The baptism of the Chavez was awesome! It was just a little Spanish group and it was so fun. I loved it. When I baptized Juan, I felt pure joy. I couldn't think of a time that I had been happier. It was so awesome I probably looked like a dork just chillin' in the font, smiling my face off.
At the baptism I also forgot my towel (classic) so I dried off with paper towels. Fun time.
This week was a pretty good one, even though I don't remember anything. As usual. We talked to a lot of people, which always gets me hyped up. Idk if this is "bad", but I just get pumped when I do something I'm kind of afraid of, so it has been fun and we have found some interesting ways to talk to people. But, if you do it without having faith, you can come off as seeming like a salesman who hates his job and life. I've learned if I just act like I know what I'm doing, it usually turns out ok! But there are the occasional failures. Those are fun.
We met this guy named Edgar who is AWESOME. He is from Mexico and worked in the city of Carmen! (Playa del Carmen, where we were in 2017). He told us a story of when he was working there as a security guard for a boat on the dock. It was crazy. Apparently, these doods drugged his beer and shrimp and so he was knocked out, then they stole a motor boat off the side of the big boat. When his boss found out about it, he threatened to shoot him right there and then, but instead they kneeled him down and pushed him out the window from about the 3rd or 4th floor of the boat. He should've died, cause he landed like a belly or back flop on the water and ended up swimming away. They told him they were gonna kill him, and so he was trynna get out of Carmen. There is one exit out of that town. So, he went there, where they were waiting for him at the bus stop. He convinced the lady selling tickets to sell him one, even though he was all bloody and stuff, and told him to go hide in the suitcases. He eventually made it out of the city. ISN'T THAT NUTS?? He told us that because we asked him if he had ever felt God close to him before. México is crazy.
On Friday we had a goal to find a family of 4. We worked and worked all day, without dinner, trying to find this family we felt like we were supposed to find. Around 8:30, we parked the car on a street and saw Wreck it Ralph on TV. I didn't even think about it, but Elder Fenton said something like "That means there's probably kids there." SO we shot up and went and knocked on the door and a hispanic lady with her 2 daughters opened up. She said that her husband wasn't home but he would be at 9 o' clock. We ran and got Mcdonalds really fast and were back there at 9 pm on the dot and went up and knocked on the door. The husband answered, who was not interested at all and one of the cockiest guys I've ever met haha. And it turns out they have 4 kids. BUT if we wouldn't have set that goal, we probably wouldn't have had the motivation we did to knock the door and give that family the chance to hear the gospel fo Christ. Even though we didn't baptize them and it was a family of 6 and not 4, I still felt the spirit tell me that that was the family we were supposed to find that day. We did the best we could.
We got to drive out to Gardner this week to teach a sort of less active and his mom, who is not a member. She slammed on us. I was with an English elder, and so I asked her if she had ever read it or anything like that but she was not having it haha. It was the longest appointment of my life. We got hot chocolate and cookies after though so we good.
Mother's Day is coming up and I get to call home!
Elder Ogden
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