This week was crazy! (I’m starting to discover that every
week is crazy on the mission) me and Elder A did a split with another
companionship that works on the other side of the city on Friday, and while
I was in the other area they talked with a woman on the street, entered to
teach a lesson to discover that the house had live 5 less active people living
there with 2 actives that are attending another neighboring ward because their friends
go there. Anyway, turns out that they have a nine-year-old Brother that hadn´t
been baptized yet! He already knew everything (growing up in the church and
all) so he went straight to the waters of repentance on Sunday. On Saturday we
did another split with the elders of the neighboring ward where they attend, so
I ended up not even teaching him, but he lives in our area so it technically
counts as a baptism for me.
Anyway, at the same time we found out that 2
of their cousins that live in the other ward haven’t been baptized either,
so the other missionaries ran over there, taught them everything and they were
baptized too. We did all three baptisms in the same service. Was really
cool, the less active members in the family are all really excited to come back
to church, in the two families makes like 10 people.
Crazy stuff, we just got to work extra hard with the
ward leaders so that these families get home and visiting teachers and
actually get visited so that they stay active this time, I’m finding here on
the mission that baptism is easy, retention is hard. And retention is
completely dependent on the willingness of the ward to integrate and visit
those who get baptized.
Love you all,
-Elder Leete
