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Hey everybody 👋 how is everything going? I hope that everybody is
doing good. We had a good week ourselves, to start out we I wanna talk
about a baptism that happened this weekend, it wasn't our investigator
but it was the sister in our district but it wasn't always like that,
the lady who got baptized her name is Virginia and when I got here to
this area about 8 weeks ago we were actually teaching her and after
our first appointment she decided that she no longer wanted to be
taught so she completely dropped us but the sisters were still working
with her kids and one day they just decided to talk to Virginia again
and a couple of weeks later she was baptized, I could not believe it
because in just a couple of short weeks she changed completely, the
reason I can tell that she changed a lot is because a few days before
she got baptized she asked the sisters if we could give her a blessing
and we were able to go to her house and talk to her again and she was
a completely different, before she was super depressed and she told us
how she has all these problems and how she can never be happy because
she has too many trial but this time she was smiling she was really
excited and super happy, she told us that even though she still has a
lot of problems in her life she now is really happy and wants to share
this happiness with everybody, it was kinda cool because after her
baptism when she was sharing her testimony she expressed how she wants
to be a missionary so that everybody can feel the happiness that she
feels now. It was really cool to see how the gospel of Jesus Christ
changed Virginia and how it can change anybody if they let it change
them. On Sunday she was confirmed and she wanted me and elder
santibanez to be in the circle and that was a cool experience as well,
also on Sunday we had meeting with the bishop before church and so we
had to be there at 8 so we were rushing trying to get ready and be
there in time because we have 4 elders in the apartment and only 1
shower but anyways we got ready we left made it on time to the meting
and as soon as we walk into the bishops office I realized I didnt have
a name tag haha so likely elder santibanez had 2 name tags on him so I
was wearing one of his, not a lot of people noticed but the ones that
did were a little bit confused. We also had 5 investigators at church
so that was good, only one of them is progressing because the others
just come to church but don't do anything else like read or pray, but
it's still way good that they are there. Another thing that made this
week a good one is because for the last couple of days the weather has
been perfect, the average was probably high 50s in the last couple of
days and it felt really weird to not be cold when we are walking
outside.

Ok have a good week!
Love,
Elder Pugmire🙂