both already passed their interviews and everything so it’s good.
Hopefully we will be able to help Edwin be able to get baptized soon in
the future.
Anyway,
if everybody could please pray specifically for all three of them so
everything will turnout alright that would be amazing.
Carole Culleton
Enrique Montalva Sentamans
Edwin Peñaranda
Thanks so much, love you!
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