These 2 weeks were both awful and pretty cool. They were awful because I got super sick last week and sick days on the mission are not fun. At home you can sleep and watch tv and do whatever, but on the mission, you're just trapped in the house calling people all day long... not fun. But it was pretty cool because we baptized 2 people.

     The first person we baptized is named William and he's 10 years old and he was kind of frustrating to teach because he had infinite energy and likes to punch and kick and head butt us. He didn't really think he needed to learn because his older brother is a member, so he already wanted to be baptized. There was one lesson where we taught him who Joseph Smith was probably 20 times because we asked him who he was 20 times and he didn't know haha. We felt super bad though because the water heater didn't work for the baptismal font, so the water was freezing and he was shivering really bad. But he's baptized now and he's happy.

     The second person we baptized was also a little frustrating but he's probably my favorite person I've met on the mission so far. His name is Brayan and he's 14. I don't know if you guys remember, but he was the one that asked a million questions when we knocked on his door like, why are you here. We started teaching him, but I use teaching loosely because every time we went, we tried to start teaching then we'd have to answer the most random questions ever for like an hour and a half straight. We had to visit him like every day because every day we woke up to a message that said, hermanos, tengo mas preguntas, (brothers I have more questions) so we'd go and answer them, then if we were lucky, we'd teach a little bit of the gospel. But eventually after a while we put him on date to be baptized. A couple days later he actually started going crazy. He was doubting a bunch, and he was like walking in cirlcles grabbing his hair and punching his wall. We thought the date would fall through but then the next day he called me and he was like, este domingo voy a bautizarme si o si, (this Sunday I'm definitely going to be baptized) I don't know what happened to change his mind but after that he never doubted again and was super chill. We baptized him yesterday and he's doing great.

    I also tried squid and it was pretty good.

    Nothing else really happened because I trapped in the house, so this will just be a short one.












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