Homeless Man at Stake Conference

The District

Ha - I am jealous that you are in Costa Rica.  - está bien ma no se precupe (escribo mientras lloro). =(

This week a family asked us to give a blessing to their baby that is 18 days old and was born 2 months early. I have now given two blessings to newborns and both experiences were very spiritual. After we gave the blessing, the baby had fallen deeply asleep. After we gave the blessing, we talked to the family (which was part member) about the spirit and the blessing of having it in your life. Halfway through the discussion the grandfather stumbled in drunk and so we talked a little about repentance. =) One of the little boys was the Mexi version of Owen; fun little guy. I had to give him a hug as we took off.  

President Flores is going around the mission and speaking in all the Stake conferences. He talks about a scripture and then has all the missionaries go up and sing a hymn. I did it once in Parras. Yesterday, the stake is bigger than the building so they had two sessions with leadership meetings in between. It was six hours of Stake Conference because he had the missionaries do our bit in both meetings. That means we got to hear the talks twice. Ha - but it was actually a really good meeting, and the jokes were funnier the second time. 

We all had to wake up early to get there. During the second session you could look around the room and find elders with their heads nodding and fast asleep. I woke up one time to a message from another elder laughing at me. 

In the conference a homeless man found his way in and started wandering around asking for money. The men escorted him out but apparently someone gave him some money because twenty minutes later he came back in with a coke. 

There was a guy that visited Parras while I was there. He was a new convert and super stoked about the church. Well he lived in Valle Verde and I saw him there and he gave me a big hug. Well, he moved this week to one of the areas in my district. I saw him at the conference and we sat by him.  

I did my first baptismal interview this past week. The man was 60 years old and looked like a Mexican version of Lyle Reese. He was very humble and ready.   

I love seeing the photos of Costa Rica, (4 countries that you have visited while I have been gone, maybe more, haha make it to 8).   

I got to be taking off.

Speen