Baptisms in Planes

Well this week was pretty awesome!

It started out with a relaxing Pday at the stake center playing soccer and UNO. Until someone kicked the soccer ball onto the roof of the church. But this morning we went and bought a new one with the district.

On Tuesday I was on divisions or splits with Elder Compean from Mexico. Elder Compean is a pretty cool guy. The day that I had with him was pretty darn productive. We found some promising investigators and had an awesome visit with the Villanueva family. I think I included last week how Maitte was going to tell us on Tuesday whether or not she was going to get baptized this week. Well I was pretty anxious the whole day waiting for that visit. We got to their house and I had forgot that Maitte was in seminary. So we waited with the rest of the family and Dunia gave us dinner. She got home and we talked for a moment and then she said yes. I took out my agenda and immediately started making the program and all that jazz. While we were doing all this Anai, Maitte´s younger sister told us that she wanted to get baptized with her sister. I had died and gone to heaven.

So we spent just about the entire week reviewing the lessons, making plans for the baptism, and doing interviews for Maitte and Anai. 

On Wednesday I went to the zone leaders area for divisions again. And we did the baptismal interviews for their investigators also. And since we share the ward with them we had 4 baptism on Friday. It was what the missionaries call here a "Noche Blanco" or White Night because everyone is dressed in white.

The baptism on Friday was great. Some Villanueva family´s relatives came and saw and we had good talks prepared and a bunch of support from the members. It was pretty great.

This week I read in personal study about the 3 Nephites. I did some comprehensive thinking and these are some of the thoughts I had. I wondered why Jesus gave the gift of immortality to the 3 Nephites. I don´t think that Jesus would have given that gift to just anyone. Jesus must have been sure that these 3 men wouldn´t waste the gift that he gave them. He must have been sure that they would use it correctly. They must have had a pure desire to help bring others unto Christ. In other words they must of had charity. So I thought, "Wow, if they needed charity(even if it was just a little bit) to live immortally in a terrestrial world. Imagine what we need to leave immortally in a celestial world!" It reminded me that charity is the essence of a celestial life. Helping others come unto Christ is preparing us to live a celestial life. I hope that someday I can gain part of that charity here in this life. 

Thanks again everyone. I can´t thank you enough. But I hope saying it every week makes up a little of the difference.

Love you all,

Elder Gessell