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Alejandro's Baptism

 January 18, 2021

HELLO EMAIL SQUAD! How have you all been? This week was really really amazing and I had lots of powerful spiritual experiences. I think Elder Wooley and I might be allergic to the spirit because we kept getting teary-eyed throughout the week. Pretty strange.


First of all, Alejandro got baptized! He was SO ready! The baptismal service went smoothly, and he loved every second. My favorite part was when he bore his testimony at the end. I think every person in the room started crying in that moment. He said that he has been praying for 30 years and never saw any answers come, and he started to doubt God's existence. But when he met us, he finally started to feel God's love, see answers come, had experienced a huge change of heart, and knows God led him exactly where he needs to be. It was so amazing to hear him say that and getting to see the small role I got to play in his conversion. My family was able to watch the baptism over zoom, which was also super cool! I see a bright future for Alejandro, he is SO faithful and the ward has welcomed him in so well.

We had another really spiritual experience in a lesson with someone named Verenice. We started teaching her about 2 weeks ago, and found out that a member, Hermano Matos, lives in her same apartment building! Without us asking, Hermano Matos visited her to talk about how her experience with the missionaries has been so far. He testified to her about The Book of Mormon and shared James 1:5 with her, inviting her to pray for herself to know it is true. So Verenice prayed about it that night, and went to bed. The next morning, she woke up to some catholic chain-mail spam thing from her current church, and it turned out to be James 1:5! She was ASTONISHED that God led her to the same scripture right after she prayed about The Book of Mormon! Now she has a super strong testimony of it and has no doubt that it is true. Keep in mind, we had no idea that the member visited her, or that she was reading and praying. We were so surprised in the lesson when we found out the whole story. We taught the restoration and it was so amazing to see her connect all the dots. The spirit was so strong, and I think we were having another one of those allergic reactions.
 
We trained all week to go on a big run on Saturday with one of the members, and then he ended up canceling on us (I think he didn't want us to slow him down haha). We were kind of relieved that we didn't have to do the run anymore, but we went on some awesome runs as we were training.

Some other cool things: I made Navajo tacos and it was amazing. I visited my first NY hot dog stand and ate a hot dog in front of the giant Macy's store where they do the thanksgiving parade every year.

THAT'S IT! LOVE YOU ALL, HAVE A GREAT WEEK!

Elder Webster

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