Baptisms!

Hello everybody we had a really good week, I don't have a lot of time
to write today because we were really busy but we did have 2 baptisms
that went really well, Amado and Jeyuri were baptized and then
confirmed on Sunday. We didn't take any pictures with the baptismal
suits tho😕

Week 1 in new roc

WOW, THIS AREA IS AWEOME!! After one week of being here I absolutely
love it. Our area covers New Rochelle, Mamaroneck and Port Chester, we
do most of our work in Port Chester but we also have some people we
visit in New Rochelle and I haven't even stepped foot in Mamaroneck
but this week was awesome, we have a lot of work to do here and a lot
of people to teach, I'm still learning all the names of everybody and
still haven't seen everybody yet but the people that I have seen are
awesome, we have 5 people with a baptismal date right now and 2 of the
people were gonna get baptized this weekend but we have general
conference so that will have to be moved to the next next sunday(we
have baptisms on Sunday here)

Speaking of Sunday yesterday we had a good turnout at church we had
like 7 investigators at church and a total of about 90 people, so it's
not that a bad compared to other wards and branches. So the week
before I got here there was a baptism of a lady named Luz, and since
baptisms are on Sunday it means that she wasn't gonna get confirmed a
member until this Sunday, well out of know where she calls us Saturday
night saying that she found a job(she didn't have a job before but was
looking for one) and they are making her work this Sunday, we talked
to her for a little bit and told her to trust God and tell them that
she can't work this Sunday but after we said that she never replied,
BONES! And she can't get confirmed this Sunday because it's general
conference so I guess it will be in 2 more weeks if we can do that.

In this area we have Spanish and Portuguese investigators and members
so we also have to speak in Portuguese and that's always fun, I pretty
much just speak Spanish because I don't know how to speak Portuguese
and they speak back in Portuguese so it's a little bit weird but the
languages are very similar so we can understand then and they
understand us also elder Frei knows a few sentences.

That's about it,

Love
Elder Pugmire

No baptism this week.

Hola a todos,

We had a good week. We started out by going to the temple with our
roommates and that was really fun and spiritual, it's been a while
since I went to the temple, during the session there were other elder
and sisters that went and one of the companionship was the sign
language missionaries and one of them was deaf so they had a thing in
sign language and that was also pretty cool to see. After the temple
we went and explored down in Manhattan, that was also really fun.

So the title is pretty self explanatory, we were suppose to have a
baptism, Amado was gonna get baptized last Saturday but last second
they went out of town and weren't able to be baptized on Saturday and
they didn't come to church either so we pushed the baptism for this
weekend, so we are gonna have 2 baptisms this weekend Amado and
Jeyuri, they are both really awesome 12 year old kids and have a
desire to follow Jesus, they will be great members and examples to
their families especially Jeyuri because he will be the only member in
his family, but the other are learning.
So we are pretty excited for these 2 baptisms this Saturday it should
be awesome.

Last night we got 3 new investigators, they are also kids one of them
is 15 or 16 tho so she's not that young but the other are pretty
young, they are foster kids form El Salvador that live with Less
active member and we were able to share the restoration with them and
gave them all a Book of Mormon and invited them to read the first
chapter, the oldest girl (Rosa) said that she really likes reading and
asked if she can read on past chapter 1 we said of course, she then
said that she will read the whole Book of Mormon in a week because we
can only meet them on Sundays, I'm not gonna lie I do have a hard time
believing that she will actually do that in 7 days but I know that it
has been done before and if she actually does that it will be crazy
but super awesome jaja, I hope she does it! Also we working with these
kids gives us a perfect opportunity to work with the less active
member as well.

Also we celebrated elder santibanez birthday on the 4th so happy
birthday to him and everybody else in the family who had or will have
one this and last week.

Con amor,

Elder Pugmire