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Anibal's Baptism!

June 29, 2020

On Saturday, June 27th, I got to baptize Anibal! It was such a unique experience because the baptismal service was modified to follow the Corona Virus guidelines. First of all, because we have been teaching over video chat, the first time I met Anibal in person was at his baptismal service! We had to wear gloves and masks, and only 4 people attended the baptism. The rest of the people watched through Zoom. It was a little awkward because we couldn't hug him or shake his hand to congratulate him, we just stood 6 feet away and told him "congratulations!". But I wrote him a letter, baked him cookies, gave him a tie with my name on the back, and I gave him one of my nametags. Elder Goodman left behind one of his suits that didn't fit anymore so that I could give it to Anibal on his baptismal day! He was so happy!

A cool thing about Anibal is that he speaks 0 English and only a little bit of Spanish. His native language is called Mum, and it's not even on google translate because it is pretty much extinct haha. So sometimes it was hard to teach him because we barely speak the same language, but his faith is so strong that he still got baptized!

The whole New York City mission had a total of 15 baptisms this past weekend, and 4 of them were in my district! I know that I had literally nothing to do with that but it was a proud District Leader moment for me haha, my district is pretty awesome.

We also made some awesome food this week, my favorite being an improvised smores pie! I will send a picture because MAN it was good! Someone we are teaching also made us SO MUCH FOOD for no reason other than she is just an angel!! We were blessed with large quantities of delicious food this week!

We have a couple other baptisms coming up too, so stay tuned for that!

Have a great week!

Elder Webster

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