Oct 26, baptisms, changes

Well this week had a lot of great success and a lot of wasted time. Lets take time to explain. First with the good. We had two baptisms this week, the inactive/ non member/ member, and one of the young boys. Our district leader said the young boy was awesome in his interview. Like I expected. He is super smart and remembered everything. He has given up drinking coffee, although his older brother and inactive mother still drink it. So, I dont feel as bad baptising a young boy like him, because he has a testimony and knows his stuff. The other baptism is a good story. If you remember we were waiting for Salt Lake to check to see if he had a register for one of his two names, right? HE had had his interview and all, but we had to wait a little more. So, he called us and told us that he was going to be moving like two days before we were to find out if he had registers or not. So, doing what every good missionary would do, we baptised him anyways, without knowing is he had a register or not. Mostly it was a ¨just in case¨ baptism and confirmation (moslty it was our bishops idea). We had the new register ready in case the old ones didnt appear, but if they did we would have thrown away the new register. We baptised and confirmed him at 7 in the morning on tuesday, two hours before he left to work for 6 months. We found out that yes, our prompting to baptize him was correct and they didnt have any register. So, there we go. As for the other investigators, we have a few dates for matrimonios and baptisms, one of the couples is suiper strong and the other is hesitant. Also we are going to put more dates for a marriage and baptism this week hopefully. As for other investigators, things are slow. Its tough finding the ones who are genuinely interested in Christ. But we are moving along. Now to the good stuff. Or bad. We had changes today. I actually cried last night when Garcia was saying goodbye to some members. It was sad. He got moved from trainer to zone leader and I got my new companion. I am basically an unofficial trainer. Usually a missionary gets a missionary older than him to help him out and all, but no. My companion now has only a month and a half in Costa Rica and doesnt know a lick of spanish. I have no idea what the AP´s and president were thinking. HIs first trainer failed miserably in teaching him so basically im his trainer. Im freaking out. But, revelation is real and I have something to learn from this and I need to help him a lot. Its just crazy that wIth my second companion, Im senior companion and pretty much a trainer. I will be teaching alone, contacting alone, handling planning, ward business, and everything. Yikes. He is super awesome and actually, he is the Elder that the president had me call to help him with Spanish. So yup. Thanks president. Haha. Nuts. Crazy. Anyway. Thats whats on my mind. Till next week.
Elder Smith
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