Week 53 - San Roque 6/17/2012

well today i am going to focus on dad one because we dont get to talk on fathers day and i had some weird things happen this week that really got me thinking so to start i am so grateful that you served a mission and that you have raised me the way that you have always willing to teach me how to do something new even if you didnt know everything about the thing we were doing you were always ready to help even when i dint ask for help. so this week has been a little different leading up to my first baptism in my mission its been amaizing thinking about all the things that need to happen for this and since i have never had a baptism before i didnt really know what needed to happen we went to our intverview and i hadnt filled out the paper yet for our investigator so the interview didnt happen and i thought dad always used to remind me to bring the papers i needed for priesthood meetings and things so that would have made things go a little smoother but luckily it still happened i pulled a few strings for our investigator and even though the interview is supposed to be a week before the baptism it ended up being the same day as the baptism so ya fun experience but saturday is where i really want to focus when the actually baptism and interview happened i dont think i have ever been more stressed in my entire life as i tried to organize the young women for their activity and extend new callings to people for sunday everything just seemed to fall on one day kind of bad planning but it still all happened in the morning we left at about 6;30 to go to our investigator for one last visit before here interview then we went home ate breakfast and headed to the church in Tolosa for her interview witch i knew she would pass she is amazing but just until she finally went into the room i was completely stressing out that i messed something else up but once she was in i was calm and i got to spend a little time helping the district Young Womens activity actually happen since they had no one to preside i just thought how did all of these YW come here and not one of their dads came with them so weird to me but luckily my branch president showed up and he was the presiding since he has keys and i dont but ya so then i was relieved when our investigator came out of the interview with a huge smile on here face and she told me she didnt want to bear her testimony during the baptismal service but she wants to do it during sacrament meeting i was like are you sure and she just said yes which is since wierd because she is completly shy and half the time wont even say a prayer during calss on sunday but she was sure so i said ok but then she joined the YW activitie and we helped out a little but then i started talking to the District YW president who served a mission with dad and she started talking to me about what happened to here after her mission since she got married right away after getting home and to a non member who to this day is still not a member and she started talking about president Andaya because he was the branch mission leader in one of her areas during her mission and she told me she feels like it is a sign and since she knows president Andaya she told me she is going to request that i transfer to her branch because she thinks that i am the Elder that is going to baptize her husband i dont know what you did dad but whatever you did she remembers you as a great missionary and for some reason thinks the same of me i just hope i can live up the expectation that you have set in her mind now the other members in her branch all wnt me to transfer there to and i dont know what will really happen but if it does happen i want to really thnk you for what you did and the time you gave to serving the lord for two years and letting people know who we are as a family and i truely hope that through the things i do in these two years that God has given me i hope to do all things that he would have me do even if it means i stay in the same zone my whole mission in order to help these people who see me so highly because of you mahal kita tay gusto ko mgpasalamat sayo para lahat ng binigay mo sa akin salamt po para ang example mo at gusto ko mgsabi sayo nga malakas ang ibig ko para sayo sana alaala mo yan thank you dad i miss you and cant wait to see you next year.